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No Signal, no Voice: How Internet Shutdowns Undermined Uganda’s 2026 Elections
Kampala: Unwanted Witness; Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) (2026), 55 pp.
"This report finds that significant, deliberate, and centrally coordinated internet disruptions occurred before, during, and after Uganda’s January 2026 general elections. Contrary to public assurances issued by government officials in the weeks preceding polling, access to the internet was progre
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Künstliche Intelligenz in politischen Kampagnen: Akzeptanz, Wahrnehmung und Wirkung
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2025), 108 pp.
"Im ersten Teil geben wir einen Überblick über den Einsatz von generativer KI in der politischen Kampagnenkommunikation. Insbesondere die generativen KI-Tools ChatGPT und Midjourney werden zunehmend in politischen Kampagnen eingesetzt, um menschenähnliche Texte beziehungsweise fotorealistische Bi
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Media in Africa: Issues and Critiques
New York; London: Routledge (2024), 232 pp.
"Featuring contributions from global scholars, that represent both new and established voices on the African continent and the diaspora, this volume explores themes of decolonization, media freedom, media censorship, identity, representation, pluralism, media framing, political economy of the media
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Georgian Election Observatory (#GEObservatory24): Debunking pre-election propaganda narratives
University of Georgia; Fojo Media Institute (2024), 69 pp.
"The “Georgian Elections Observatory (#GEObservatory24)” was a short-term initiative aimed at fact-checking pre-election narratives leading up to the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2024, together with a few immediate post-election analyses. Unlike traditional fact-checking platforms, thi
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Just what is data-driven campaigning? A systematic review
Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 1 (2024), 22 pp.
"Discussions of data-driven campaigning have gained increased prominence in recent years. Often associated with the practices of Cambridge Analytica and linked to debates about the health of modern democracy, scholars have devoted considerable attention to the rise of data-driven politics. However,
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"É na unção que se encontra poder": Carisma e organização eclesiástica na trajetória política da cantora Mara Lima
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024010 (2024), 36 pp.
"Neste texto, analisamos a trajetória eleitoral da deputada Cantora Mara Lima, procurando perceber como a candidata construiu seu carisma nas eleições estaduais paranaenses em 2014, 2018 e 2022, em sintonia com o projeto político da Assembleia de Deus (AD). Procedemos à coleta e sistematizaçã
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Unveiling Disinformation: Mapping Attacks on Brazil’s Electoral System and the Response of the Superior Electoral Court (2018–2023)
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3551-3575
"Falsehoods targeting political parties and candidates have long been entrenched in Brazilian politics and monitored by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Since the rise of the far right in Brazil, the TSE has itself become a disinformation target. This study aims to unveil disinformation that has
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Media Manipulation in Young Democracies: Evidence From the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election
Comparative Political Studies, volume 57, issue 2 (2023), pp. 221-253
"We investigate how dominant media networks can manipulate voters in young democracies. During the first presidential election after the democratic transition in Brazil, TV Globo, the largest and most-watched network in the country, unexpectedly manipulated the news coverage of the last debate 2 day
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Comicios mediáticos III: Medios masivos, encuestas y rede sociodigitales en las Elecciones 2020 en Bolivia
La Paz, Bolivia: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2023), 330 pp.
Information Integrity to Sustain Peace during Electoral Processes. Sustaining Peace during Electoral Processes (SELECT) Project
New York: UNDP (2023), 48 pp.
"The purpose of this report is to gain a better understanding of the pertinent dynamics and to bolster the design of programming to support the information ecosystem around elections. In aid of this, UNDP sought information through a number of channels, in a review of the relevant literature, a seri
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Reconstructing Elections in a Digital World
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 30, issue 3 (2023), pp. 473-496
"The nature of elections has been transformed by the rise of digital technologies in the last few years, in large part due to the rise of social media platforms and their impact on election campaigning, dissemination of informationand opinion formation. Furthermore, digital technologies have been em
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Journalism in the Grey Zone: Pluralism and Media Capture in Lebanon and Tunisia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023), ix, 228 pp.
"Lebanon and Tunisia are two of the freest countries in the Middle East and North Africa, but elites in both countries seek to manipulate media organisations and individual journalists to shore up support for themselves and attack opponents. This book explores the political role of journalism in the
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Populism, Religion, and Social Media in Central America
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 1 (2023), pp. 138-159
"This paper analyzes how presidential candidates Fabricio Alvarado and Nayib Bukele used Facebook during the elections in Costa Rica (2018) and El Salvador (2019) respectively to develop a particular style of communication that blended populist elements and religious discourse. This style of communi
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"Although the share of countries with limits on the publication of pre-election polls has dropped to 46%, an additional 24 countries (15%) do not permit election polling at all. Governments in one-third of countries officially regulate polls. More than one in four countries have taboos on publishing
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Comunales 2020 au Benin: Gestion d'une campagne électorale exclusivement mediatique. Livre blanc
Cotonou: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 96 pp.
"Le présent livre blanc passe au peigne fin le parcours trépidant de la HAAC pendant cette campagne inédite au Bénin et dans le monde. Il retrace et analyse les activités menées par la HAAC dans le cadre des communales de 2020, en pointant singulièrement la période de campagne électorale qu
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The Mediatization of Politics in Cameroon: A Political Actor-Centric Approach
African Journalism Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (2022), pp. 107-126
"This article examines the connection between political parties’ perceptions of the importance of news media as source of political information, and the extent to which they adapt their communications to the standards, routines, formats and logic of the news media in Cameroon. This, with the objec
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