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The COVID-19 Story: Unmasking China's Global Strategy

Louisa Lim, Julia Bergin, Johan Lidberg
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2021), 7 pp.
"China has used Covid to benefit its global image through the activation of existing media dissemination channels overseas and the use of new tactics such as disinformation and misinformation. China’s largescale medical diplomacy campaign has also provided propaganda wins in many developing countr ... more
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Restrictions on Online Freedom of Expression in China: The Domestic, Regional and International Implications of China’s Policies and Practices

Harriet Moynihan, Champa Patel
London: Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs (2021), 21 pp.
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Game Production Studies

Olli Sotamaa, Jan Svelch (eds.)
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 355 pp.
"In Game Production Studies, an international group of established and emerging researchers takes a closer look at the everyday realities of video game production, ranging from commercial industries to independent creators and cultural intermediaries. Across sixteen chapters, the authors deal with i ... more
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Chinese Television in Africa

Alessandro Jedlowski
Theory, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 7-8 (2021), pp. 233-250
"On the basis of the results of an ongoing research project on the activities of the Chinese media company StarTimes in Nigeria and Côte d' Ivoire, this paper analyses the fluid and fragmentary dimension of the engagements between Chinese media and African publics, while equally emphasizing the pow ... more
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The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

Howard Tumber, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxvi, 582 pp.
"This companion brings together various concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism. The companion is theoretically and methodologically comprehensive and features various historical and critical approaches providing a full and incisive understanding of media, misinforma ... more
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Maria Ressa: Fighting an Onslaught of Online Violence. A Big Data Analysis

Julie Posetti, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva
Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2021), 44 pp.
"This groundbreaking collaborative case study is the most comprehensive assessment of online violence against a prominent woman journalist to date. We conducted a forensic analysis of the torrent of social media attacks on internationally celebrated digital media pioneer Maria Ressa over a five-year ... more
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5 Lessons Learned from Investing in Libraries for National Development

Ari Katz
www.ictworks.org (2021)
"Beyond Access was the first major global attempt to connect the international development and public library worlds. Taking the form of a series of projects in a dozen countries meant to help catalyze library development around national goals, the program operated from 2011 to 2018. Starting from a ... more
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Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts

Stefanie Felsberger, Ramesh Subramanian (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse ... 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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Towards Media Systems Framework in Asia Chinese and Korean Media on Framing the Initial COVID-19 Pandemic

Sookyung Cho, Ziyi Wang
International Communication Gazette, volume 83, issue 5 (2021), pp. 183-205
"Due to the relative lack of media comparison studies within Asian contexts, theoretical frameworks based in Western societies have been applied to knowledge production in the global South. Using a ‘most different’ design, this study compares the dimensions of media systems reflected in two Chin ... 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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The new frontline: Women journalists at the intersection of converging digital age threats

Julie Posetti
In: Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting
Kristin Skare Orgeret (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), 18 pp.
"The chapter identifies the new threats posed by digital developments and how they affect women journalists in particular. There are three main converging safety threats confronting women journalists in the digital age: online harassment and abuse against women journalists; orchestrated disinformati ... more
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Harmony Laws in Southeast Asia: Majority Dominance, Minority Repression

Bangkok: Asia Centre; Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 63 pp.
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An Ongoing Infodemic: How People in Eight Countries Access and Rate News and Information About Coronavirus a Year Into the Pandemic

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Anne Schulz, Richard Fletcher
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 37 pp.
"In almost all countries, news organisations are the single most widely used source of information about coronavirus. Furthermore, news organisations have become even more central to how people stay informed about coronavirus in the last year because, while overall reach has declined compared to ear ... more
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National Consultations on Solutions to Promote Media Viability While Preserving Media Independence: Consultations on Media Viability in Brazil, El Salvador, Indonesia, Jamaica, Lebanon, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal and Tunisia
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Amsterdam: Free Press Unlimited (2021), 33 pp.
"The intersection between media and politics remains very strong in several countries under study. In these conditions, there is often little transparency on media ownership and a lack of transparency on local funding sources of media. Relatedly, in some cases, a change in government policies was ra ... more
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The Dynamics of Digital Media in the Philippines: Legacies and Potentials

Media International Australia, volume 179, issue 1 (2021), pp. 3-95
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The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children

Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson, Tama Leaver, Leslie Haddon (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2021), xxv, 603 pp.
"This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challen ... 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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Special Report for 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair

China Publishers (2021), 44 pp.
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Die China-Berichterstattung in deutschen Medien im Kontext der Corona-Krise

Jia Changbao, Mechthild Leutner, Xiao Minxing
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2021), 61 pp.