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Chinese Crisis Communication in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Discourse Analysis of 'People’s Daily' News Articles in Response to Threatening International News Coverage

Maximilian Ernst, Cesare Scartozzi, Ceinwen Thomas, Wang Yigong
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 169-193
"This paper examines China’s international communication strategy during the initial phase of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the spring of 2020, Western governments and media began criticising the systematic lack of transparency and accountability in the Chinese political system in relation to t ... more
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Chinese Discourse Power: Aspirations, Reality, and Ambitions in the Digital Domain

Kenton Thibaut
Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2022), 32 pp.
"This report provides a framework for understanding China's discourse-power ambitions [...], the strategy China has developed to achieve them, and an initial assessment of the successes and limitations of these efforts to date. The report begins by tracing the evolution of China's conception of disc ... more
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Media Assistance in Burma’s Reform Decade

Jane Madlyn McElhone
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 8 pp.
"Despite the grim outlook, media development efforts in Burma between 2010 and 2020 may be instructive not only for donors pondering the way forward, but also for media assistance efforts in other countries in transition. This report, part of the Center for International Media Assistance’s “Medi ... more
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Should we fear China’s brave new digital world?

K. Buysse, Dennis Essers
Brussels: National Bank of Belgium (2022), 33 pp.
"This article starts by taking a closer look at the general characteristics of China’s digital economy. Some of its strengths and weaknesses are further illustrated by two relevant case studies. First, we show that China is a front runner in the digitalisation of financial services (digital paymen ... more
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China’s 'Digital Silk Road' Enters the Western Balkans

Stefan Vladisavljev
Association for International Affairs (AMO) (2021), 30 pp.
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China's Projection of Soft Power in Terms of Constructive Journalism: A Media Content Analysis of Constructive News Coverage of South Africa by China Daily and South China Morning Post in 2015 and 2018

Franki Jenkins
Transcience, volume 12, issue 1 (2021), pp. 24-43
"China is an increasingly major player in the latest global economic configuration. As a formerly developing nation, China has the potential to view the world through a lens distinctive from current Western hegemonies in its news media and soft power strategies. China has already invested heavily in ... more
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Disinformation and Fake News

Shashi Jayakumar, Benjamin Ang, Nur Diyanah Anwar (eds.)
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xii, 158 pp.
"While much has been said about individual disinformation campaigns in specific countries, this book offers a panoramic view of how these campaigns are conducted, who they target, and how they are spread. By bringing together research on specific countries and international data mined from questionn ... more
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Made in Hollywwod, Censored by Beijing: The U.S. Film Industry and Chinese Government Influence

PEN America (2021), v, 64 pp.
"Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing describes the ways in which the Chinese government and its ruling Chinese Communist Party successfully influence Hollywood films, warns how this type of influence has increasingly become normalized in Hollywood, and explains the implications of this influence ... more
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Pacific Crises: COVID, Climate Emergency and West Papua

Philip Cass, David Robie (eds.)
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 27, issue 1-2 (2021), pp. 1-174
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Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology

Lonán Ó Briain, Min-Yen Ong (eds.)
New York City: Bloomsbury Academic (2021), 272 pp.
"The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific. These technologies bequeathed media broadcasters with a profound authority over the ways we engage with musical culture. Broadcasters use this power to promote distinct cultural tra ... more
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Media and Disaster Risk Reduction: Advances, Challenges and Potentials

Rajib Shaw, Suvendrini Kakuchi, Miki Yamaji (eds.)
Singapore: Springer (2021), xiii, 249 pp.
"The media is considered to be of utmost importance in all phases of disasters, before, during and after, with different types of media having different proactive roles to play in disaster risk reduction. Before disasters, they play essential roles not only in bringing early warning to people but al ... more
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Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns

Asia Centre (2021), 8 pp.
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Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema

Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), ix, 301 pp.
"Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today ... more
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Status of Development Communication Research: An Examination of the Recent Trends in the Philippines

Marife R. De Torres, Emely M. Amoloza, Pamela A. Custodio, Anna Roffel O. Lozada, Marielle J. Pasuquin, Crina E. Tañongon
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 59-72
"This study is a response to the challenge of Development Communication (DevCom) scholar Felix Librero to analyse the status and trends in UP Los Baños DevCom research that may help in reinvigorating the research thrust of the college attuned to the needs of time. As a rejoinder to previous efforts ... more
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Digital Authoritarianism and Nonviolent Action: Challenging the Digital Counterrevolution

Matthew Cebul, Jonathan Pinckney
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2021), 23 pp.
"This report examines how use of newer and emergent technologies affects nonviolent action campaigns. It identifies two significant related challenges and presents evidence of these dynamics at work in two digital autocracies, China and Russia." (About the report)
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Information Bedlam: Russian and Chinese Information Operations During Covid-19

Edward Lucas, Jake Morris, Corina Rebegea
Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2021), 20 pp.
"Based on a literature review through January 2021, evaluated at an expert seminar, this policy brief provides a baseline analysis of changing tactics, narratives, and distribution strategies in Russian and Chinese information operations (IOs) relating to the covid-19 pandemic. Key findings: China c ... more
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Understanding How Young Cambodians (15-30 Year Olds) Use Media and Information: Key Findings

BBC Media Action (2021), 6 pp.
"Social media is the most popular form of media, consumed by 87% of 15-30 year old Cambodians. Nevertheless, traditional mass media (television and radio) remain important, particularly for more vulnerable groups. For example, TV usage is higher amongst women, those from rural locations, and those f ... more
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Assessing Suicide Reporting in Top Newspaper Social Media Accounts in China: Content Analysis Study

Kaisheng Lai, Dan Li, Huijuan Peng, Jingyuan Zhao, Lingnan He
JMIR Mental Health, volume 8, issue 5 (2021), 13 pp.
"This study aims to explore the characteristics and quality of suicide reporting by mainstream publishers via social media in China. Via the application programming interface of the social media accounts of the top 10 Chinese mainstream publishers (eg, People's Daily and Beijing News), we obtained 2 ... more
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State of the Digital Nation: The Digital Rights Report 2020

Foundation for Media Alternatives (2021), 121 pp.
"We structured the report by beginning with an overview of the digital environment in the Philippines in 2020 before delving into the impact of technology on human rights: the key events, challenges and accomplishments, then a forecast of 2021 and 2022. These are divided into the following key thema ... more
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Buchmarkt China 2020

Buchinformationszentrum (BIZ) Peking (2021), 58 pp.
"Dieser Bericht besteht aus drei Teilen. Im ersten Teil finden sich Informationen über den chinesischen Bucheinzelhandel im Jahr 2020, auf Basis einer im Januar 2021 veröffentlichten Marktanalyse von Open Book. Der zweite Teil enthält Branchenstatistiken der chinesischen Regierungsbehörden, die ... more