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What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities

Mariz Tadros (ed.)
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS); Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) (2022), xx, 332 pp.
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Assessment of the Media Sector in Bangladesh: Final Report

ME&A, Inc.; USAID (2022), 64 pp.
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Gender Equality and Media Regulation Study: Bangladesh

Qurratul-Ain-Tahmina et al.
Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2022), 108 pp.
"This study seeks to provide new knowledge and analysis about gender-equality related provisions in regulations, self-regulatory frameworks and policies concerning media in Bangladesh. It also explores their implementation and monitoring aspects. It seeks to provide clear recommendations and cite be ... more
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Responsible Reporting on Sexual Violence: A Review of Bangladeshi Print Media Practice

Shuprova Tasneem
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 25 pp.
"How did that impact the media's ability to tell this story? Did this period of protest have coverage that centred on survivors and the rights of women, or did the media fixate on voyeuristic representations of violence? Did the reports challenge rape myths and the culture of shame that demonstrator ... more
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Transformations in Afghan Media and Culture Through Cycles of Upheaval

Wazhmah Osman
Current History, volume 121, issue 834 (2022), pp. 135-140
"This article traces how the Afghan cultural, media, and arts sectors have gone through cycles of boom and bust in tandem with the country’s tumultuous history in recent decades, starting with the prewar golden era in the 1960s and 1970s, then focusing on the post-9/11 internationally funded media ... more
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Trust in the Internet

Ipsos (2022), 23 pp.
"An international survey reveals that Internet users' trust on the Internet has dropped significantly since 2019. That is among the key findings of a 20-country Ipsos survey released by The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany. Only six in ten (63%) Internet users on average across the 20 countries sai ... more
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Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic

Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), vi, 242 pp.
"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme ... more
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Know Your Rights: Guide for Journalists in India

Thomson Reuters Foundation (2022), 23 pp.
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Countering Digital Threats: Toolkit

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2022), 38 pp.
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Community Radio Enabling Women’s Empowerment in Remote Communities of India

Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Saidsudha Sugavanam, Ritu Srivastava
Bombay: Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Rhizomatica; Spoken Tutorial Project (2022), 49 pp.
"The objective of this study is twofold –firstly to understand how women have found self-expression through community radio as a frugal technology and how, in turn, it has helped them serve the community and empower other women in the community to find their voices. Secondly, this study examines h ... more
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Solidarity and Survival: The Story of South Asia. India Country Report

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2022), 8 pp.
"This document was produced by the IFJ and focuses on the following issues that the media faces in India: rise of government pressure and fear towards it, the growth of digital users, journalists´ lives lost during the pandemic, intimidation and harassment of the journalists across the country, the ... more
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Journalism safety and the actuality of achieving gender equality in the media landscape of Uzbekistan

Mukarram Otamurodova
European Scholar Journal, issue December (2022), pp. 13-15
"Uzbekistan faces socio-political changes in the last years and the impact of these turnouts are reflected in the media landscape of the country. Several cases show that the issues of gender equality and the safety of journalists are becomingmore threatening. Some journalists suffer from political p ... more
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Turkey Country Report

Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 27 pp.
"Since its ascent to power twenty years ago, the ruling AKP has tightened the screws on all forms of freedom of expression, both online and offline. It has introduced draconian laws, imposed internet restrictions, blocked content, and has arrested and intimidated critics on an unprecedented level. I ... more
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Mapping Open Data in Kyrgyzstan

Ion Marandici et al.
Internews; Zekalo (2022), 25 pp.
"New data sources related to socio-economic development should improve journalistic reporting. Still, despite an abundance of open data in Kyrgyzstan, journalists may face delays in getting quick access to important datasets. Goal: To facilitate the access to development-related information for jour ... more
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Nepal

Shachee Doshi, Susannah Horton, Ariel Magid, Craig Jolley
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2022), 92 pp.
"Nepal’s digital ecosystem does not yet meet the needs of all Nepalis and runs the risk of falling further behind. Over the past decade, mobile phones, and mobile internet have become increasingly widespread in Nepal; however, the government’s capacity to implement digital policies and solutions ... more
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Freedom of Expression: A Myth or Reality? A Case of Pakistani Television Journalists

Awais Hameed, Tabassum Saba, Ali Haider Saeed
Journal of Media and Communication Studies, volume 2, issue 2 (2022), pp. 1-16
"This study is aimed at investigating the impact of security threats on the freedom of expression of Pakistani Television (TV) journalists. It has been observed that a growing trend of curtailment of freedom of expression is becoming new normal in the country. One of the significant problems related ... more
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Afghan Media under the Taliban: Restrictions and Violations

Kobra Moradi
Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO) (2022), 48 pp.
"[...] Since returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban has imposed a new media control regime, which has three key features: restriction, gender-discrimination, and repression with impunity. First, the Taliban has passed several media policies, imposing extreme constraints on press freedom and ... more
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Attributing Public Ignorance in Vaccination Narratives

Samantha Vanderslott, Luisa Enria, Alex Bowmer, Abass Kamara, Shelley Lees
Social Science & Medicine, issue 307: 115152 (2022), 11 pp.
"Examples from Sierra Leone, Uganda, and India show how ‘ignorant public’ framings are used as explanation for vaccine hesitancy through assigned roles for institutions and publics, and the consequences this narrative has for vaccination encounters. These examples are based on ethnographic field ... more
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Using Markers for Digital Engagement and Social Change: Tracking Meaningful Narrative Exchange in Transmedia Edutainment with Text Analytics Techniques

Roel O. Lutkenhaus, Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal, Jeroen Jansz, Martine P. A. Bouman
Digital Health, volume 8 (2022), pp. 1-18
"While social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for orchestrating large-scale communication campaigns, it is often difficult to track audience responses on various digital platforms over time and to ascertain if their engagement is aligned with the original intention. In this article, we shar ... more
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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change

Teresa Joseph
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.
"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna ... more