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Of Blackouts and Bandhs: The Strategy and Structure of Disconnected Protest in India

Jan Rydzak
[author] (2019), 54 pp.
"State governments in India have executed approximately half of the world’s known network shutdowns – large-scale, deliberate disruptions of Internet connectivity, cell phone service, or social media. India is also a hotbed of collective action with widely varying degrees of organization and coo ... more
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Safety of Journalists Covering Conflict & Sensitive Issues

Kristin Skare Orgeret, Roy Krøvel (eds.)
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 103 pp.
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Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism
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Julie Posetti, Felix Simon, Nabeelah Shabbir
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 41 pp.
"This report examines how digital-born news media in the Global South have developed innovative reporting and storytelling practices in response to growing disinformation problems. Based on field observation and interviews at Rappler in the Philippines, Daily Maverick in South Africa, and The Quint ... more
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Facebook India. Towards the Tipping Point of Violence: Caste and Religious Hate Speech

Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Abishek Kumar, Priya Nair, Josh Greely
Equality Labs (2019), 65 pp.
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Mapping Digital Disinformation Around Elections: A Case Study of Pakistan’s 2018 General Elections

Talal Raza
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"The 2018 general election represented one of the first times digital disinformation occurred on a massive scale in Pakistan. This report examines different forms of disinformation that circulated online in the lead up to the 2018 elections and its impact on the country’s political discourse, and ... more
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Community Radio and Crisis Communication: A Study on the Reach and Effectiveness of Peridar Kaala Vaanoli 107.8 MHz

Mahalakshmi Selvaraj, Sunitha Kuppuswamy
Media Asia, volume 46, issue 3-4 (2019), pp. 102-116
"A community radio (CR) station stands as a lifeline for information and communication to the remote, marginalized and the most vulnerable during natural disasters like the Tamil Nadu Floods in 2015. As a result of this, a license was granted to allow the operation of an emergency community radio st ... more
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Afghanistan-Pakistan Media Affairs: Challenges and Opportunities

Rahimullah Yusufzai
Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 34 pp.
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Hinduism and Hindu nationalism online

Juli L. Gittinger
London ; New York: Routledge (2019), viii, 181 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Article 19; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.
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Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
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Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Nil Mutluer (eds.)
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A Study on State Policies and Media Coverage in Bangladesh and Myanmar on the Issue of Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees

Rock Ronald Rozario
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Master Thesis (2019), 32 pp.
"Bangladesh hosts about one million Rohingya Muslim refugees from Rakhine State of Myanmar, majority of them fled to the country following a deadly military crackdown on the community in response to Rohingya militant attacks on Myanmar security forces on August 25, 2017. The United Nations termed th ... more
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Supporting Democracy Through Digital Investigative Journalism in Nepal: Evaluation Report

Helsinki: Vikes (2019), 55 pp.
"Centre of Investigative Journalism (CIJ Nepal) has made a contribution to introducing and promoting investigative journalism and its activities need to be continued, particularly given the efforts of Nepal to democratize and the introduction on new governance structure in the country. Generally, th ... more
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Reporting Climate Change in the Global North and South: Journalism in Australia and Bangladesh

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Christen im Nahen Osten: Zwischen Martyrium und Exodus
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Matthias Vogt
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"2018: Irakische Christen kehren in ihre Dörfer zurück, aus denen der „Islamische Staat“ sie vier Jahre vorher vertrieben hatte. Hundert Jahre zuvor hatten Christen in der Region schon einmal alles neu aufbauen müssen. Während des Ersten Weltkriegs waren in Anatolien Hunderttausende vertrieb ... more
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Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media
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Greta Gober
International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), 2nd ed. (2019), 110 pp.
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An Analysis of the Impact of Madha Television: A Uses and Gratifications Approach

A. Christopher Joseph Cruz
Chennai: Madha Trust (2019), xiii, 120 pp.
"After the completion of five successful years of media ministry and while proceeding into the sixth year, it was decided by the Tamil Nadu Bishops' Conference (TNBC) and the core team of Madha TV to make a study on the impact created by Madha TV and the expectation of its viewers so that we can pro ... more
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Fear, trauma and local journalists: Cross-border lessons in psychosocial support for journalists

Michelle Betz, Paul Beighley
International Media Support (IMS) (2019), 16 pp.
"95 per cent of journalists killed in armed conflict are locally based journalists. While there has been increasing focus on the physical and digital safety issues these journalists face, there has been less attention towards the need for psychosocial support. Addressing psychosocial needs of local ... more
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Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases

Suman Mishra, Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)
Newark: Wiley (2019), ix, 246 pp.
"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa ... more
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Turkey: How to deal with threats to journalism?

Bora Ataman, Baris Çoban
In: Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Nil Mutluer (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), pp. 171-190
"Journalism has always been an unsafe practice in modern Turkey. However, ties between the political system and democracy have been severed by the recent witch-hunt following the most recent failed coup, in 2016, and the subsequent societal collapse triggered by the administration of the state of em ... more
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Social Media and Political Behaviour

Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) (2019), 70 pp.
"This collaborative report between the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung analyzes the growth of online social networking sites and apps in India and their role in shaping political preferences and attitudes in the recently concluded 20 ... more