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Social Media in Political Communication
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Media Assistance
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Political Resistance
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Chronically ill People
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Agricultural Radio Programmes
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Land Property, Land Grabbing, Land Reforms
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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Samizdat
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Catholic Church and Communication
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Radio Fe y Alegría (Venezuela)
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Radio Quillabamba (Quillabamba, Peru)
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Mutirão Brasileiro de Comunicação (Catholic Media Congress, Brazil)
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Children's Radio Programmes
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Cinema
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Community Development: Role of Communication & Media
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ALER
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Media Assistance: Community Radios
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Conflict Prevention, Mediation & Reconciliation: Role of Media
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Radio for Development
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Weibo (Microblogging Website, China)
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WhatsApp
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups: Reporting & Media Representation
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Nonprofit Journalism, Nonprofit Media
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Social Capital
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Civic Education: Use & Role of Media
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Educación Popular
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Mobile Learning
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Environmental Journalism
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Local Communication & Media
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Media Assistance: Elections
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BBC Media Action
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Media Assistance: Radio
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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Media Literacy: Youth
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Socialist Media Systems
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Law, Legislation, Judiciary (General)
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Media Governance
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Radio Law & Regulation
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Regulatory Bodies
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Television Law & Regulation
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Emruz (Website, Iran)
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Migrants & Refugees: Tailor-Made Media Products & Information Services
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Music as Means of Political Communication
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Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
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Martín-Barbero, Jesús
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Accountability & Transparency
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Socialism
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Public Budgets, Participatory Budgeting
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Political Transition and Media
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Public & State Television
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Youth Radio Programmes, Youth Radio Stations, School Radios
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Everyday Life
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Social Functions & Effects of the Media
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Fundamentalisms (Religious)
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Islam and Communication
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Muslim Digital Media & Online Communities
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Research in Media & Communication
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Participatory Action Research
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Corruption & Combating Corruption
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Social Change
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Social Justice
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Society & Media, Media Sociology
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Digital Television
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Open Source Software
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Television
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Television Programming, Programme Structures & Programme Policies
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Non-Western Communication Approaches
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User-Generated Contents
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Youth Cultures, Youth Milieus, Youth Identities
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The Importance of Participation in Development Through Community Radio: A Case Study of Nkhotakota Community Radio Station in Malawi
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (2016), pp. 45-61
"This article examines the role of participation in development through community radio. Ordinary people participate in community radio through programme production, financing, management and the daily operations of the station. This enables them to define the development problems faced by their com
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Guide to Reporting on Civic Space: Media Toolkit
CIVICUS (2016), 21 pp.
"This guide helps to define what civic space is, its threats, challenges and the pivotal work being done across the world to protect and promote civic space. It seeks to identify, refine and explain the different groups and processes involved. Most importantly, it provides story ideas, angles, and p
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Who Participates? Audience and Participants in Interactive Shows
Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights (2016), 23 pp.
Media and Political Participation in North Africa
Fondation pour les Études e Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI) (2016), 29 pp.
Medienbildung und Teilhabegerechtigkeit: Impulse der Publizistischen Kommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz zu den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung
Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz (2016), 30 pp.
"Eine umfassende Medienbildung ermöglicht es, die Prinzipien der katholischen Soziallehre auch in Bezug auf digitale Medien wahrzunehmen. Einzelne wie gesellschaftliche Gruppen können so zu einem souveränen Umgang mit Phänomenen der Digitalisierung wie mit digitalen Medien befähigt werden. Medi
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Mechachal: A Preliminary Assessment of Online Debates in Ethiopia. Report One
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) University of Oxford (2015), 35 pp.
"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 16 pp.
"Egypt’s plummeting press freedom is in part a result of the many ways in which the state can put pressure on independent media under Egyptian law. While the January 2014 constitution contains clear protections for the media (including, under Article 71, bans on censorship and surveillance), many
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Global Media Forum Conference Documentation 2014: From Information to Participation - Challenges for the Media
Bonn: Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (2015), 172 pp.
Speaking Up for the Suffering (br)other: Weibo Activism, Discursive Struggles, and Minimal Politics in China
Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 4 (2015), pp. 513-529
"In order to offer a more nuanced account of the relationship between online media and politics, this article proposes a theoretical framework that pays attention to discursive struggles, identifies strategies to contest hegemonic discourses, and employs a broadened notion of politics, referred to a
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Die Entfaltung der E-Demokratie
In: Länderbericht Korea
Eun-Jeung Lee (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), pp. 145-158
"Die Entfaltung der E-Demokratie legt die Probleme der demokratischen Praxis in Südkorea offen: da sich die Bürger durch die politischen Institutionen nicht repräsentiert fühlen, suchen sie neue Wege, ihre Meinung zu äußern. Dabei sind die Netizens den politischen Akteuren und staatlichen Stel
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Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement
New York: Routledge (2015), xix, 236 pp.
Final Evaluation: Democracy and Development in Action Through Media and Empowerment (DAME), 2012-2014
Search for Common Ground (2015), vii, 57 pp.
"1. The DAME project has contributed to its overall objective of ‘strengthening the democratization process in Timor-Leste’ and to its specific objective of ‘enhanced engagement between NSAs, State authorities and their constituencies’ in the development process. 2. Most effective were the a
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Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism
Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2015), xiii, 366 pp.
"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West
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Theorizing Citizenship in Citizen Journalism
Digital Journalism, volume 3, issue 5 (2015), pp. 704-719
"Citizen journalism has become a prominent term referring to a variety of newsgathering and reporting practices conducted via a range of new digital technologies. The scholarly literature on citizen journalism, however, has tended to concentrate on its significance for journalism theory and practice
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.
"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi
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Comunicación para el cambio social: La participación y el empoderamiento como base para el desarrollo mundial
Barcelona: Icaria Editorial (2015), 255 pp.
"El inicio del siglo XXI ha venido marcado por los debates que, en el plano internacional, están sometiendo a revisión la comunicación para el desarrollo con el fin de proponer otras alternativas como comunicación para el cambio social o comunicación para el empoderamiento ciudadano y ecosocial
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Internet e mobilizações sociais: Transformações do espaço público e da sociedade civil
São Paulo: Plataforma Democrática; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2015), 146 pp.
Radio Listening Clubs in Malawi as Alternative Public Spheres
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 13, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 105-120
"Many people in rural areas in Malawi lack access to information due to illiteracy and the unavailability of reliable sources of information. There is also an absence of a proper forum where rural ordinary people can express their views and have their voices heard. However, in communities where ther
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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.
"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co
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Social media as a heteroglossic discursive space and Kenya's emergent alternative/citizen experiment
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 66-81
"This article critically reflects on how social media platforms such as Twitter (read here as a heteroglossic text and space) enable and encourage public participation in wider national conversations. The article explores this through the work of key bloggers/activists and citizen journalists, refle
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