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Media Culture in Nomadic Communities
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp.
"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com
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From Airtable to Zoom: An A-to-Z Guide to Digital Tech and Activism 2021
Deep Insights
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2021), 18 pp.
"This policy brief maps how activists are using technology to pursue public interests in human rights, democracy and a livable environment. It begins with a look at how cell phone tech has upped the outreach and mobilising game for campaigns, dives into digital storytelling and fundraising, explores
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Women organising in fragility and conflict: Lessons from the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Nigeria
Gender & Development, volume 29, issue 2-3 (2021), pp. 313-334
"Public protests, including women-led struggles, are increasingly gaining a foothold in many parts of the world in response to multiple crises and growing exclusion, in a context of fragility. In the global South, most public protests involve temporary, informal coalitions where people come together
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Human Rights in Survival Mode: Rebuilding Trust and Supporting Digital Workers in the Philippines
Cambridge, MA: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Asia Foundation (2021), 63 pp.
"This report summarizes powerful research on the Philippines’ human rights sector in “survival mode” under Rodrigo Duterte’s violent regime. Historically known as the most active civil society in Asia, the Philippines human rights movement has faced an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy whil
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Digital Civil Society: (Dis-) Connected
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2021), 52 pp.
"This publication is a collection of a variety of outlooks, recommendations, and input from the participants of the 2020 workshop [for fellows of the CrossCulture Programme (CCP) of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen] and others. On the subject of digital access, CCP alumnus Camilo Olea speaks ab
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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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"Civil society technology, or civic tech, is one of the novel notions introduced by the digital age – a new form of social interaction and implementation of fundamental human rights. The dominating discourse that civic tech is about optimising and digitising public services is challenged by the ex
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A Weapon of the Weak: Fighting Police Brutality Through Social Media
Hamburg: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2021), 12 pp.
"The 20 October 2021 marks the first anniversary of the shooting of unarmed protesters by the Nigerian military. The movement pushing to abolish the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has proved how social media can make the voices of the weak heard. However, recent developments surrounding social me
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Data-Driven Advocacy Midterm Performance Evaluation
Washington, DC: USAID (2021), xii, 89 pp.
"Since August 2017, USAID/Tanzania’s five-year Data-Driven Advocacy (DDA) Activity has sought to improve and sustain Tanzanian civil society’s ability to advocate for and influence policy on key national human rights issues using higher-quality data and information to drive results. Implemented
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El efecto exilio: La oposición venezolana en el extranjero y las redes sociales
Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), iii, 25 pp.
The Stepping Into Visibility Model: Reflecting on Consequences of Social Media Visibility – a Global South Perspective
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2021), pp. 405-424
"This article discusses activists’ need to reflect on how achieving social media visibility might translate into vulnerability. In order to provide activists with a tool for this reflection, the Stepping into Visibility Model has been developed and applied to two case studies: (a) an activist grou
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La radiodiffusion au Brésil : La place sociopolitique et culturelle de la radio communautaire à l’ère d’Internet
RadioMorphoses, volume 5-6 (2021), 14 pp.
"Au Brésil, la radio a toujours joué un rôle clé dans les principaux événements du pays ; cet important moyen de communication pour les Brésiliens reproduit toutefois les contradictions et les complexités de l’ensemble de la société, dans un contexte marqué par les inégalités sociales
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"Through our booklet we do not want to encourage just "any kind" of online expression. We want to promote a specific way to express oneself online. Our intention is to stimulate structured and socially oriented active participation online, as a continuation of Civil Society Organisations' effort to
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Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (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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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 142 pp.
"Hear #metoo in India examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment feminist activism in India. Including 75 interviews with rural and subaltern feminist activists and journalists working in urban and rural regions of India, the book proposes a nuanced framework of agenda
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The Struggle Over Narrative in Lebanon Post the October Uprising: Can the Alternative Groups Fight the Ruling Elite's Control Over Media?
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 49 pp.
"Despite the growing impact and diversity in the alternative media scene in Lebanon, and the key role they play in producing a counter-hegemonic narrative on political, economic, and sociological matters, they remain nonetheless lacking a viable and sturdy infrastructure. The latter is evident in th
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Medios y ciudadanía: Enfoques para un periodismo de cambio
Lima: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 68 pp.
"En los artículos se destaca el papel del periodismo comunitario en la construcción de la ciudadanía y la democracia, la importancia del periodismo cívico en la experiencia de Radio Quillabamba, se averigua sobre las implicancias de la relación entre periodismo y medio ambiente. También se ana
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Impact of the shrinking civic space on media & citizens in West Africa: Key trends and actions required
Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2021), 14 pp.
"[...] This edition of the MFWA’s Media and Governance Series, explores the shrinking civic space in West Africa; the growing issues contributing to the shrinking civic space as well as its impact on the media landscape and citizens. It also suggests key actions required of stakeholders such as go
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