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Politics in Cyberspace: New Media in Malaysia
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 56 pp.
"There seems little evidence that the rise and increasing availability and range of new media have given real reason to expect different political outcomes on grounds of new patterns of mobilization, particularly given a persistent “digital divide.” What has been happening, though, is an increas
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The Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Political Protest: Evidence from the Tunisian Revolution
Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (2012), 31 pp.
"Drawing on evidence from the popular protests in Tunisia between December 2010 and January 2011, expert interviews with Tunisian bloggers, and a web survey conducted among Tunisian Facebook users, this paper argues that social media (1) allowed a “digital elite” to form personal networks and ci
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The Media and the Making of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 19 pp.
"While views may differ on the factors that made the 2011 Egyptian revolution possible, the role of mass media will remain undisputable. The Internet-based social networks caught the Mubarak regime by surprise, and the popular disillusionment with the‘national’ media led the public to turn to pr
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Defining the Nation: National Identity in South Sudanese Media Discourse
Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 21-49
"This article examines debates about national identity in the media landscape of post-referendum and post-independence South Sudan. Having never existed as a sovereign state and with its citizens being a minority group in Sudan, collective action among South Sudanese has historically been shaped in
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Social Media, Social Movements and the Diffusion of Ideas in the Arab Uprisings
Journal of International Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (2012), pp. 97-111
"This article studies the 2011 Arab uprisings as social movements for political reform and regime change. Social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter, are perceived to be playing a central role in these events, which have even been described as ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter revolutions’. Using
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The Media and the Political Crisis in Côte D’Ivoire
Legon; Copenhagen: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 62 pp.
Medien und Medienpolitik in Brasilien
In: Das politische System Brasiliens
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2012), pp. 254-262
The New Arab Media: Technology, Image and Perception
Reading: Ithaca Press (2012), xxiv, 168 pp.
Using ICT to Promote Governance
DANIDA (2012), 40 pp.
"In the fall of 2011, Danida commissioned a study with the objective of examining strategic opportunities for using ICT for promoting governance and democratization efforts within development assistance; and exploring opportunities for ICT in the present Danish portfolio of development programs and
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Exile Media, Global News Flows and Democratization: The Role of Democratic Voice of Burma's 2010 Elections
Media, Culture & Society, volume 34, issue 5 (2012), pp. 537-554
"This article explores the links between transnational media flows and social and political change in authoritarian regimes through a conjunctural study of Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a Burmese exile media organization. Drawing on observation and interviews conducted at DVB's Oslo studio during
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The Democratic Impact of ICT in Africa
Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 73-88
"This paper takes a critical look at the view that the Internet can serve as a laboratory of political experimentation for reconfiguring the repertories of political actions. The overall discourses on information and communications technology (ICT) are too often focused on technology and infrastruct
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Using Social Media to Gauge Iranian Public Opinion and Mood After the 2009 Election
Santa Monica, Calif. et al.: RAND Corporation (2012), xxi, 86 pp.
"This report presents an analysis of Iranian public opinion and mood as expressed over Twitter in the nine months following the election. The research represents an initial case study of a novel methodology developed to analyze politically oriented social media content. In addition to policy-relevan
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Tackling Ideological Clashes: Positional Cultural Identification in Political Commentaries by Chinese Overseas Online Commentators
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 6 (2012), pp. 540-555
"This investigation is about how Chinese overseas online commentators (COOCs) respond to political discourses on China. COOCs present the ideological heterogeneity of Chinese overseas. Their diverse responses to different ideological debates show patterns that manifest how the Chinese diaspora enact
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What is Governance? Citizens' Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania
Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press (2012), xxvii, 176 pp.
Politik vermitteln: Legitimationsfragen in der Demokratie
Schwalbach: Wochenschau-Verlag (2012), 108 pp.
"In Zeiten der Globalisierung, in denen Komplexität und Vernetzung immer mehr zunehmen, sind politische Inhalte und politische Prozesse kaum noch zu durchschauen und die Schwierigkeiten "der Politik" diese zu vermitteln, scheinen zunehmend größer zu werden. Gelingt die Politikvermittlung jedoch n
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Medias et démocratie au Burkina Faso
Dakar; Leiden: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); African Studies Centre (2012), 108 pp.
„The Whole Idea is to Entertain Them": Musik im indischen Wahlkampf
Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2012), 93 pp.
"Music is an omnipresent part of the often so-called great Indian election circus and much more than a mere by-product of what is the greatest democratic exercise worldwide. Songs and tunes are an integral part of political communication, strategically used by political actors which are confronted w
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Digital Media in the Arab World: One Year After the Revolutions
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 31 pp.
"Following the revolutions, the battle for the Arab blogosphere has turned from being a competition over accessing the Internet and circumventing government controls to a cyberwar for the predominant narrative through Facebook, Twitter, and traditional media [...] Social media is reinvigorating trad
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