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A Race to the Bottom: Populism, Mis/Disinformation and South Africa's 2021 Election
Anti-Disinformation Project (2021), 103 pp.
"For analysing populist and dis- and minformation-driven campaigning, three sub-groupings of South African Twitter deserve particular attention. A) A community of radical populists made of black consciousness voices emphasising the struggle against 'white monopoly capital,' using this phrase as a di
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Amplified Abuse: Report on Online Violence Against Women in the 2021 Uganda General Election
Kampala: Pollicy (2021), iv, 58 pp.
Disinformation in the Brazilian pre-election context: Probing the content, spread and implications of fake news about Lula da Silva
Communication Review, volume 24, issue 4 (2021), pp. 297-319
"This research scrutinizes the content, spread, and implications of disinformation in Brazil’s 2018 pre-election period. It focuses specifically on the most widely shared fake news about Lula da Silva and links these with the preexisting polarization and political radicalization, ascertaining the
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Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign
Social Media + Society, volume 7, issue 2 (2021), 13 pp.
"In this article, we analyze the spread of political disinformation in events of discursive struggles on Twitter, during the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. These were disputes for the hegemonic narrative between two stories based on opposed hashtags: one based on news from mainstream media an
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The Media-Democracy Paradox in Ghana: Rethinking Political Communication in an African Context
Bristol: intellect (2020), 218 pp.
"This original new book researches into the praxis of this democracy and its media, delving into Ghana's evolvement, media practice, leadership aspirations, pressure group politics and ethnic and tribal cleavages. Written in accessible language it will provide valuable source material for readers in
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An Analysis of Social Media Use in the SADC Region 2014 - 2020
Harare: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA); Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 51 pp.
"I. Regional countries spend about 1.1 percent of GDP on digital investment, while advanced economies spend an average of 3.2 percent
II. 37% of social media users in the region have contributed to the creation of news, commented on it or shared it with others.
III. There is an upward trend in arres
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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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Understanding Viral Communism: A Thematic Analysis of Twitter During Brazil’s 2018 Elections
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 15, issue 1 (2020), pp. 19-36
"This research performs a thematic analysis on tweets published during Brazil’s 2018 elections that mentioned communism. The idea was to identify the linkages to other underlying themes that emerged during what we saw as the Twitter ‘virality of communism’ and interpret them considering the ba
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Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa
Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2020), xi, 270 pp.
"Searching for a New Kenya analyses public discussion in urban Kenya, focusing on the gatherings of citizens, both in-person and online, where people discuss issues of common concern to shed light on the role public discussion plays in politics and how social media affects political movements. Throu
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Mídia, desinformação e democracia: Como os meios de comunicação influenciam as eleições presidenciais no Brasil
Revista Observatório, volume 6, issue 6 (2020), 24 pp.
"Este artigo visa analisar a cobertura dos meios de comunicação brasileiros nas eleições presidenciais realizadas no país a partir da redemocratização, começando com a de 1989 e finalizando com a de 2018. O estudo tomou como base teórica reflexões sobre desinformação, manipulação, fake
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WhatsApp Audios and the Remediation of Radio: Disinformation in Brazilian 2018 Presidential Election
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 18, issue 2 (2020), pp. 139-158
"This article brings the results of an investigation into the role of WhatsApp audio messages in the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, proposing that instant voice messaging borrows elements from radio language. We started from a broader research, conducted by the Brazilian National Institute o
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Participatory Media Cultures: Virality, Humour, and Online Political Contestations in Kenya
Africa Spectrum, volume 55, issue 2 (2020), pp. 148-169
"The article seeks to discuss varied forms of citizen engagement in the era of Internet viral cultures, ranging from (1) the use of social media for online protest, characterised by political contestation and fleeting outbursts of anger and backlash in the Twittersphere, to (2) the appropriation of
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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 Impact of Digital Media on the 2019 Indian General Election
Singapore: Institute of South Asian Studies; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 28 pp.
"The 2019 Indian general election saw the widespread and innovative use of digital media and technology. Most political parties employed digital media extensively for campaigning and voter mobilisation. This extensive use of digital media was due to nearly half of India’s 900 million eligible vote
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Elections and Media in Digital Times
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 67 pp.
"The central focus of this study is the dynamic and complex relationship between elections and (digital) media. This choice of focus is explained by the need to safeguard the integrity and credibility of electoral processes, as well as the role of the news media during election periods, in the face
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Disinformation and Electoral Campaigns
Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2019), 40 pp.
Publics in Africa in a Digital Age
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1-213
Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp.
"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra
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Social Media Literacy, Ethnicity and Peacebuilding in Kenya
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 14 pp.
"Kenya has experienced a cycle of political violence following a series of controversial elections that have centred on ethnic competition, leading to human rights abuses, deaths, destruction of property and a downward economic spiral. At the core of election violence, witnessed in 2007/8 and in 201
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