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The danger of words: Major challenges facing Myanmar journalists on reporting the Rohingya conflict

Nyan Lynn
Media Asia, volume 47, issue 1 (2020), pp. 4-22
"Due to the fighting between the Myanmar Army and the Rohingya militant group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in August 2017, hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh. The Myanmar Army was accused of committing torture, atrocities, arson and gang-rapes against the ... more
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Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Tanner Mirrlees (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2020), v, 338 pp.
"Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change advances applied theoretical research on 21st century media imperialism. The volume includes established and emerging researchers in international communications who examine the geopolitical, economic, technological and cultural dimensions of 21st century me ... more
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Licensing Practices in a Global Digital Market

International Publishers Association (IPA); Norwegian Publishers Association (2020), 89 pp.
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"They Are Always Watching": Restricting Freedom of Expression Online in Thailand

London: Amnesty International (2020), 26 pp.
"One year into the premiership of Gen Prayut Chan-O-Cha, Thailand’s elected government is showing no signs of loosening its grip on freedom of expression online. Rather than breaking with the established pattern of criminalizing content critical of the authorities, the government is continuing to ... more
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Digital Democracy

International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 36, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-68
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Track, Trace, Expel: Reporting on China Amid a Pandemic

Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (2020), 18 pp.
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World Entertainment Media: Global, Regional and Local Perspectives

Paolo Sigismondi (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2020), xvi, 210 pp.
"There are still opposing and restraining forces to globalization processes taking place in media, and the global mediascape comprises international, regional and local markets, and global and local players, which in recent years have evolved at an uneven pace. By analyzing similarities and differen ... more
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Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia
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Tina Burrett, Jeff Kingston (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xii, 402 pp.
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#WhatsHappeningInThailand: The Power Dynamics of Thailand’s Digital Activism

Elise Thomas, Tracy Beattie, Albert Zhang
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 23 pp.
"In this report, we’ve analysed samples of Twitter data relating to the online manifestation of contemporary political protests in Thailand. We’ve sought to explore key ways in which the online manifestation of the protests differs from its offline counterpart. That includes how power dynamics o ... more
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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
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Christentum medial: Religiöse Kommunikation in digitaler Kultur

Esther Berg-Chan, Markus Luber (eds.)
Regensburg: Pustet (2020), 187 pp.
"Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle und Bedeutung von Medialität und Medienwandel im Christentum in Geschichte und Gegenwart aus interdisziplinärer und weltkirchlicher Perspektive. Wie gestaltet sich die Wechselbeziehung zwischen sich wandelnden Medien auf der einen Seite und christlichen ... more
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Media Representation of Environmental Issues in Malaysia

Mohamad Saifun Mohamed Saleh
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 26, issue 2 (2020), pp. 118-131
"This research investigates the types of environmental issues represented in Malaysian newspapers and Environmental Non-Government Organisation (ENGO) newsletters and examines the factors in the selection of stories by both social actors. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on 2050 environ ... more
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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
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When the News Takes Sides: Automated Framing Analysis of News Coverage of the Rohingya Crisis by the Elite Press from Three Countries

Hong Tien Vu, Nyan Lynn
Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 9 (2020), pp. 1284-1304
"Triangulating several methods including automated framing analysis and assessment of textual elements, this study examines how the elite press from three countries frames the Rohingya refugee crisis in 2017. Results from our framing and textual analysis show differences in how the press from the th ... more
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Long Trace: The Impacts of Tempo Joint Investigative Coverages (2016-2020)
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Qaris Tajudin et al.
Tempo Institute; Free Press Unlimited (2020), xi, 150 pp.
"At the start of 2016, Free Press Unlimited (FPU) and Tempo Institute, the NGO arm of Tempo Media Group, shared the ambition to create a new generation of investigative reporters and promote a culture of accountability throughout Indonesia in the design of “Investigating with Tempo”. In this pro ... more
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Theorising Media and Conflict

Philipp Budka, Birgit Bräuchler (eds.)
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), x, 339 pp.
"Theorising Media and Conflict is the result of a joint and interdisciplinary effort to set the theoretical and empirical agenda in theorising upon the complex relationship between media and conflict. By considering the theorisation work accomplished by the ‘Anthropology of Media’ series forerun ... more
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How We Worked from Home: Findings from the WFH Experience in Response to the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis in Malaysia

UNDP (2020), 41 pp.
"The findings from the study represent a mixed bag. There is much to celebrate—improved quality of life, enhanced productivity owing to factors such as reduced commute time, and, at scale, the evident reduction of the pollution load on the planet. Further, it sheds light on the possibility that gi ... more
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Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences

Hyejung Ju
Lanham, MD et al.: Lexington Books (2020), vii, 131 pp.
"Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audience provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas' transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV's transcultural mobility. Ev ... more
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ICT Aid Flows from China to African Countries: A Communication Network Perspective

Rong Wang, François Bar, Yu Hong
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25
"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014 ... more
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Myanmar: Censorship Harms COVID-19 Response

London: Amnesty International (2020), 4 pp.
"The Myanmar authorities should immediately lift curbs on the free flow of information to at-risk communities; ensure journalists, human rights defenders and activists can operate freely and without any harassment, intimidation, arrest, prosecution and imprisonment; and encourage rather than threate ... more