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Internet
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Blind & Visually Impaired People
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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How Kenyans on Twitter Use Visuals as a Form of Political Protest
Kommunikation.Medien, issue 12 (2020), 27 pp.
"The growth of the Internet in the last two decades has helped increase political and civic en-gagement and scrutiny. The growth of a digital economy in Kenya has led to the emergence of a vibrant online community with 89.7 % of the population having access to the Internet. This paper examines how K
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Contagious Protests
World Bank Group (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores the spillover of protests across countries using data on nonviolent and spontaneous demonstrations for 200 countries from 2000 to 2020. Using an autoregressive spatial model, the analysis finds strong evidence of “contagious protests,” with a catalyzing role of social media.
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The Augmented Archive: History in Real Time. An Archaeology of Images of the Egyptian Revolution
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 5092-5107
"This study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a media-archaeological approach in both theory and practice: The media artist Kaya
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Digital Citizenship Toolkit
Key Guidance
MinorMatters; National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (2020), xiv, 185 pp.
"This Digital Citizenship Toolkit (DCT) is an attempt to introduce key concepts related to digital citizenship while taking into account the local socio-economic realities, technology adoption patterns, societal actions and other considerations. For young people, in particular, the demarcation betwe
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Evaluating Hashtag Activism: Examining the Theoretical Challenges and Opportunities of #BlackLivesMatter
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2020), pp. 197-216
"This paper argues for the reexamination of hashtag activism from the theoretical frameworks of liveness and appropriation. Scholarly discussions of online activism have, for the most part, focused on if and how technology revolutionizes social and political movements. Going in a different direction
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Leading Protests in the Digital Age: Youth Activism in Egypt and Syria
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiii, 244 pp.
"This book explores in detail new protest organisation and mobilisation strategies of young activists in the digital age with the aim to identify the tactics that worked well against those creating high risks in the context of digitally supported protests. Focusing on Egyptian protests as well as pe
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Redes sociales y ciudadanía: Hacia un mundo ciberconectado y empoderado
Top Insights
Huelva: Grupo Comunicar Ediciones; Alfamed (2020), 847 pp.
"Esta es una obra miscelánea que se adentra, desde múltiples perspectivas, en las interacciones entre educación y comunicación por medio de la influencia global de las redes sociales. En un contexto hiperconectado, pero no necesariamente ‘empoderado,’ resulta esencial la formación en compet
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Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 276 pp.
"This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, considering issues of access,
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Activismo mediático híbrido: Ecologías, imaginarios, algoritmos
Bogotá: Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 245 pp.
"[Esta publicación] investiga y reflexiona sobre las complejidades, ambigüedades y vacíos del activismo digital. Partiendo de un trabajo de campo sobre movimientos sociales, colectivos y partidos políticos en España, Italia y Méijco, Emiliano Treré desentraña la naturaleza híbrida del activ
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Tecnologías digitales: Miradas críticas de la apropiación en América Latina
Buenos Aires; Montevideo: CLACSO; RIAT (2019), 405 pp.
Personal Data: Political Persuasion. Inside the Influence Industry - How it Works
Berlin: Tactical Tech (2019), 121 pp.
"This guide categorises data-driven campaigning methods to loosely reflect how value is created along the data pipeline, from acquisition (asset), to analysis (intelligence) to application (influence)." (Page 3)
#meinung #macht #digital #plattformkapitalismus
ila, issue 426 (2019), pp. 4-40
"WhatsApp und Facebook werden auch in Lateinamerika massiv genutzt, vor allem aufgrund ihres vermeintlich kostenlosen Charakters. Auch dort wird das Problem der rechten Meinungsmache und der Fake News diskutiert, denn die Tatsache, dass sich die Leute heute vor allem über Werbeplattformen informier
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L'internet au Maroc: Militantismes, sociabilités et solidarités numériques
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 211 pp.
Brazil’s Digital Resistance Against Corruption
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 13 pp.
"From 2008 to 2010, 3.6 million Brazilians took part in the “Ficha Limpa” movement to impact political corruption by ensuring that anyone who runs for office has a “clean record.” This case study on the combination of a grassroots social movement paired with the Avaaz global web movement’s
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Social Media in Egypt: Impacts on Civil Society, Violent Extremism & Government Control
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 7 pp.
"Throughout this policy brief, we vet the use of social media in a major Middle Eastern country - Egypt - where the youth took to the streets to express frustrations that lasted almost a lifetime. While social media helped topple autocratic dictator, Hosni Mubarak, it played the role of Pandora’s
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Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.
"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro
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The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web
Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press (2019), 312 pp.
"A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies." (Publisher description)
The Online Public Sphere in the Gulf: Contestation, Creativity, and Change
Review of Middle East Studies, volume 53, issue 2 (2019), pp. 190-199
"This introductory essay sets the stage for this special issue, which explores how online media has changed the Arabian Gulf region's politics, economies, and social norms. It provides an overview of the most important themes, arguments, and findings tackled in the four essays in this issue, as well
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Authoritarianism, Digital Dissidence and Grassroots Media in the Middle East and North Africa Region
CyberOrient, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 4-27
"As an introduction to this special issue of CyberOrient, this text provides an insight into ongoing research in studies of digital layers of revolutions, digital communication, and dissidence in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region. Providing a short overview of the latest development
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Online Activism in Latin America
New York; London: Routledge (2019), ix, 317 pp.