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The Shrinking Civic Space in East Africa
Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 19 pp.
Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp.
"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra
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Consumer Activism 2.0: Tools for Social Change
"To conclude, current Internet-based innovations, including Web 2.0 tools and the wherewithal to use these tools, have given consumers a new form of freedom, and voice. As such, they are more apt to start campaigns, expose social injustices, and demand change from the institutions concerned. We cont
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Revisiting Leadership in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-Enabled Activism: A Study of Egypt’s Grassroots Human Rights Groups
New Media & Society, volume 21, issue 5 (2019), pp. 1141-1169
"Scholars argue that contemporary movements in the age of social media are leaderless and self-organised. However, the concept of connective leadership has been put forward to highlight the need for movements to have figures who connect entities together. This study conducts a qualitative research o
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Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa
Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.
Digitalisierung braucht Zivilgesellschaft
Robert Bosch Stiftung (2019), 176 pp.
Civic Media Literacies: Re-Imagining Human Connection in an Age of Digital Abundance
Boca Raton, FL: Routledge (2019), xv, 171 pp.
"Civic life today is mediated. Communities small and large are now using connective platforms to share information, engage in local issues, facilitate vibrant debate, and advocate for social causes. In this timely book, Paul Mihailidis explores the texture of daily engagement in civic life, and the
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Media Cultures in Latin America: Key Concepts and New Debates
New York; London: Routledge (2019), x, 198 pp.
Communication in Citizen Science: A Practical Guide to Communication and Engagement in Citizen Science
Leuven: Scivil (2019), 58 pp.
"Citizen science is a vast field. It covers the spectrum of research approaches and offers different methods for engaging volunteers with research in a variety of ways. Common to every citizen science project is a need to communicate with the public effectively. This to recruit and retain citizen sc
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Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 151-176
"My focus in this chapter is on civil society mobilization in Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar, and particularly in Kanbauk, a village of about 1,500 households in the Tanintharyi Hills, eighty kilometres north of the regional capital, Dawei. In recent years, Kanbauk villagers have contended w
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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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Membership in News & Beyond: What Media Can Learn from Other Member-Driven Movements
Austin: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (2019), 45 pp.
"The traditional financial models for news are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival? We’re at a moment of profound transition and successive crisis for news. Our mission is to explore how membership models might help. A key takeaway
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Innovative Arab Media and the New Outlines of Citizenship: A Collaborative Vision Builds Stronger Journalism Across the Region
New York: Century Foundation (2019), 15 pp.
"In this report, I have provided a glimpse of the ways in which innovative media outlets act as political agents in their current contexts, through their expressed positions, their content, and the forms in which they publish. Further work is needed to more fully describe the editorial sensibilities
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#SpeakUp: Using Social Media to Promote Police Accountability in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies (ISS) (2019), 38 pp.
"Social media engagement alone can achieve limited results in promoting public accountability for police misconduct in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda but can and has served as a valuable tool in this endeavour. The percentage of the population in Africa that engages in discussions on social media platfo
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Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 241 pp.
"This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, thi
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Digital Activism Engagement Ecosystem: Creating Constructive Conversations on the Benbere, Habari and Yaga Blogging Platforms
Utrecht (NL): University of Applied Sciences, Master Thesis (2019), 42 pp.
"The premise of this research is that digital activism, like many other forms of online engagement work in an ecosystem. And just like the success of a species is largely dependent on environmental factors, and its reaction to those circumstances, so does the success of a digital activist platform.
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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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Knowledge and Legitimacy: The Fragility of Digital Mobilisation in Sudan
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 35-53
"This paper examines digital mobilisation with respect to knowledge production, legitimacy and power in Sudan since new communication and surveillance technologies became widespread. Enthusiasm for digital opposition peaked with the Arab Spring and troughed through the repressive government apparatu
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Public participation and social accountability in Kenyan counties: A pilot study using interactive radio in Siaya
Nairobi; Cambridge: Africa's Voices Foundation; Urban Institute (2019), 34 pp.
"[...] this pilot study in Siaya County sought to assess what makes for more effective public participation in Kenya. In contributing to a timely policy concern about how to best meet the imperatives/aspirations of devolution, it sought also to address the limited empirical evidence in scholarship a
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