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Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2024), xxi, 264 pp.
"Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social cha
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Wild paroxysms of the turbulent 90s: How 'The Traitors' documentary exposed the Russian liberal milieu
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 13 pp.
"The story which The Traitors tells is pretty simple and well known to academic scholars who deal with the modern Russian state: it was corrupt from its inception and Putin’s regime is in no way an aberration, but smooth continuity of the Yeltsin system. The documentary precipitated a wave of slan
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De la dispute en communication politique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 245 pp.
"Cet ouvrage propose de comprendre ce qui se joue dans la communication politique. Celle-ci doit laisser place à l'expression des conflits et des désaccords, ce qui permet de renégocier le pacte civil. Dans cette perspective, force est de constater que la démocratie est avant tout un espace dél
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#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar: The Evolution of the Digital Fight Against Authoritarian State Repression
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2224-2244
"This study examines #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar and attempts to understand the practice of hashtags in the struggle against digital repression. By using descriptive analysis methods and qualitative content analysis, this study argues that #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar is categorized into 4 distinct narrati
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Democracy and AI: How Technological Progress Can Strengthen Democratic Structures
Potsdam; Berlin: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; iRights.Lab (2024), 39 pp.
"[...] this paper presents approximately 30 worldwide examples of successful AI use to promote various aspects of democracy. At the same time, the corresponding challenges that need to be addressed are highlighted. From the examination of international examples, the following theses can be derived:
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Civil Society Chatbots: A Plurality of Conceptual Approaches
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 947-966
"This article examines chatbots that have been developed by civil society for social, political, and/or cultural purposes. I ask what conceptual approaches have influenced the design of civil society chatbots and how these frameworks are actualized in practice. To do this, I first propose the concep
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Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxi, 326 pp.
"This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist
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Mobilisations sociales à l'épreuve du numérique : Une comparaison France-Algérie
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 285 pp.
"Les pratiques « médiactivistes » numériques offrent de nouveaux cadres pour la formation et le développement des mobilisations sociales contemporaines. Elles élargissent le champ de la lutte et incitent à s'interroger sur le rôle que jouent les dispositifs numériques dans l'amplification o
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‘Solidarity Across Borders’: Online gender activism and the construction of a Middle East and North African regional public space
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 547-573
"Academic discourse frequently speaks of a gender violence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), suggesting a distinctive gender violence that is tied to a geographic location. Within the framework of a digital ethnography, this research examines whether gender activists operating in digital s
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Asking for solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 523-545
"The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim
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Ghost in Dissent: Artifacts and the Architecture of Activism in Digital China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5673-5693
"This study examines the versatile tactics of digital activism in China via two pivotal artivist interventions in 2022: the Xiaohuamei T-shirt and the global Ürümqi road sign projects. It explores how activists navigate an increasingly restrictive digital environment by hybridizing online and onsi
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How to enhance constructive public dialogue on social media in Uganda: Recommendations from a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop, in Kampala, Uganda, in November 2023
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2024), 16 pp.
"In November 2023, DW Akademie brought together journalists, civil society organizations, digital rights experts, and media influencers for a consultation workshop in Kampala, Uganda. In the two-day event, hosted by Media Challenge Initiative (MCI), the diverse group collaboratively developed recomm
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“Woman, Life, Freedom”: A Visual Rhetoric Analysis of #MahsaAmini on X
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5559-5584
"This study examines the visual rhetoric and activism themes on #MahsaAmini through a quantitative content analysis of 520 visual tweets. The findings show massive support for the women’s movement in Iran through a predominantly visual pro-movement slant, which highlights the role of emotional vis
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The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia
Jounal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 41-57
"The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the voices of the poor, and facilitate development a
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Memes, humor, and the far right’s strategic mainstreaming
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"The far right is increasingly relying on visual and less extreme online communication, for instance by using memes, to strategically mainstream their ideology. The use of humor in particular renders their communication more relatable to a mainstream audience. However, little is known about the actu
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