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Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 239 pp.
"Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, So
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La communication de l'État en Afrique: Discours, ressorts et positionnements
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 360 pp.
Understanding News Coverage of Religious-Based Violence: Empirical and Theoretical Insights from Media Representations of Boko Haram in Nigeria
Journal of Communication, volume 70, issue 4 (2020), pp. 548-573
"Recent studies on conflict and terrorism news coverage have documented an ingroup bias as well as an increasingly negative discourse about Muslims in the wake of Islamist terrorist attacks. Yet, as most of these studies have focused on Western media and settings, the determinants of news media’s
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Social Media Dynamics in Boko Haram’s Terrorist Insurgence
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 15 pp.
"This policy brief analyses the use of social media by different groups affected by Boko Haram’s terrorist insurgence, including the group itself. The rate, speed, spread and belief which information from social media commands has changed theatres of war and amplified terrorist threats. The Nigeri
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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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Social Media in Africa: A Double-Edged Sword for Security and Development
Cambridge: UNDP; RAND Europe (2018), xii, 80 pp.
"Social media is used by al-Shabaab, Boko Haram and ISIL in Africa. The importance of cross-media communications to the strategies of all three groups is underlined by the existence of dedicated branches for media planning, namely al-Shabaab’s al-Kata’ib, Boko Haram’s Media Office of West Afri
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New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion: An African Perspective
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), xi, 173 pp.
Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria: Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and MEND
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiv, 256 pp.
"This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of confl
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.
"This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Wester
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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
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London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp
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More Than Propaganda, a Review of Boko Haram's Public Messages
Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies (ISS) (2017), 31 pp.
"Although not always consistent, Boko Haram has ensured its narrative is publicly disseminated, which is revealing for a group that is extremely secretive. Messaging creates awareness about the group and its activities, which can tie into recruitment. Messaging demonstrates a clear pattern of expand
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Global Activism on Facebook: A Discursive Analysis of 'Bring Back Our Girls' Campaign
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 450-464
"In April 2014, Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group, abducted over 200 Nigerian girls from the town of Chibok in Nigeria. The kidnapping caused global outrage and the local community responded by designing an online social media campaign they called "Bring Back Our Girls" that used Facebook and Tw
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How journalists survived to report: Professionalism and risk management in the reporting of terror groups and violent extremism in North East Nigeria
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson, Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 159-170
"The Boko Haram terrorism and violent extremism that ravaged North East Nigeria and Republics of Chad, Niger and Cameroons from 2009-2015 exposed weaknesses in the safety policy and protocols for local journalists in times and zones of tension in Nigeria. Boko Haram terrorists killed 30,000 people a
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As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xi, 189 pp.
"Seib traces how terrorism has proliferated and increased significantly in menace in the relatively brief period between the rise of al-Qaeda and the creation of Islamic State. With close attention to the linkages between media, religion, and violence, the book offers incisive analysis of how organi
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Boko Haram: Der Vormarsch des Terror-Kalifats
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 287 pp.
Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.
"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me
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Socio-Economic Incentives, New Media and the Boko Haram Campaign of Violence in Northern Nigeria
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 111-124
"This article seeks to analyse and explain the emergence of the extremists Islamist Boko Haram sect that is currently perpetuating a reign of violence in Northern Nigerian cities and factors that have aided its rise. It takes a look at the changing political and socio-economic situations in the coun
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