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Zensur: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium

Nikola Roßbach (ed.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2024), 611 pp.
"Das vorliegende Handbuch präsentiert erstmals den Stand der Zensurforschung aus einer interdisziplinären, transhistorischen und globalen Perspektive. Nach begrifflich-theoretischen Grundlagen werden zentrale Akteure und Handlungsfelder der Zensur behandelt: Politik, Religion, Wirtschaft, Kunst, M ... more
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Disinformation Debunked: Building Resilience Through Media and Information Literacy

Divina Frau-Meigs, Nicoleta Corbu (eds.)
London: Routledge (2024), 329 pp.
"The book highlights the underlying stakes that are involved in the fight against disinformation, from producing smart tools to generalizing their use beyond the journalistic profession. It considers the MIL theories and methodologies at work in the digital era, especially from the perspective of di ... more
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News deserts in Ukraine: Mapping localities without local news

Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2024)
"First of all, following a reform in 2020 that reorganised Ukraine’s districts, merging many of them to form larger ones, the situation on the map is not critical. There are indeed "unhealthy districts", but the overall situation is better than it could be. With the exception of the temporarily oc ... more
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Dialogue with the Dictator: Authoritarian Legitimation and Information Management in Putin's Russia

Hannah S. Chapman
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2024), xvi, 253 pp.
"Dialogue with the Dictator illuminates the ways in which authoritarian regimes structure interaction between citizens and leaders to simultaneously manage information dilemmas and build regime legitimacy. In doing so, it demonstrates the conditions under which managed participation can reinforce or ... more
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Narratives of conflict: Russian media’s evolving treatment of Ukraine (2013–2022)

Ecaterina Locoman, Richard R. Lau
Media, War & Conflict (2024), 23 pp.
"This article scrutinizes Russian state-run TV narratives over critical junctures – before the 2013 Euromaidan protests, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the periods leading up to and following the 2022 invasion – to illuminate how political agendas, historical narratives, and public percep ... more
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Media diversity activism in Serbia: Mapping actors and activities

Jovanka Matic
Media Diversity Institute (2024), 33 pp.
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Journalists in the midst of full-scale war: Report on Ukraine

Ievgeniia Oliinyk, Tetiana Gordiienko, Dariya Orlova et al.
Human Rights Platform; Solidarity Fund PL (2024), 80 pp.
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Digital Rights Violations: Annual Report 2023-2024

Ena Bavcic, Tijana Uzelac, Adina Florea et al.
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) (2024), 153 pp.
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Fostering Bottom-Up Censorship From the Top-Down: Nationalism and Media Restrictions

Nicole Anderson, Aerin Commins, Jenifer Whitten-Woodring
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 4 (2024), pp. 869-890
"From US President Donald Trump’s Tweet labeling news media “the enemy of the people” to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s establishment of a politically appointed Media Authority, media freedom is under threat in democracies and nondemocracies alike. According to Freedom House, in 20 ... more
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Locking down the windows: A new phase in the fight for press freedom in Russia

Berlin: JX Fund (2024), 43 pp.
"For Russian civil society as well as for Western reporting independent exiled media are playing a central role: These media are a unique and precious voice that can still make its way to Russian audiences. They are also the foundation of Western reporting on Russia – without them, many internatio ... more
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Russische Medien außerhalb Russlands: Wer liest sie, und wozu benötigt man sie?

Ksenia Luchenko
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 10 pp.
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La historia oral en Argentina y Latinoamérica

Maylén Bolchinsky Pinsón, Facundo De Feudis Taboada, Francisco Santillán (comp.)
Mar del Plata: Facundo Felipe De Feudis Taboada; Teseopress (2024), 653 pp.
"Este libro reúne un conjunto de investigaciones que desde diferentes perspectivas, problemáticas y objetos de estudio hacen uso de la oralidad para la escritura de la historia. Es fruto del trabajo realizado en el XV Encuentro Nacional y IX Congreso Internacional de Historia Oral. Pasado, present ... more
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Fake News, Information Disorder in the Digital Age

Dren Gërguri
Prishtina: [author] (2023), 140 pp.
"The book is organized into four parts. Part I presents the phenomenon of information disorder, as well as explains why the term “fake news” should be replaced with adequate terms, depending on the method and type of manipulation. Also, there are pieces focusing on ChatGPT and the possible impac ... more
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Becoming a Target: Journalists’ Perspectives on Anti-Press Discourse and Experiences with Hate Speech

Cedomir Markov, Ana Dordevic
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 2 (2023), pp. 283-300
"In many parts of the world, journalists work in increasingly hostile environments. To better understand the characteristics and implications of hostility against the press in a hybrid regime, this study explores how journalists in Serbia perceive and experience anti-press hate speech. Based on 20 i ... more
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Media Freedom in North Macedonia: Fragile Progress. Fact-Finding Press Freedom Mission Report, Skopje, June 5-7, 2023

Skopje: Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) (2023), 37 pp.
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Social Media 4 Peace: Local Lessons for Global Practices

Adeline Hulin, João Brant
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 69 pp.
"The three countries [Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Kenya] provide evidence of online hate speech and disinformation affecting human rights offline. The evidence is not comprehensive yet clear enough to raise serious concerns. Online gender-based violence is also reported as critical in the ... more
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Serbia. Digital Threat Landscape: Civil Society & Media

Martijn Grooten, Ashley Fowler, Marc Shaffer et al.
Internews (2023), 13 pp.
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ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid

Adriana Helbig
New York: Oxford University Press (2023), 240 pp.
"ReSounding Poverty offers a microethnography of economic networks that impact the daily lives of Romani musicians on the borders of the former Soviet Union and the European Union. It argues that the development aid allotted to provide economic assistance to Romani communities, when analyzed from th ... more
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Free to Hate: How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-Wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria

Martin Marinos
Champaign: University of Illinois Press (2023), 391 pp.
"Martin Marinos applies a critical political economy approach to place Bulgarian right-wing populism within the structural transformation of the country’s media institutions. As Marinos shows, media concentration under Western giants like Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and News Corporation have l ... more
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Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives

Tendai Chari, Martin N. Ndlela (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 240 pp.
"This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics. Chapters employ a wide range of innova ... more