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'Hated Speech' and the Costs of Freedom in India

Preeti Raghunath

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), iv, 35 pp.

"[…] This project looks at experiences and observations of what it means to speak truth to power and receive hate as it is manifested through varying degrees of violence, across a variety of instances. Drawing on the responses of 15 interviewees, this qualitative research report presents 3 section ... more

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Let the Net Work: Internet Shutdowns in India 2022

New Delhi: SFLC (2022), 48 pp.

"The observations made in this report make emphatically clear the failings of the current legal framework in defending human rights in the context of access to the internet. As seen in the report, the disruption of access to the internet is triggered at the most menial of instances, including for re ... more

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Solidarity and Survival: The Story of South Asia. India Country Report

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2022), 8 pp.

"This document was produced by the IFJ and focuses on the following issues that the media faces in India: rise of government pressure and fear towards it, the growth of digital users, journalists´ lives lost during the pandemic, intimidation and harassment of the journalists across the country, the ... more

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Using Markers for Digital Engagement and Social Change: Tracking Meaningful Narrative Exchange in Transmedia Edutainment with Text Analytics Techniques

Roel O. Lutkenhaus, Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal, Jeroen Jansz, Martine P. A. Bouman

Digital Health, volume 8 (2022), pp. 1-18

"While social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for orchestrating large-scale communication campaigns, it is often difficult to track audience responses on various digital platforms over time and to ascertain if their engagement is aligned with the original intention. In this article, we shar ... more

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Message Testing in India for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: What Appeal and What Messenger Are Most Persuasive?

Rupali J. Limaye, Daniel J. Erchick, Kristian Balgobin, Alexandra Michel, Gretchen Schulz

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, volume 18, issue 6 (2022), 13 pp.

"Few studies have examined the relationships between the different aspects of vaccination communication and vaccine attitudes. We aimed to evaluate the influence of three unique messaging appeal framings of vaccination from two types of messengers on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in India. We surveyed ... more

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The Impact of a Direct to Beneficiary Mobile Communication Program on Reproductive and Child Health Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial in India

Amnesty Elisabeth Lefevre, Neha Shah, Kerry Scott, Sara Chamberlain, Osama Ummer et al.

BMJ Global Health, issue 6: e008838 (2022), 21 pp.

"Kilkari is the largest direct-to-beneficiary mobile communication programme in the world and has reached over 10 million women and their families across 13 states in India. Our study is the first randomised controlled trial conducted to date of a beneficiary mobile communication programme at scale. ... more

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Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’

Jacob Copeman, Mascha Schulz (eds.)

London: UCL Press (2022), xix, 359 pp.

"Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and part ... more

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New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power

Andreas Hepp, Juliane Jarke, Leif Kramp (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxv, 473 pp.

"This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the reso ... more

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Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms: An Experiment Within Facebook Messenger in India

Dante Donati, Victor Orozco-Olvera, Nandan Rao

Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 53 pp.

"This paper experimentally tests the effectiveness of two short edutainment campaigns (under 25 minutes) delivered through Facebook Messenger at reshaping gender norms and reducing social acceptability of violence against women in India. Participants were randomly assigned to watch video clips with ... more

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Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio

Sonya Surabhi Gupta (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 216 pp.

"This volume presents a comparative exploration of Dalit autobiographical writing from India and of Latin American testimonio as subaltern voices from two regions of the Global South. Offering frames for linking global subalternity today, the chapters address Siddalingaiah's Ooru Keri; Muli's Life H ... more

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Radio and Technology Adoption During India’s Green Revolution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Srinivasan Vasudevan

SSRN (2022), 39 pp.

"Adoption of innovative technologies is central to improving agricultural productivity. Farmers in developing countries rely heavily on social learning in adopting new technologies. Barriers to social learning such as heterogeneity or social fragmentation can therefore limit technology adoption and ... more

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Advancing Diversity: One Video at a Time

Video Volunteers (2022), 53 pp.

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Students’ Learning Experience During Covid-19: A Study of Open Universities in India

B. Phalachandra (ed.)

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);Commonwealth of Learning (COL), (2022), 44 pp.

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Know Your Rights: Guide for Journalists in India

Thomson Reuters Foundation (2022), 23 pp.

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Community Radio: An Emerging Platform for Awareness and Empowerment

Srivastava Shuchi

South Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, volume 4, issue 1 (2022), pp. 66-70

"Community radio plays an important role in the communication of a certain community and is a form of public-service broadcasting. It upholds the principles of participatory communication. The present study was conduct to know about the role of Radio Dhadkan, a community radio, in sensitizing and em ... more

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Fairwork India Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Bangalore; Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2022), 43 pp.

"There are two highlights to this year’s findings, firstly, the same three platforms that scored the first point for Fair Pay last year scored a point this year too. No other platform publicly committed, or provided sufficient evidence, to ensure that workers earn at least the hourly local minimum ... more

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Agroenvironmental narratives of transformative resistance: How participatory videos frame climate change in India

Pooja Ichplani

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 33-63

"Shifting attention from the United Nations’ focus on perpetrators of climate change to climate change victims, this qualitative content analysis uses a constructivist paradigmatic approach to examine the participatory video narratives produced by local media producers in rural India. Based on the ... more

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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change

Teresa Joseph

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.

"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna ... more

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Human Rights and Technological Change: Conflicts and Convergences After 1945

Michael Homberg, Benjamin Möckel (eds.)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2022), 392 pp.

"The volume analyses the ambivalent relationship between human rights and modern technologies since 1945. Tools of suppression or agents of emancipation? Modern technologies have become a major subject of human rights policy. Surveillance technology, the military use of drones, and the possibilities ... more

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‘Just Like Us’: Community Radio Broadcasters and the On-Air Performance of Community Identity

Bridget Backhaus

Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2022), pp. 581-594

"While community media audiences and broadcasters have themselves been the subject of research, how a sense of community identity is created through content production is less understood. This article details a critical discourse analysis of programming from ten different community radio stations wi ... more