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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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The Impact of Digital Media on the 2019 Indian General Election

Ronojoy Sen, Katharina Naumann, Vani Swarupa Murali

Singapore: Institute of South Asian Studies;Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 28 pp.

"The 2019 Indian general election saw the widespread and innovative use of digital media and technology. Most political parties employed digital media extensively for campaigning and voter mobilisation. This extensive use of digital media was due to nearly half of India’s 900 million eligible vote ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor India

Reporters Without Borders;Data Leads (2019), 1360 pp.

"The Media Ownership Monitor – India finds out that while the ownership of media seems fairly plural at the national level, it is highly concentrated when one zooms into the regional level. More importantly, prominent national players have ceded their position of eminence at the regional level, wh ... more

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Digital Economies at Global Margins
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Mark Graham (ed.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London; Ottawa: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), x, 378 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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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

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Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies: Publics See Mobile Phones and Social Media Bringing Certain Benefits to Them and Their Societies. But These Views Are Paired with Widespread Concerns About Their Impact on Children

Laura Silver, Aaron Smith, Courtney Johnson, Kyle Taylor, Jingjing Jinag, Monica Anderson, Lee Rainie

Pew Research Center (2019), 92 pp.

"Surveys conducted in 11 emerging and developing countries across four global regions [Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia; South Africa and Kenya; India, Vietnam and the Philippines; and Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon] find that the vast majority of adults in these countries own – or have access to – a ... more

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Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media
Inspiring Practice

Greta Gober

International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), 2nd ed. (2019), 110 pp.

"The Handbook showcases IAWRT members’ experiences and best practices for working towards advancing gender equality in and on the media in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, India and Uganda." (Publisher description)

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The Evolving Indian Media Market: Succeeding Through Localisation

Chanpreet Arora

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 44 pp.

"India, with about 1.3 billion people, has a teledensity of 91% with 1.7 billion mobile connections and 700 million unique subscribers. There are 525 million internet users led by mobile internet. Mobile, therefore, is now the primary screen in India. It is disrupting media consumption patterns as i ... more

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Participatory Communication Approach for Rural Development: Evidence from Two Grassroots Community Radio Stations in Rural India

Dhanraj A. Patil

Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development, volume 29, issue 1 (2019), pp. 98-110

"The traditional approach of communication for rural development (RD) was greatly influenced by the dominant paradigm of development. The retort against this paradigm gave birth to the participatory approach of communication wherein the common people in rural areas were considered as the ‘subjects ... more

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Vulnerable Landscapes: Case Studies of Violence and Disinformation

Megan Ward, Jessica L. Beyer

Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2019), 19 pp.

"Disinformation existed in the past, but the growing ubiquity of social media grants political actors increasing capacity to spread dangerous rhetoric and imagery in their pursuit of power. Incendiary content has the potential to catalyze mob violence, riots, and vigilantes taking the law into their ... more

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Truth Vs Misinformation: The Collective Push Back. South Asia Press Freedom Report 2018-19

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2019), 83 pp.

"In 2018, South Asia was declared by the IFJ as the most deadly region in the world for media workers, which most brutally demonstrates the reality faced by far too many in the industry. Nowhere was this more acutely felt than Afghanistan with eight journalists and four other media workers killed, a ... more

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Community Radio for SDGs

New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India;One World Foundation India (2019), 205 pp.

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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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Towards a Safer Cyberzone: A Study on Gender and Online Violence in Tamil Nadu

Geeta Ramaseshan, Sudaroli Ramasamy et al.

IT for Change (2019), 21 pp.

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Walking on Eggshells: A Study on Gender Justice and Women's Struggles in Malayali Cyberspace

J. Devika, Chithira Vijayakumar et al.

IT for Change (2019), 39 pp.

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Getting it Right Online: Young Women's Negotiations in the Face of Cyberviolence in Karnataka

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan et al.

IT for Change (2019), 52 pp.

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Born Digital, Born Free? A Socio-Legal Study on Young Women’s Experiences of Online Violence in South India

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan, Nandini Chami

IT for Change (2019), 49 pp.

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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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The Community Radio in Kashmir: A Way Forward

Ruheela Hassan

International Journal of Communication and Media Studies (IJCMS), volume 9, issue 2 (2019), pp. 61-72

"In India, the campaign to legitimise community radio began in mid-1990s, soon after the Supreme Court of India ruled in its judgment of February 1995 that “airwaves are public property. Though the approval for setting up of Community radio stations in India was granted in 2002, it is yet to devel ... more

Digital Economies at Global Margins Top Insights

Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism Inspiring Practice

Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media Inspiring Practice

Digital Economies at Global Margins
Top Insights

Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism
Inspiring Practice

Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media
Inspiring Practice