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Reporting under fear and threats: The deadly cost of being a journalist in Pakistan and India

Sadia Jamil, Prabhjot Sohal
World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 2 (2021), pp. 5-33
"The journalists’ right to perform their watchdog role and to do their routine jobs without fear of being killed, kidnapped, harassed, and attacked is a topic of utmost importance for freedom of the media and freedom of expression. However, in the past decade, journalists’ killings across the gl ... more
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Communication Infrastructure and Community Mobilization: The Case of Gram Vaani’s Covid-19 Response Network for the Marginalized in India

Hua Wang, Aaditeshwar Seth, Mira Johri, Esha Kalra, Arvind Singhal
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 73-86
"In this article, we employed communication infrastructure theory (CIT) to analyze Gram Vaani’s (“Voice of the Village”) Covid-19 Response Network in India. We reviewed key CIT components (i.e., storytelling network and communication action context) and their applications in civic engagement, ... more
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Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), xvii, 397 pp.
"This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Outlining the genealogy and history of the field, it then investigates the possible new directions and obje ... more
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Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition After 2011

Roxane Farmanfarmaian (ed.)
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xv, 426 pp.
"This edited volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and h ... more
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Monitoring Media Pluralism in the Digital Era: Application of the Media Pluralism Monitor in the European Union, Albania, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia & Turkey in the Year 2020

Konrad Bleyer-Simon, Elda Brogi, Roberta Carlini, Iva Nenadic, Marie Palmer, Pier Luigi Parcu, Sofia Verza, Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha, Mária Žuffová
European University Institute; Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) (2021), 167 pp.
"[...] The MPM2021 covers, on this occasion, 32 countries, 27 EU and 5 non-EU (Candidate countries) [...] The results of the MPM2021 show an increase in the risk level for all the areas that the Media Pluralism Monitor analyses: Fundamental protection, Market Plurality, Political Independence and So ... more
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USAID-BRAC Bangladesh Digital Ecosystem Activity: After Action Review Report

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC); Light Castle Partners (2021), 50 pp.
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Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift

Lisa Schirch (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 239 pp.
"Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, So ... more
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Gender Mainstreaming in the Media: The Issue of Professional and Workplace Safety of Women Journalists in Nepal

Laxman Datt Pant
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Sadia Jamil, Baris Çoban, Bora Ataman, Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 194-210
"Media sector, in Nepal, has been vibrant and it is flourishing across all media outlets with about 1,000 newspapers, 600 radio stations, about five dozen television channels and more than 2,200 online news portals currently in operation across the country. Despite such an impressive figure, the rel ... more
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Deviance from the Ethical Standard of Reporting Child Sexual Abuse in Daily Newspapers of Bangladesh

Asibul Islam Anik, Muhammad Ibrahim Ibne Towhid, Syed Shariful Islam, Md. Takit Mallik, Shabnam Azim, Md. Golam Rahman, M. Atiqul Haque
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, issue 8: 200 (2021), 11 pp.
"This study revealed that more than 40% of news stories on child sexual abuse (CSA) cases did not follow the ethical standard of reporting. Episodic CSA cases were more unethically reported in newspapers, compared to the thematic stories (42.8% vs. 11.6%). Approximately 37% of news stories disclosed ... more
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Online Survey on Youth, Social Media, and Violence in Sri Lanka

Prasanna Perera, Malini Balamayuran, Tania Alahendra, Srimal Bandara
London: British Council (2021), 103 pp.
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Hate Speech 2020

Tina Gogoladze
Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2021), 32 pp.
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Post-regime-change Afghan and Iraqi media systems: Strategic ambivalence as technology of media governance

Mohammed A. Salih
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 2 (2021), pp. 228-245
"This article investigates the governance of post-US invasion Afghan and Iraqi media systems by analyzing provisions pertinent to public broadcasting, licensing, and defamation in 14 laws and policy documents in the two nations. The author argues that the results point to a regime of regulatory ambi ... more
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Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela

Saumava Mitra, Marte Høiby, Mariateresa Garrido
Journalism Practice, volume 5, issue 1 (2021), pp. 80-98
"Between 2012 and 2016, UNESCO registered 530 deaths of journalists. They also published a statistic showing that television journalists were the most killed, followed by print media, radio and online journalists. Hinted in this statistics is the need to understand the relationship between the mediu ... more
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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism

Pallavi Guha
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 142 pp.
"Hear #metoo in India examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment feminist activism in India. Including 75 interviews with rural and subaltern feminist activists and journalists working in urban and rural regions of India, the book proposes a nuanced framework of agenda ... more
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Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach: The Global Scale and Scope of Transnational Repression

Nate Schenkhan, Isabel Linzer
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2021), 74 pp.
"This report is the product of an effort to understand the scale and scope of “transnational repression,” in which governments reach across national borders to silence dissent among their diaspora and exile communities. Freedom House assembled cases of transnational repression from public source ... more
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Unruly Images: Representing India in the Calwer Bilder-Tafeln zur Länder- und Völker-Kunde (1883)

Philippe Bornet
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 7, issue 2 (2021), pp. 55-86
"This article focuses on a work published in 1883 by a German Christian press associated with a missionary society. The book provides a visual panorama of all the world’s cultures in 1,690 engravings. Most images were reproductions of material that had initially appeared in a variety of other cont ... more
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Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones

Max Schleser, Xiaoge Xu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiii, 275 pp.
"This book explores contemporary approaches to mobile storytelling, with contributions covering mobile education, news and screen storytelling, creative practice research, and the impact on vulnerable communities and social innovation. With 18 original chapters, Schleser and Xu bring together intern ... more
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Religious Minorities in Online Spaces: Research on their Experiences in Pakistan

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2021), 31 pp.
"Our findings, combined with the individual statements we collected from our participants paint a bleak picture of the online experiences of religious minorities in Pakistan. It is pertinent to not only encourage reflection amongst society at large, but also to call on the state to take responsibili ... more
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How Information Disorder Affirms Authoritarianism and Destabilizes Democracy: Evidence, Trends, and Actionable Mitigation Strategies from Asia and the Pacific

Michael Buehler, Ed Schatz, Sameen Ali, Christopher Green, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
Washington, DC: USAID; Integra Government Services International LLC; Asia Emerging Opportunities (AEO) Activity (2021), 130 pp.
"Section 2 of this report provides an overview of information disorder in Asia and the Pacific and describes how it destabilizes democracy and strengthens authoritarianism. After situating information disorder in Asia and the Pacific in its historical context, Section 2 examines which actors 1) spre ... more
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Unshackling Expression: A Study on Laws Criminalising Expression Online in Nepal

Bhaktapur (NP): Body & Data; Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 28 pp.