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Intervention Mali: Tracking Sentiment Across Social Media
Washington, DC: ConStrat (2013), 11 pp.
"Considering the lessons learned from US engagement in Iraq and especially Afghanistan, military engagement can only be sustained with the support of local populations. The concept of “winning hearts and minds” has emerged as an essential component of the counterinsurgency-counterterrorism doctr
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Social Media Reporting and the Syrian Civil War
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2013), 3 pp.
"The lack of traditional reporting and verifiable journalistic reports about the ongoing conflict in Syria has led to an increased dependence on social media as a source of news. But assessing the veracity of these reports has proven extremely difficult, creating consistent distortions of Syria’s
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Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.
Syria’s Cyber Wars
Open Society Foundation (2012), 25 pp.
"The government in Syria came to differentiate between political dissent and the civil society activism in which the new generation plays a vital role thanks to the use of social media. Unable to control the burst of online activity, Damascus was forced to focus on monitoring key dissenters and huma
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Altering Courses in Unknown Waters: Interaction Between Traditional and New Media During the First Months of the Syrian Uprising
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 13 pp.
"This paper aims at investigating the relationship between traditional and social media during the first six months of the Syrian uprising. Thanks to direct testimony made available to the author by various cyber activists inside and outside Syria and through constant monitoring of the official prop
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Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 38 pp.
"Much violent conflict today takes place in or near civilian populations with access to global information networks, so the information gathered by various parties to conflict may potentially be distributed in real time around the globe. The ability to communicate, and to produce and receive diverse
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Hegemony in the Digital Age: The Arab/Israeli Conflict Online
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2008), 185 pp.
"Internet technology has arguably changed the rules by which individuals, social movements, and institutions compete for political and cultural influence in technologically advanced societies. The author considers this reality through reference to the concept of hegemony; looking to the ways in whic
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Krieg und Internet: Ausweg aus der Propaganda?
Hannover: Heise (2004), 237 pp.
