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Racism Revealed: A Manual for Educators on Using Poster Artwork to Promote Discussion on Racism

Amy Skinner, Kristina Božiè

Ljubljana: Poster Festival Ljubljana; Fundacija Brumen; Amnesty International Slovenia (2011), 29 pp.

"The manual has been designed as a resource for teachers or educators interested in using visual images to promote interactive discussion and critical thinking amongst young people about racism and discrimination. The resource can be used within diverse educational settings and is most appropriate f ... more

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Pera Natin ‘To! Citizen Action for Good Governance

Red Batario (ed.)

Quezon City: Philippine Public Transparency Reporting Project (PPTRP) (2011), 154 pp.

"The starting point of PPTRP has been that real and lasting transparency and accountability are best built from the ground up piece by piece and by ordinary people taking their responsibilities as citizens seriously. It is one of the reasons we subtitled the project and website “Pera Natin ‘to!� ... �� (It’s Our Money!). We wanted to help build public ownership in the issue. Our concern was – and remains still today – that changes introduced at the top by one administration – can so easily be taken away by another unless that change is deeply rooted in the ground and in its people. So we believed- and still believe – that real sustainable change in governance comes only from active and continual participation of citizens. It needs action and engagement at both the national and local level. It needs groups, sectors and communities finding new ways of coming and working together to develop new ideas and build new constituencies and avenues for change. It needs to involve and energise all those hundreds of thousands of honest and professional civil servants across the country who for way too long have quietly despaired going to work each day given the failure of leadership in their own departments and agencies. All this required and still requires a combined response that uses new thinking and approaches. It required first and foremost the start of a public literacy campaign around public finances since citizens cannot ever hope to adequately monitor or engage in things that they don’t understand. So it was that we built our project equally around information, education, training, capacity building, networking, advocacy and campaigns. So it was that we worked with people’s organizations, civil society groups, media and ordinary members of the public at one and the same time. We figured that everybody had a role to play in building and securing transparency and accountability – and so everybody should get involved. We started work on a website full of the basics – (www.transparencyreporting.net) accessible and easy to understand information about all aspects of public finance. We assumed little – partly because we knew little ourselves and were learning on the job as we went. We wrote, commissioned and edited material designed to give readers a sense of understanding about how public finances, systems and cycles worked and what kind of issues and problems there were. We tried to identify how and where money was raised and how it was allocated and spent and why and by whom. Invariably it comes down to money. If you can follow the money, you can find the problems and perhaps even help suggest some solutions. We developed training modules too – modules aimed equally at journalists and activists and ordinary members of the public. And we toured around the Philippines going north and as far south as Tawi-Tawi where we were told few groups ever venture. We encouraged people to report allegations of corruption – but equally we sought out instances of where government was working well and deserved highlighting. It is easy to be negative – but far better to be critically constructive. We received many more allegations than we could investigate – in large part because sources were scared even to follow up and meet with us in confidence. Protection for whistle-blowers remains very much a pressing issue today that needs sorting ... While all projects must by necessity always remain above the political fray, we were naturally delighted that as things turned out, the new incoming administration made improving transparency and accountability a primary goal. When an initiative finds itself working in support of government policy, it is always easier. So we were delighted to see the issue of political abuse of public projects taken up as were the appointment of some leading proponents of open government to key positions in the administration. We were very fortunate also for the chance to work closely with officials in several key departments and on various initiatives linked to the national budget. [...] Perhaps one key achievement we might be remembered for, alongside the website which will remain as hopefully a useful resource for those wanting to learn more about public sector finances -- is having set up four local citizen watchdog groups that demonstrate how easy and important it is for ordinary people to get involved and play their part. We hope more groups can follow their lead. People power needs to be much more than a slogan and become a way of life." (Introduction, page 16-19) more

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Advocacy and Policy Influencing for Social Change

Ger Roebeling, Jan de Vries

Sarajevo: Technical Assistance for Civil Society Organisations - TACSO (2011), 225 pp.

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Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
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John D. H. Downing (ed.)

Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi; Singapore: Sage (2011), xxvii, 602 pp.

"This one-volume encyclopedia features around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media over the planet in the 20th and 21st centuries [...] The guiding principles have been to ensure that experiences from the global South are given voice; that women are properly represented amon ... more

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Ciudadanía y discurso noticioso: El caso de la red nacional de Fe y Alegría

Mónica Marchesi García, José Enrique Finol

In: Mutirão de Cultura América Latina e Caribe. Fevereiro 2010, PUCRS, Brasil

Henrique de Freitas Lima (ed.)

Porto Alegre: Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM); Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB); OCLACC (2011), pp. 166-183

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Una cartografía de la blogósfera cubana: Entre «oficialistas» y «mercenarios»

Ted Henken

Nueva Sociedad, issue 235 (2011), pp. 90-109

"Pese al clima –por momentos agobiante– de polarización, en Cuba ha emergido una variedad de blogs y de blogueros que buscan sobreponerse a las dificultades políticas y materiales. Más allá de los adjetivos con que cada «bando» busca descalificar a los otros, en los últimos años la exten ... more

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Civil Movements: The Impact of Facebook and Twitter

Fadi Salem, Racha Mourtada

Arab Social Media Report (Dubai School of Government), volume 1, issue 2 (2011), 29 pp.

"The report analyzes data on Twitter and Facebook users in all 22 Arab countries, in addition to Iran, Israel and Turkey, highlighting the role they played in the civil movements that swept the region during that period. This is part of a larger research initiative focusing on social engagement thro ... more

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Tegucigalpa: Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación (ERIC); Radio Progreso (2011), 348 pp.

"La publicación recoge la opinión institucional del equipo del ERIC y Radio Progreso acerca de diversos temas de actualidad que son cruciales para la sociedad hondureña. Lo hacen, como siempre, acompañando las luchas de resistencias de los sectores empobrecidos de acuerdo a su opción por la jus ... more

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Vozes silenciadas: A cobertura da mídia sobre o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra durante a Comissão Parlamentar Mista de Inquérito

São Paulo: Intervozes; Fitert; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 61 pp.

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Soziale Bewegungen und Social Media: Handbuch für den Einsatz von Web 2.0

Hans Christian Voigt, Thomas Kreiml (eds.)

Wien: ÖGB-Verlag (2011), 392 pp.

"Mit „Soziale Bewegungen und Social Media“ liegt das erste Handbuch zum Einsatz von Social Media vor, das sich nicht dem wirtschaftlichen Nutzen und der kommerziellen Verwertung widmet, sondern das für Arbeitnehmer_innen und Betriebsrät_innen, Bürgerinitiativen, NGO und Gewerkschaften geschri ... more

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Legacies of Tactical Media. The Tactics of Occupation: From Tompkins Square to Tahrir

Eric Kluitenberg

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2011), 56 pp.

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ICT Facilitated Access to Information Innovations: A Compendium of Case Studies from South Asia

One World Foundation India (2011), 145 pp.

"This report documents seven innovative ICT practices – five from India and two from Bangladesh – with the aim of advancing access to information for enhanced transparency and accountability in governance and the improvement of democratic practices and public service delivery." (Page 11)

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Driving Change Through Rural Radio Debate in Uganda

Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2011), 100 pp.

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Die Zukunft der Bürgerbeteiligung: Herausforderungen -Trends - Projekte

Marion Stock (Red.)

Bonn: Stiftung Mitarbeit (2011), 292 pp.

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Social Media in the Arab World: Leading Up to the Uprisings of 2011

Jeffrey Ghannam

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 39 pp.

"Key Findings: About 17 million people in the Arab region are using Facebook, available in Arabic, with 5 million in Egypt alone, and demand is expected to grow on micro-blogging sites. Twitter announced it will launch its Arabic interface in 2011; Arab governments are developing, at varying rates, ... more

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New Social Media and Conflict in Kyrgyzstan

Neil Melvin, Tolkun Umaraliev

Solna: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (2011), 22 pp.

"During 2010 Kyrgyzstan experienced two periods of conflict that took the country to the brink of civil war: the overthrow of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in April and the ethnic violence in the south of the country in June. The use of blogs and social network sites as well as mobile and multimedia p ... more

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Cyberactivism in the Egyptian Revolution: How Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism Tilted the Balance

Sahar Khamis, Katherine Vaughn

Arab Media & Society, issue 13 (2011), 37 pp.

"The Egyptian revolution was characterized by the instrumental use of social media, especially Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and text messaging by protesters, to bring about political change and democratic transformation. This article focuses on how these new types of media acted as effective tools fo ... more

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All Together Now: Oral Testimony, Theatre, Media, Debate. How One Community’s Concerns Reached a National Audience

Siobhan Warrington, Sahar Ali, Olivia Bennett

London: Panos London (2011), 16 pp.

"This case study demonstrates Panos’s integrated approach to communication for development: combining first person testimony, relationship-building, inclusive dialogue and working with the mainstream media so that the voices of people most affected by development issues contribute to national-leve ... more

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Vernetzt Euch!

Lina Ben Mhenni

Berlin: Ullstein (2011), 46 pp.

"Die 27-jährige Lina Ben Mhenni war eine der Internetaktivisten, die den tunesischen Diktator Ben Ali vertrieben haben. Sie ist auf die Straße gegangen, hat mit anderen Demonstranten die Freiheit gefordert. Sie hat fotografiert, gefilmt und berichtet, dort, wo keine Presse erlaubt war. Ihr Blog 'A ... more

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Guidelines on lobby and advocacy

Huub Sloot, Mariken Gaanderse

Utrecht: ICCO (2010), 52 pp.

Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media Deep Insights

Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
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