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A Guide to Improving the Accessibility of Indian News and Newsrooms

Priti Salian

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 30 pp.

"I spoke to 14 journalists with disabilities in India who painted a vivid picture of the barriers they face to joining the industry, finding employment, and thriving in the workplace. And what affects these journalists translates into media products that reflect a lack of accessibility for our audie ... more

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Religious Populism, Cyberspace and Digital Authoritarianism in Asia

Ihsan Yilmaz, Raja M. Ali Saleem, Mahmoud Pargoo, Syaza Shukri, Idznursham Ismail, Kainat Shakil

Brussels: European Center for Populsim Studies (ECPS) (2022), 43 pp.

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Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond
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Anthony Le Duc (ed.)

Bangkok: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication (2022), xxvii, 343 pp.

"Despite the wide-ranging topics presented in this collection, this volume takes ‘communication’ as the keyword for the various research and reflections on the life and mission of the Catholic Church during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as post-crisis. The reader will readily recognize that what ... more

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Embedded authoritarianism: The politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir

Tawseef Majeed

Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 3 (2022), pp. 613–624

"The current article explores journalism practice amid waning press freedom in Indian Kashmir. Contextualising the recent renovation and introduction of authoritative new media policy 2020, the article maps the constant struggles of the journalists in the region. I consulted five working journalists ... more

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“Suddenly We Were the Story”: Women Journalists, the #MeToo Movement, & Online Misogyny in India

Paromita Pain

In: Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments

Lisa M. Cuklanz (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), 17 pp.

"This study looks at how online misogyny is impacting the work of women journalists in India. Journalists here are encouraged to have a social media presence and publicize stories online, but organizations do little to protect them from the relentless trolling and misogyny that characterizes the onl ... more

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Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes: Case Studies for Theory and Practice
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Lauren B. Frank, Paul Falzone (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxxiii, 354 pp.

"This book lays out the history of entertainment-education and discusses the boundaries of what counts as entertainment-education and narrative persuasion, includes both authors who work within academia and authors who are practitioners, and chapters focusing on developed and developing countries; d ... more

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Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts

Stefanie Felsberger, Ramesh Subramanian (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.

"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse ... more

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How to cover hate crimes and violence when government sources fail

Rachel Chitra

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 22 pp.

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Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech

Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone, Peter Hervik (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2021), 266 pp.

"The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale. Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary ... more

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How Close Should We Get? Media and Conflict

Antje Bauer (ed.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 101 pp.

"Those working in media face plenty of challenges when it comes to handling issues around conflict more sensitively. In some countries, these difficulties could include forced or unsolicited loyalty, a lack of information, or physical and psychological threats. In others, challenges could arise from ... more

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Fake News is Bad News: Hoaxes, Half-Truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism

Ján Visnovský, Jana Radosinská (eds.)

Intech Open (2021), 260 pp.

"The publication is focused on the ways fake news, disinformation, misinformation and hateful statements are spread across society, predominantly within the online environment. Its main ambition is to offer an interdisciplinary body of scholarly knowledge on fake news, disinformation and propaganda ... more

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Improving Environmental Outcomes Through the Media: An Evaluation of How Support for Journalism Changes Environmental and Climate-Related Policy and Practice

Cathy Shutt

Internews;Earth Journalism Network (EJN) (2021), 157 pp.

"In recent years, Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) has invested time and resources to better understand the results of the support it provides to journalists and media outlets. EJN already uses a suite of methods to gauge the impact of its efforts to improve environmental media, such as e ... more

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Cyber Capabilities and National Power: A Net Assessment

London et al.: International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (2021), 174 pp.

"This report sets out a new methodology for assessing cyber power, and then applies it to 15 states: Four members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance – the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; Three cyber-capable allies of the Five Eyes states – France, Israel and Japan; F ... more

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Caste-Hate Speech: Addressing Hate Speech Based on Work and Descent

Murali Shanmugavelan

International Dalit Solidarity Network (2021), 33 pp.

"Caste discrimination remains one of the world’s most serious human rights issues. It is intrinsically linked with hate speech, but as this report has demonstrated, insufficient attention has been paid to the caste-based aspects of hate speech. All too often, caste-hate speech is allowed to contin ... more

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Listening to What Trust in News Means to Users: Qualitative Evidence from Four Countries

Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 50 pp.

"This report examines how people in Brazil, India, the UK, and the US view news media in their countries, the factors they use when determining whether sources are trustworthy, and what ‘trust in news’ ultimately means to them [...] While we note throughout the report areas of difference between ... more

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Overcoming Indifference: What Attitudes Towards News Tell Us About Building Trust

Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 69 pp.

"This report contains a range of findings about news audiences in each of the four countries [Brazil, India, United Kingdom, United States], focusing on audiences overall as well as different segments of the public categorised according to their degree of trust towards news brands in their country. ... more

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Media and Freedom of Expression

International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 37, issue 3 (2021), pp. 2-99

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Increasing Women’s Digital Literacy in India: What Works

Alexandra Tyers, Catherine Highet, Sara Chamberlain, Arjun Khanna

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 12 pp.

"The results of this review clarify that increasing women’s digital literacy depends not just on digital skills training, but on increasing their digital access and use. This is not a simple, linear process, and not just a case of distributing devices and data plans to women. There are several con ... more

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Strengthening Gender Sensitive Practices and Programming in Community Radio
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Kanchan K. Malik, Vinod Pavarala

Hyderabad: UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad (2021), 98 pp.

"[This publication] is a manual aimed at enhancing women’s participation and reducing gender inequalities in all aspects of the operations of community radio stations in India. This gender-sensitivity manual is an outcome of a project granted by the International Programme for Development of Commu ... more

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Religious Communication Amid the Pandemic

Religion and Social Communication, volume 19, issue 2 (2021), pp. 192-356

Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond Top Insights

Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes: Case Studies for Theory and Practice Inspiring Practice

Strengthening Gender Sensitive Practices and Programming in Community Radio Key Guidance

Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond
Top Insights

Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes: Case Studies for Theory and Practice
Inspiring Practice

Strengthening Gender Sensitive Practices and Programming in Community Radio
Key Guidance