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Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Bielefeld: transcript (2021), 430 pp.
"This book frames digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to critically partake in the digital transformation. Emphasizing a political and transformative significance of the term, this interdisciplinary publication gathers sc
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Explicating Engagement: An Exploratory Mapping and Critical Discussion of a Contested Concept
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 18, issue 1 (2021), pp. 244-265
"With the diffusion of the internet, media and communication research witnessed the emergence of a new term, ‘engagement’. Although, the term is widely used it is poorly defined and in need of explication. Through semantic network analysis, the analysis shows how traditions, as varied as audienc
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Serbia
Digital Frontiers Project USAID (2021), 58 pp.
"The Serbian government prioritizes digitalization. Serbia’s digital transformation accelerated in 2017 with the government’s focus on building a digital government, or “digitalization” as defined by Serbians, and Serbia’s participation in the Digital Agenda for the Western Balkans. As one
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Increasing Social Media Engagement: Statement vs. Question Research. Report on Global Results
Save the Children (2020), 8 pp.
"In certain countries around the world, people do tend to respond better to advertisements or social media “call outs” phrased either as statements or questions. Namely, three countries – Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nicaragua – demonstrated a preference for questions, while one country, Nepal,
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Conflict and Social Media: Activism of Civil Society for Peace Between India-Pakistan
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 15 pp.
"This policy brief examines the work of civil society activists struggling for peace by using social media around the world. Drawing from extensive field research, as well as the social media actions of activists and civil society members of India, Pakistan and beyond, this brief explains how the so
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Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), xv, 211 pp.
"To advance interdisciplinary understanding, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age outlines a communication-centered framework that articulates the intricate relationship between technology, communication, and contention. It systematically explores the influence of mobile technology on
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Retooling Politics: How Digital Media are Shaping Democracy
Cambridge; New York et al.: Cambridge University Press (2020), ix, 326 pp.
"Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: Digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, nongovernmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the e
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Co-designing convivial tools to support participation in community radio
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 18, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-61
"In this article, we draw on experiences from the Grassroot Wavelengths project that introduces an innovative peer-to-peer platform to support the creation and management of community radio stations. We offer insight into the practices of participation in community media, where the users influence d
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Communication publique, espace et citoyennete
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 290 pp.
Prosumidores y comunicación en la era digital
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2020), 107 pp.
Online Community Moderation
Key Guidance
Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 12 pp.
"This knowledge brief showcases RNW Media's experience with online community moderation. It explains what community moderation means, why we believe it is an essential component of our Citizens' Voice programme, and the strategies we have developed together with our moderators to guide them in the w
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Ciberactivismo, ejercicio de la ciudadanía y participación política en Internet
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2020), 198 pp.
"[...] El ciberactivismo emerge como una nueva forma de participación y movilización política, que pretende dinamitar los marcos de acción colectiva promoviendo la actuación de los ciudadanos dentro del espacio público. Dentro de la perspectiva de nuestra investigación, el ciberactivismo en C
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#UnderPressure: Digital Civil Society
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 56 pp.
"The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) supports civil society actors worldwide in their advocacy for democracy and peace, encourages dialogue within civil society and contributes to the protection of minorities and persons at risk. With the fellowships of the CrossCulture Programme (CCP), ifa
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Participatory Media Cultures: Virality, Humour, and Online Political Contestations in Kenya
Africa Spectrum, volume 55, issue 2 (2020), pp. 148-169
"The article seeks to discuss varied forms of citizen engagement in the era of Internet viral cultures, ranging from (1) the use of social media for online protest, characterised by political contestation and fleeting outbursts of anger and backlash in the Twittersphere, to (2) the appropriation of
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Developing a Civil Society Response to Online Manipulation
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2020), 30 pp.
"This document presents a vision for a grand, civil societal response to online manipulation: developing the capability to detect it; the coalitions to confront it, the strategies to prevent it, and the structures of cooperation and funding that are needed to do both across all the causes and issues
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Mediated Sociability: Audience Participation and Convened Citizen Engagement in Interactive Broadcast Shows in Africa
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 2985-3006
"This article examines what drives audience participation in interactive broadcast shows, with implications for the democratic potential of these shows as spaces of citizen engagement and public discussion. It makes three contributions, the first two to audience and media studies and the last to pol
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Digital Civic Engagement by Young People
New York: UNICEF Office of Global Insight and Policy (2020), 26 pp.
Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Kenya
Digital Frontiers Project USAID (2020), 42 pp.
"Kenya’s digital ecosystem has significant strengths not yet fully leveraged:
• Political interest in digital technology at national and county level: The Government of Kenya’s
(GoK) digital economy blueprint, ICT Masterplan, and eCitizen (government service platform for
Kenyan citizens and re
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Civil Society in the Digital Age in Africa: Identifying Threats and Mounting Pushbacks
Pretoria; Kampala: University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights; CIPESA (2020), 78 pp.
"The report documents the threats to civil society in the digital age by examining the legislative and regulatory framework in four countries in Africa: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. These countries were selected from the four main geographic regions of Africa, in order to provide a sense
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Political Participation in the Digital Age: An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany
Bielefeld: transcript (2020), 221 pp.
"This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the Internet is responsible for citizens' participation practices from being general, high-threshold, temporally constricted, and dependent on physical prese
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