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Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation

Nelson Ribeiro, Barbie Zelizer (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2025), viii, 205 pp.
"First, the book looks at media and propaganda through the lens of different disciplines, ranging across communication and media studies, journalism studies, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, history, gender studies, information and library science, literature, and platform studies. Recognizing t ... more
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Precarity and Political Pressure: Addressing Challenges Underming Media Freedom in Croatia

Article 19 Europe (2025), 20 pp.
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Journalism under Duress: Worlds of Journalism Study Report (Wave 3: 2021–2025)
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Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Corinna Lauerer, Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (eds.)
Munich: Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU), WJS Center (2025), 371 pp.
"This report presents findings from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS3), conducted between 2021 and 2025. In this iteration, we focused on journalists’ perceptions of risk and uncertainty in their profession and sought to identify key factors that shape how journalists navigate ... more
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Digital Warfare: Media and Technologies in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Nadiya Ivanenko, Nadia Zasanska (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 366 pp.
"Digital media and technologies remain unpredictable when we approach them as actors in armed conflicts. Artificial intelligence, drones, information leaks, hacking, propaganda and fakes become part of war reality. The contributors to this volume prompt us to focus on the virtual fronts of the Russo ... more
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Entertainment interspersed with propaganda: How nonlegacy-news accounts deliver explicitly political content to mass audiences on Russia’s most popular social network VK

Julia Kling, Florian Toepfl, Pascal Jürgens
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 18 pp.
"Previous research on political communication on Russia’s most popular social network VK has concluded that most users avoid news by not following legacy-news accounts. In this study, we expand the universe of scrutinized accounts with the mostfollowed non-legacy-news accounts (>100,000 followers) ... more
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Media Bias, Legislative Challenges, and the Fight for Freedom. The Future of the Media in Serbia – Facts and Trends

Valentina Sigeti, Teodora Koledin
Sarajevo; Novi Sad; Ljubljana: Mediacentar; Novi Sad School of Journalism; Peace Institute; South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2025), 50 pp.
"Alongside the rise of new technologies and the evolving global conditions in the media industry, journalism and media in Serbia will face numerous challenges, particularly in the areas of basic media freedom and journalist protection, based on the findings of this research: • There is no reliable ... more
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Support for Ukrainian Refugees Through Media: Summary of Project Achievements

Paris: UNESCO (2025), 10 pp.
"Through this project, UNESCO strengthened fact-based information exchange between refugees and host citizens as media audience. In doing so, it fostered social cohesion. The project assisted the media in their portrayal of the diversity of viewpoints, and governments in their response to the refuge ... more
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
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Sahana Udupa, Herman Wasserman (eds.)
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e ... more
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Responses to a changing media assistance landscape

Dani Madrid-Morales
Deutsche Welle (2025)
"The US has suspended funding for development aid, including for media. Meanwhile, China and Russia have been stepping up media assistance programs for years with a variety of strategies, explains Dani Madrid-Morales." (Introduction)
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Fact-Checking Organisations in the Balkans after US Funding Cuts

Manuela Anastasova
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme South East Europe (2025), 6 pp.
"The regional approach of the fact-checking organisations in the Balkans gives hope that they will be able to deal with crises. Milena Popovic from Istinomer shared the opinion that collaboration through joint investigations and coordinated responses to disinformation must be enhanced. In her view, ... more
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Donetsk Don’t Tell: ‘Hybrid War’ in Ukraine and the Limits of Social Media Influence Operations

Lennart Maschmeyer, Alexei Abrahams, Peter Pomerantsev, Volodymyr Yermolenko
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (2025), pp. 49-64
"Many fear that social media enable more potent influence operations than traditional mass media. This belief is widely shared yet rarely tested. We challenge this emerging wisdom by comparing social media and television as vectors for influence operations targeting Ukraine. This article develops a ... more
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Gender Profile of the Ukrainian Media

Zoia Krasovska, Lisa Kuzmenko, Tetiana Avdieieva
Women in Media (2025), 39 pp.
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Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance

Min Jiang, Luca Belli (eds.)
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (2025), xxix, 282 pp.
In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nat ... more
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State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens

Martin Echeverría Victoria, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Daniel C. Hallin (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiii, 336 pp.
"This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicia ... more
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International Disinformation: A Handbook for Analysis and Response
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Robert Kupiecki, Filip Bryjka, Tomasz Chłoń
Leiden: Brill (2025), vii, 283 pp.
"Dive into the world of disinformation with this groundbreaking book. Uncover how Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) shapes modern politics and society, and how it impacts your own life. Explore answers to key questions: What are the origins and characteristics of disinformatio ... more
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Analisi dell’attività delle comunità giovanili nella Chiesa Greco-Cattolica Ucraina e proposta di un piano di comunicazione per l'evangelizzazione dei giovani sui social media

Viktoriia Havaleshko
Roma: Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Tesi di Licenza (2025), 91 pp.
"Lo studio presentato in questo lavoro può essere considerato come un contributo al campo della pastorale giovanile nell'Arcidiocesi di Ivano-Frankivsk, nel contesto della Chiesa Greco-Cattolica Ucraina (CGCU). Particolare attenzione è rivolta all'uso dei media digitali come strumento efficace di ... more
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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (ed.)
Amherst College Press (2025), viii, 200 pp.
"Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin Ameri ... more
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Kulturtätige aus Belarus, Russland und der Ukraine zwischen Diaspora und Exil: Herausforderungen und Potenziale in den 2020er Jahren

Klara Koszarek
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2025), 66 pp.
"Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Entwicklungen der Diasporagemeinschaften aus Osteuropa, die in Deutschland und seinen östlichen EU-Nachbarländern seit 2020 an Größe und Bedeutung gewinnen – bedingt durch politische Krisen und Repressionen im autokratisch regierten Belarus und Russland u ... more
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Analysis of monetization tools for media, bloggers and media personalities in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine: Overview of the financial landscape for digital content creators

Arthur Papyan, Anna Barseghyan, Oleg Khomenok
Fojo Media Institute (2025), 49 pp.
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Journalists, Social Media and News Consumption

Ukrainian Analytical Digest, issue 16 (2025), 32 pp.
"This issue focuses on journalism and social media in Ukraine. The first two articles examine the safety of journalists in Ukraine during the war based on the Worlds of Journalism Study and assess how the security situation during the war influences the practice of ‘patriotic journalism.’ The fo ... more