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The Digital Exclusion of Women with Disabilities: A Study of Seven Low- and Middle-Income Countries
London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.
"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga
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Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century
London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2020), xv, 468 pp.
"This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some
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"This paper attempts to understand the phenomenon of hate speech and its potential to legitimise discrimination and promote violence against its targets. It lays out the interconnections between Islamophobia, hate speech and acts of physical violence against Muslims. The role of social media, especi
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Gazing Past the Glass Ceiling: Indian and South African Female Journalists’ Perceptions of Their Role and Power in the Newsroom
Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 57-74
"This article analyses female journalists’ perceptions of their own role, their power in the newsroom, their influence over the news agenda and the challenges they face on a daily basis in two large media-saturated countries and emerging democracies, India and South Africa. India and South Africa
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Images and Misinformation in Political Groups: Evidence from WhatsApp in India
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 1, issue 5 (2020), 12 pp.
"WhatsApp is a key medium for the spread of news and rumors, often shared as images. We study a large collection of politically-oriented WhatsApp groups in India, focusing on the period leading up to the 2019 Indian national elections. By labeling samples of random and popular images, we find that a
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The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxvi, 423 pp.
"An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars globally, alongside next-generation research leaders. Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area of c
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Role of Community Radio in Enhancing the Basic Mathematical Skills of Citizens in India
Asia Pacific Media Educator, volume 30, issue 2 (2020), pp. 211-233
"This study was carried out with the specific objectives of mapping the present level of mathematical skills of community members, and their radio listening behaviour preferences, with a view to making recommendations for the nature of radio programmes to be produced and broadcast among community me
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Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xii, 402 pp.
Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xiv, 281 pp.
"How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous c
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Farmers' Protest: Digital Activism on Facebook
Jeevadhara: A Journal for Socio-religious Research, volume 50, issue 295 (2020), pp. 47-54
"This study analyses the content of the messages on the Facebook Page 'Support for Farmers' from the premise of Habermas's 'Public Sphere'. The results show that the discussions in support of the farmers' protest on Facebook galvanized the public interest on the problematic issues faced by farmers a
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Digital Literacy Key Performance Indicators for Sustainable Development
Social Inclusion, volume 8, issue 2 (2020), pp. 151-167
"The concept of digital literacy has been defined in numerous ways over the last two decades to incorporate rapid technological changes, its versatility, and to bridge the global digital divide. Most approaches have been technology-centric with an inherent assumption of cultural and political neutra
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Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), 382 pp.
"The book draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four countries of South Asia---Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into policymaking,
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Understanding Misinformation on Mobile Instant Messengers (MIMs) in Developing Countries
Deep Insights
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2020), 27 pp.
"We conducted a mixed-methods research project in Nigeria, India, and Pakistan consisting of surveys, survey experiments, and semi-structured interviews, to better understand the spread and impact of misinformation, and in particular of misinformation on mobile messaging apps (MIMs). One of our goal
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The Missing Perspectives of Women in COVID-19 News: A Special Report on Women’s Under-Representation in News Media
Deep Insights
Gates Foundation (2020), 101 pp.
"This report was commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine women’s representation in COVID-19/coronavirus newsgathering and news coverage in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US. It is rooted in a computational news content analysis of 11,913 publications an
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Radio: Stronger and more vibrant than ever
UNESCO Courier, issue January-March (2020), pp. 6-27
Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2020), vi, 330 pp.
"Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. "Scapes, Sites, and Circulations" considers the spatial and circu
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Communicating the Sustainable Development Goals: A Toolkit for Community Radio
Key Guides
New Delhi: Seeking Modern Applications for Real Transformation (SMART); UNESCO; UNICEF (2020), 463 pp.
"This toolkit aims to assist community radio stations to understand each of the 17 Goals, engage with different actors and stakeholders, map policies and initiatives at the level of both, central and state governments in India, and provide ideas for design of content and outreach campaigns. After re
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A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India
PNAS, volume 117, issue 27 (2020), 10 pp.
"Using data from preregistered survey experiments conducted around recent elections in the United States and India, we assess the effectiveness of an intervention modeled closely on the world’s largest media literacy campaign, which provided “tips” on how to spot false news to people in 14 cou
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World Entertainment Media: Global, Regional and Local Perspectives
New York; London: Routledge (2020), xvi, 210 pp.
"There are still opposing and restraining forces to globalization processes taking place in media, and the global mediascape comprises international, regional and local markets, and global and local players, which in recent years have evolved at an uneven pace. By analyzing similarities and differen
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