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Images and Misinformation in Political Groups: Evidence from WhatsApp in India
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 1, issue 5 (2020), 12 pp.
"WhatsApp is a key medium for the spread of news and rumors, often shared as images. We study a large collection of politically-oriented WhatsApp groups in India, focusing on the period leading up to the 2019 Indian national elections. By labeling samples of random and popular images, we find that a
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The Internet's Challenge to Democracy: Framing the Problem and Assessing Reforms
Geneva: Kofi Annan Foundation (2020), 65 pp.
"The unique dangers of the new communication revolution fall into several categories: Velocity – The lightning speed of online communication is in tension with democracy because well-timed lies immediately preceding an election can gain a national audience before they can be rebutted; Virality –
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Social Media and Elections in Africa. Vol. 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Election Campaigns
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xv, 237 pp.
"This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa. Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages with the main drives behind the variou
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Contagious Protests
World Bank Group (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores the spillover of protests across countries using data on nonviolent and spontaneous demonstrations for 200 countries from 2000 to 2020. Using an autoregressive spatial model, the analysis finds strong evidence of “contagious protests,” with a catalyzing role of social media.
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Watchdog Role: How Malawi Media Utilise Question Time During Press Briefings
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores how Malawian media utilise question time during press briefings to fulfil its watchdog role. Using the concept of ‘journalistic interview’, which treats interviews between journalists and politicians as an encounter of two institutions, each making a claim on its legitimacy,
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Learning Democracy Digitally? The Internet and Knowledge of Democracy in Nondemocracies
Democratization, volume 27, issue 8 (2020), pp. 1413-1435
"The study of public opinion in nondemocratic states has found that people often say they support democracy, yet they show little demand for democratization or regime change. Given this paradox, recent scholarship has shown that these attitudes exist because people who live under the rule of non-dem
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Illegal assaults and treatment of journalists: A big challenge to the journalism profession in Nigeria
Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, volume 12, issue 3 (2020), pp. 151-161
"One of the greatest obstacles confronting the journalism profession in the discharge of their duties is the indiscriminate physical and digital threat being experienced by journalists all over the world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The continuous attacks facing journalists in Africa, mo
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Arab Resistance in the diaspora: Comparing the Saudi dissident and the Egyptian whistleblower
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 13, issue 1 (2020), pp. 31-49
"While much research on Arab and Muslim diasporas in the West focuses on the War(s) on Terror, in this article, we explore how two particular diasporic groups, Egyptian and Saudi activists, work to shape public perceptions of the authoritarian regimes in their countries of origin. Contextualizing th
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Thinking Democratically: A Comprehensive Approach to Countering and Preventing 'Shrinking Space'
Brussels: European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) (2020), 59 pp.
"This paper brings together 7 case studies on closing democratic space by experts from countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa as well as examples from Europe. The paper concludes with actionable recommendations for preventing and reacting to closing democratic space. Three
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Countering Disinformation: A Guide to Promoting Information Integrity
Key Guides
Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS); USAID (2020), [345 pp.]
"This resource combines the collective wisdom of organizations on the front lines of combatting disinformation globally. This living project provides an outline of what’s being done to address the challenge in key areas and provides a searchable database of the organizations around the world engag
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Kaboom! Of Stereotypes and Superheroes - African Comics on Africa = Von Stereotypen und Superhelden - Afrikanische Comics und Comics zu Afrika
Deep Insights
Basel; Frankfurt am Main: Basler Afrika Bibliographien; Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library; Brandes & Apsel, 2nd. ed. (2020), 156 pp.
"Die Herausgeber des Buches stellen ein vielfältges Spektrum afrikanischer Comic-Kunst vor – von Superhelden- und Undergroundcomics bis hin zu solchen mit propagandistischem Inhalt oder Bildungsanspruch. Lehr- und Aufklärungscomics hatten in Afrika in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ihr
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"This handbook brings together principles of conflict sensitive journalism with practical strategies for election reporting to explore how media workers can play a role in protecting and promoting free and fair elections. It aims to provide some guidelines that both editors and their journalists can
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Engendering Hate: The Contours of State-Aligned Gendered Disinformation Online
London: Demos (2020), 40 pp.
"Online spaces are being systematically weaponised to exclude women leaders and to undermine the role of women in public life. Attacks on women which use hateful language, rumour and gendered stereotypes combine personal attacks with political motivations, making online spaces dangerous places for w
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The Sage Handbook of Propaganda
London et al.: Sage (2020), 612 pp.
"The Sage Handbook of Propaganda unpacks the ever-present and exciting topic of propaganda to explain how it invades the human psyche, in what ways it does so, and in what contexts. As a beguiling tool of political persuasion in times of war, peace, and uncertainty, propaganda incites people to take
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News Literacy and Democracy
Routledge (2020), xi, 206 pp.
La télévision publique gabonaise et la construction d'une communauté nationale 1963-2014
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 460 pp.
"À l’heure où les fractures sociales s’aggravent dans le pays, cet ouvrage examine le lien entre la volonté politique de bâtir une nation, socle du vivre ensemble dans une société marquée par la pluralité des appartenances, et la définition du rôle social des médias – ici la premiè
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Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution: Anti-Colonialism, Independence and Internationalism in Filmmaking, 1968-1991
Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer (2020), xvi, 292 pp.
"In one of the first cultural acts to follow independence in 1975, Frelimo's new socialist government of Mozambique set up a National Institute of Cinema (the INC). In a country where many people had little previous experience of cinema, the INC was tasked to "deliver to the people an image of the p
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Social Media and Polarization in the 'New Malaysia'
Singapore: ISEAS (2020), 9 pp.
"Malaysia’s Pakatan Harapan government fell rapidly in late February 2020 as a result of coalition infighting and power struggles among the political elite. A major factor in the government’s sudden collapse was rising ethnoreligious tension between Muslim-Malay nationalists in the opposition an
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