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‘The Big Brother We Appreciate’ or a ‘mafioso’? The Emergence of Stereotypes Concerning China and the Chinese in Angola

Jaroslaw Jura, Kaja Kaluzynska, Paulo de Carvalho

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 251-271

"This article aims to analyse the process of emergence of China-related stereotypes in Angola, which have started to appear with an increasing number of Angolans establishing direct and non-direct contacts with the Chinese. The article investigates this issue based on the content of China-related ar ... more

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Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus

Gregory Price Grieve (ed.)

New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2018), viii, 232 pp.

"Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ethnographic research, and content analysis, as well as interviews with practitioners and cyber-communities. In addition to considering Buddhism in the ... more

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Communication, Culture and Ecology: Rethinking Sustainable Development in Asia

Kiran Prasad (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2018), ix, 199 pp.

"This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of cont ... more

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Journalist Social Media Practice in China: A Review and Synthesis

Guowei Jian, Ting Liu

Journalism, volume 19, issue 9-10 (2018), pp. 1452-1470

"The growing influence of social media on journalistic work has attracted scholarly attention worldwide in recent years. However, due to cultural and language barriers, we lack comprehensive understanding of the journalist social media practice in non-Western countries. To help fill this gap, this s ... more

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A History of Journalism and Communication in China

Yunze Zhao, Ping Sun

London; New York: Routledge (2018), 176 pp.

"Arranged in chronological order mainly, this book examines the initial development of Chinese journalism in ancient times, which from then manifested strong political attributes. After the Opium War in 1840, missionaries and businessmen from the West started to set up newspapers and periodicals in ... more

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Failing to Prepare? Journalism Ethics Education in the Developing World: The Case of Cambodia

Fergal Quinn

Journal of Media Ethics, volume 33, issue 1 (2018), pp. 50-65

"This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in the developing world and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases within such programs, whose bases ... more

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Architects of Networked Disinformation: Behind the Scenes of Troll Accounts and Fake News Production in the Philippines
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Jonathan Corpus Ong, Jason Vincent A. Cabañes

Newton Tech4Dev Network;University of Leeds;British Council (2018), 74 pp.

"The study explains how strategists set campaign objectives based on input from their political clients, then delegate political marketing responsibility to a team of digital influencers and fake account operators. These operators infiltrate online communities, artificially trend hashtags to hijack ... more

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China's Media Go Global

Daya Kishan Thussu, Hugo de Burgh, Anbin Shi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 324 pp.

"As part of China’s ‘going out’ strategy, China is using its media to promote its views and vision to the wider world and to counter negative images in the US-dominated international media. China’s Media Go Global, the first edited collection on this subject, evaluates how the unprecedented ... more

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Case Studies on Paywall Implementation: Gazeta Wyborzca and Malaysiakini

Marius Dragomir, Dumitrita Holdis, Ian M. Cook

New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 27 pp.

"When Wyborcza.pl was launched back in 2008, besides its quality, one of the best things about it was that its content was freely accessible. Once the paywall was up in 2012, the publisher had to find a way to present this content differently. According to Bregula, this was the most important task w ... more

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Dangerous Disinformation

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue May (2018), pp. 23-38

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Toward Gender Equity: Women and Media in Cambodia

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2018), 45 pp.

"More men than women work in the media, including in management positions. Women have joined the industry in greater numbers in recent years, particularly through recruitment of university graduates; radio has the highest proportion of young women journalists. A higher proportion of women had full-t ... more

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Freer But Not Free Enough? Chinese Journalists Finding Their Feet in Africa

Iginio Gagliardone, Nyíri Pál

Journalism, volume 18, issue 8 (2018), pp. 1049-1063

"The high-profile appearance of Chinese media organizations in Africa has attracted considerable attention. How Chinese correspondents in Africa actually go about their work is, however, little understood. A posting in Africa gives journalists at Xinhua News Agency or China Central Television a degr ... more

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Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1. Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw, Philip N. Howard

Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute;Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s ... more

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An Unfavorable Business: Running Local Media in Myanmar's Ethnic States and Regions

New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 66 pp.

"Myanmar’s local media outlets face a variety of internal and external obstacles hampering their prospects for sustainability. Key among these today, and the focus of this report, are the business realities that every media outlet must tackle." (Introduction)

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Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar

BSR (2018), 60 pp.

"Facebook commissioned BSR to undertake a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the company’s presence in Myanmar. BSR undertook this HRIA between May and September 2018, using a methodology based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This assessment identifies and ... more

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Media Policy for Small Emerging Democracies: Distinctiveness, Vulnerabilities, and Development
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Cao Yuanyuan

Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Doctoral Thesis (2018), xiv, 239 pp.

"Media in small emerging democracies face multiple obstacles caused by “smallness” and the state of “late democratization.” “Smallness” raises the question of how to develop financial independence in these countries. “Late democratization” gives rise to the challenge of maintaining p ... more

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Digital Asia

Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2018), 40 pp.

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Myanmar Audience Study 2018: Myanmar’s Media from an Audience Perspective

Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen

International Media Support (IMS);Fojo Media Institute (2018), 23 pp.

"The study found that there is a widespread preference towards local media as people feel that these media outlets provide them with information relevant to their local communities and daily lives. Television is a preferred medium for consuming news but social media, and Facebook in particular, is c ... more

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Conflicting Coverage: Insights Into the Media’s Coverage of Conflicts in Myanmar

Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen, Zarchi Oo

International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 19 pp.

"From the analysis of one week of conflict coverage in May 2018, this study found that the media relies on a limited number of sources to cover conflicts. Stories are often reported with a single or no sources and elite sources are preferred over people who have experienced the conflict and its cons ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.

"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more

Architects of Networked Disinformation: Behind the Scenes of Troll Accounts and Fake News Production in the Philippines Top Insights

Media Policy for Small Emerging Democracies: Distinctiveness, Vulnerabilities, and Development Top Insights

Architects of Networked Disinformation: Behind the Scenes of Troll Accounts and Fake News Production in the Philippines
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Media Policy for Small Emerging Democracies: Distinctiveness, Vulnerabilities, and Development
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