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Good for Business: Creating Inclusive Media Businesses in Myanmar
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New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2020), [31 pp.]

"Our inclusion survey, conducted with 35 private media outlets operating in Yangon and in seven ethnic states and five regions, provides up-to-date inclusion and gender data about the sector. Among the findings: while many women work in media (they represent 33% of the combined staff of the 35 outle ... more

Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship Through Data

Larissa Hjorth, Kana Ohashi, Jolynna Sinanan, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, Fumitoshi Kato, Baohua Zhou

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 205 pp.

"In this book, we have investigated the evolving intergenerational media practices over three years to reflect on the quotidian (and often invisible) forms of care at a distance enacted as part of contemporary Digital Kinship. As we have explored, within different cultural contexts we are seeing div ... more

People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia

William Paul Forster

Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 4 pp.

"This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and education programmes to schools and villages in affected communities and p ... more

‘Let Us Breathe!' Censorship and Criminalization of Online Expression in Viet Nam

London: Amnesty International (2020), 77 pp.

"On 21 April 2020, Facebook announced a major shift in its content moderation policy in Viet Nam. Under this policy, it has increasingly complied with the Vietnamese authorities’ repressive censorship of online expression deemed critical of the state.3 Facebook has disclosed that it agreed to “s ... more

Licensing Practices in a Global Digital Market

International Publishers Association (IPA);Norwegian Publishers Association (2020), 89 pp.

Summary Report: Justice4her 2.0. Strengthening Rule of Law to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 7 pp.

"Justice4Her is a cross-sector, multi-stakeholder project of RNW Media and Qianqian Law Firm that seeks to strengthen the rule of law and reduce gender-based violence (GBV) towards women migrant workers in China. The project launched in 2016 and targets women migrant workers in Beijing, Shanghai and ... more

Introducing Vigilant Audiences

Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, Qian Huang (eds.)

Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2020), xiii, 342 pp.

"The authors engage with a range of cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to explore the actions of a vigilant digital audience — denunciation, shaming, doxing — and to consider the role of the press and other public figures in supporting or contesting these activities. In turn, the volume il ... more

Behind the News: Inside China Global Television Network

Merriden Varrall

Sydney: Lowy Institute for International Policy (2020), 24 pp.

"China’s efforts to use state media as a means to increase its soft power around the world have raised concerns in many quarters. With much fanfare in late 2016, China relaunched its global television network, formerly known as China Central Television, as a new global media brand, the China Globa ... more

Media and Information Literacy Education in Asia: Exploration of Policies and Practices in Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines

Masato Kajimoto, Misako Ito, Ming-Kuok Lim (eds.)

Bangkok: UNESCO Office Bangkok and Regional Bureau for Education in Asia and the Pacific (2020), 75 pp.

Ethnic Media Study: Media Habits and Media Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar

Aye Lei Tun, Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen

International Media Support (IMS);Fojo Media Institute (2020), 18 pp.

"The study examines content produced and distributed to ethnic minorities in Mon, Kayin and Kayah and looks into the news and media habits and understandings of the same groups. It consists of two different research efforts: a content analysis and a qualitative audience study. The content analysis f ... more

Information Ecosystem Assessment of First Time Youth Voters in Myanmar’s 2020 Election

Internews (2020), iv, 55 pp.

"Facebook is “best” source of information for elections, but television is still most trusted Among irst time youth voters, 83% of survey respondents cited Facebook as the best channel to receive elections information. In Myanmar, Facebook and the Internet are virtually interchangeable. Key Info ... more

Philippines: Initiative for Media Freedom

Internews (2020), 2 pp.

"The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the support of the American people. Internews and its partners work collaboratively to enhance democratic governance that provides ... more

Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities Around the World Make Sense of Climate Change
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Michael Brüggemann, Simone Rödder (eds.)

Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers (2020), xi, 270 pp.

"Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses. The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling ca ... more

Track, Trace, Expel: Reporting on China Amid a Pandemic

Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (2020), 18 pp.

Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
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Alan Finlay et al.

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2020), 268 pp.

"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose ... more

Social Media Monitoring April–May 2020

World Bank (2020), 4 pp.

How Do Indonesian Media Portray the 2019 Presidential Debate? A Study of Media Coverage in Urban Setting

M. Rinaldi Camil, Natasha H. Attamimi, Klara Esti

Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG);Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), vi, 47 pp.

"In this research, we found that: 1. The media tend to play safe during the 2019 presidential election. When addressing certain issues, the media rarely provided their own in-depth analysis based on certain values. They let the public decide by itself by bring debates and use comments from prominent ... more

Unshackling Expression: A Study on Online Freedom of Expression in Indonesia

Alghiffari Aqsa

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Cyrilla (2020), 27 pp.

"The situation of freedom of expression online in Indonesia affirms that Indonesia is shifting further from human rights and democracy. This is not much different from the situation in other countries in Southeast Asia which seem to be competing to be the worst in human rights and democracy. The shr ... more

Media and Messsages for Nutrition and Health: Assessing Media Appropriateness for Nutrition and Health–related Social and Behavior Change Communication in Four High Stunting–burden Provinces of Lao PDR

Nkosinathi V. N. Mbuya, Ramon V. Calleja et al.

Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2020), vi, 107 pp.

Unshackling Expression: Philippines Report

Foundation for Media Alternatives;Cyrilla;Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), 44 pp.

"It may be observed that, first, at the level of public perception, government actions to restrict free speech are often preceded by statements criticizing the media and foreshadowing a penalty or sanction, which are actually directed to the public and not the media, as if to prime the latter on the ... more