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Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia: An Anthology of Emerging and Contemporary Issues

Elira Turdubaeva, Evangelia Papoutsaki (eds.)
Lexington Books (2023), xiii, 365 pp.
"Central Asian post-independence media and communication industries, professional practices, education, persisting and evolving values, and traditions remain critically understudied with a notable scarcity of research and scholarly publications on the complex and increasingly changing communicative ... more
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Fertile Ground: How Africa and the Arab World Found Common Language with Russia on Ukraine: Analysis of the Pro-Russian Social Media Discourses

Jedrzej Czerep, Sara Nowacka
Warszawa: Polski Instytut Spraw Miedzynarodowych (2023), 94 pp.
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Balkan Media Assistance Program: A Case Study in Locally Led Development

Washington, DC: USAID (2023), 7 pp.
"This case study highlights the achievements of the Balkan Media Assistance Program (BMAP) made possible by the project’s use of such locally led development enabling tools as engaging in co-design and relying on local expertise during the planning and implementation phases of the project. Highlig ... more
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Mediensysteme in Deutschland und Russland: Handbuch

Alla G. Bespalova, Horst Pöttker (eds.)
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2022), 361 pp.
"Das Buch besteht aus zwei Teilen. Der erste enthält Stichwortartikel zu den Themenbereichen Presse, Radio, Fernsehen, Online-Medien, Agenturen und Medien im Allgemeinen. Im zweiten Teil werden Datentabellen und Grafiken präsentiert, die sich vor allem auf das Jahr 2015 beziehen. Dabei werden sowo ... more
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Qualitative study on priority audiences for public service media

Andres Jõesaar
Baltic Centre for Media Excellence (BCME); Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (2022), 30 slides
"The topic of the research: the role and importance of professional media and in particular public service media in the life of Russian-speaking population of Estonia. Study Objective: to understand how audiences shape the meaning and quality of media; the role of media and journalism in the society ... more
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Talking to Trolls—How Users Respond to a Coordinated Information Operation and Why They’re so Supportive

Darren L. Linvill, Patrick L. Warren, Amanda E. Moore
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 27, issue 1, zmab022 (2022), 19 pp.
"Through this research we gained insight into tactics employed by state-backed social media disinformation. With that goal, we explored user interactions with inauthentic Twitter accounts. We used multiple procedures to measure the ways in which users talked with and about the accounts employed by t ... more
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The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory

Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 515 pp.
"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver ... more
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Media Literacy and Disinformation Perception Survey

Tamar Kintsurashvili
Tbilisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2022), 37 pp.
"The aim of this research was to study media consumption habits among different age groups and geographical areas, as well as the public's vulnerability to various disinformation and manipulative narratives disseminated in Georgia. The first part of the research concerns media literacy competencies, ... more
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Tracking the Propaganda and Disinformation About Foreign Influence in Serbia. Case Study: Serbian Media on the Ukraine War

Beograd: CRTA (2022), 15 pp.
"The topic of the war in Ukraine dominated the media during the first three months of the war and completely marginalized all other topics. The most foreign actor reported on most in the media was Russia, while the countries of the West, the US, the EU, and NATO were far less noticeable. Although th ... more
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The Informational Dictator's Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship and Control in Russia and Belarus

Samuel A. Greene
PONARS Eurasia (2022), 9 pp.
"The findings described in this memo strongly suggest that "softer" strategies of media cooptation are more effective than harsher, more coercive approaches to media control. In Russia, where the Kremlin has-until very recently-used a combination of commercial pressure and political influence to pus ... more
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Handbook of Digital Inequality

Eszter Hargittai (ed.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2022), xii, 386 pp.
"International contributors assess a variety of key contexts that impact access to digital technologies, including contextual variations related to geography and infrastructure, as well as individual differences related to age, income, health and disability status. Chapters explore how variations em ... more
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A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation

Minna Horowitz, Stephen Cushion, Marius Dragomir, Sergio Gutiérrez, Manjón Pantti, Mervi Pantti
Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 5 (2022), pp. 843-865
"Public service media (PSM) are widely acknowledged as part of the variety of solutions to disinformation. The remit of PSM, formed around values of universality, equality, diversity, accuracy and quality, implies a responsibility to fight disinformation by producing fact-based news content and find ... more
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) Toolkit: A How-To Guide for USAID Missions

USAID; Digital Frontiers; DAI (2022), 107 pp.
"The Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) Toolkit is a step-by-step guide designed to help USAID Missions conduct high-quality research that will directly inform Mission strategic and programmatic decisions for digital development interventions. The DECA is the flagship initiative of the USAI ... more
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Long-Term Investments Pay Dividends in Ukraine

Antonina Cherevko, Maksym Dvorovyi
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 27 pp.
"International assistance actors have played an important role in supporting media reforms in Ukraine. Their long-term, continuous efforts planted the seeds for groundbreaking media environment changes during Ukraine’s democratic transition. International donors’ sustained engagement in Ukraine ... more
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Hungarian Capital in Foreign Media: Three Strategic Models of Influencing the Neighbourhood

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2022), 38 pp.
"This series of articles produced by local journalists follows the Hungarian money invested in media abroad, and also offers an insight into the influence exercised by the Hungarian government." (Introduction)
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The First Draft of History. Journalists: Witnesses Before the Hague Tribunal

Boro Kontic, Nedim Sejdinovic, Elvira Jukic Mujkic, Anida Sokol, Selma Zulic Šiljak, Dragan Golubovic
Sarajevo: Mediacentar (2022), 97 pp.
"The book was born out of the need to understand and convey the experience of journalists who testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Aiming to shed light on the insufficiently researched role of journalists and newspaper material before the ICTY, Media ... more
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Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability Across the Ukraine Response: A Snapshot

London: CDAC Network (2022), 19 pp.
"Key findings and recommendations on the main communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) barriers and gaps: Finding 1: There is strong rhetoric from international agencies to support local/national CCEA and work on more inclusive partnerships – but progress has been slow Finding ... more
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Ukrainekrieg auf Telegram: Rechtsextremer Knotenpunkt für Desinformationen und Verschwörungserzählungen

Mainz: jugendschutz.net (2022), 9 pp.
"Seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine im Februar 2022 nutzen Rechtsextreme die Ereignisse und Entwicklungen für ihre Propaganda. Dabei lassen sich sowohl pro-ukrainische als auch prorussische Positionierungen beobachten. Insbesondere werden gezielt Desinformationen und Versch ... more
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Owning the Conversation: Assessing Responses to Russian and Chinese Information Operations Around COVID-19

Vera Zakem, Edward Lucas, James Lamond
Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2022), 32 pp.
"Russia and China have created and amplified disinformation and propaganda about COVID-19 worldwide to sow distrust and confusion and to reduce social cohesion among targeted audiences. The United States government, the European Union, and multinational organizations have developed a series of inter ... more
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Putin's Disinformation & Misinformation Campaign

Jakub Ferencík
EUROPEUM (2022), 12 pp.
"Disinformation and misinformation have been amplified in the digital age. In order to combat their increasing presence in our everyday lives, we have to first educate ourselves on what disinformation is. In this post, Jakub Ferencik looks at this question in some detail, primarily by analyzing Vlad ... more