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Discussing Conflict in Social Media: The Use of Twitter in the Jammu and Kashmir Conflict
Media, War & Conflict, volume 15, issue 4 (2022), pp. 504-529
"This article conducts a qualitative content analysis of content on Twitter concerning the conflict in the Jammu and Kashmir region. The tweets following the death of a popular militant, Burhan Wani, cover three different themes: (1) criticism of intellectuals; (2) Burhan Wani’s impact on the conf
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Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar
Journal of Contemporary Asia, volume 52, issue 2 (2022), pp. 200-225
"Which functions do social media fill for non-state armed groups in countries with internal armed conflict? Building on conflict data, interviews and media monitoring, we have reviewed the use of social media by Myanmar’s nine most powerful armed groups. The first finding is that they act like sta
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Ukrainekrieg auf Telegram: Rechtsextremer Knotenpunkt für Desinformationen und Verschwörungserzählungen
Mainz: jugendschutz.net (2022), 9 pp.
"Seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine im Februar 2022 nutzen Rechtsextreme die Ereignisse und Entwicklungen für ihre Propaganda. Dabei lassen sich sowohl pro-ukrainische als auch prorussische Positionierungen beobachten. Insbesondere werden gezielt Desinformationen und Versch
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Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers
"This chapter explores digital drivers of conflict. We examine how technologies are affecting conflict dynamics and what peacebuilders can do to mitigate these effects. We argue that because digital technologies are fundamentally altering the human experience, they are by extension fundamentally alt
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Easing Cameroon’s Ethnopolitical Tensions, on and Offline
Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), iii, 40 pp.
Apaiser les tensions ethno-politiques au Cameroun, en ligne et hors ligne
Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), iii, 43 pp.
External Communication in Social Media During Asymmetric Conflicts: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Case Study of the Conflict in Israel and Palestine
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 310 pp.
"Social media increasingly shapes the way in which we perceive conflicts and conflict parties abroad. Conflict parties, therefore, have started using social media strategically to influence public opinion abroad. This book explores the phenomenon by examining, (1) which strategies of external commun
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Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 239 pp.
"Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, So
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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020), 296 pp.
"Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria’s social mobilisation but as a shift from online to o
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The Role of Social Media in Fomenting Violence: Myanmar
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 20 pp.
"Myanmar was originally portrayed as an internet success story. Connected in a matter of months after five decades of military dictatorship, Myanmar people were supposed to be able to communicate freely, access unimpeded information online, experience the benefits of a range of compelling and empowe
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"The rapid escalation in the long-running conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia which took place in late September 2020 has been shadowed by a battle across social media for control of the international narrative about the conflict. On Twitter, large numbers of accounts supporting both sides have
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Media and Conflict in the Social Media Era in China
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiv, 160 pp.
"This book explores the media and conflict relationship in the age of social media through the lens of China. Inspired by the concepts of medialization of conflict and actor-network theory, this book centers on four main actors in wars and conflicts: social media platform, mainstream news organizati
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Social Media Impacts on Conflict Dynamics: A Synthesis of Ten Case Studies & A Peacebuilding Plan for Tech
Deep Insights
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 21 pp.
"Social media’s relationship with violent conflict is complex; there is no simple cause-effect relationship. These ten case studies indicate that there are a variety of factors at play that im-pact how social media affects conflict dynamics. This report documents an array of observable patterns as
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#defyhatenow: Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation. Field Guide
Key Guides
Berlin: r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation (2018), 111 pp.
"The #defyhatenow Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation Field Guide offers tools and strategies to be used in grassroots communities & online campaigns for peacebuilding in South Sudan and around the world. This “Field Guide” contains an overview of relevant grassroots projects, initiatives and st
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Citizen, Mainstream and Peace Journalism Relationship in Covering Syria Events: A Content Analysis of Aljazeera
Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, volume 51, issue 6 (2017), pp. 2647-2664
"With the intercession of the new media, individuals were able to write news and publish videos through their participations on Social Networking Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs. This article is centered on citizen journalism which comes from the participation of citizens in making news. T
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Information and Communication Technology and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar: Organizing for Violence or Peace?
Social Science Quarterly, volume 98, issue 3 (2017), pp. 895-913
"In a country as historically conflict ridden as Myanmar, will the reduced communication costs yielded by the recent expansion of mobile telephony create political affordances that make collective organization for peace or violence more likely to prevail? Applying a random effects model of time-seri
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Communication Technology and Reports on Political Violence: Cross-National Evidence Using African Events Data
Political Research Quarterly, volume 70, issue 1 (2017), pp. 19-31
"The spread of Internet and mobile phone access around the world has implications for both the processes of contentious politics and subsequent reporting of protest, terrorism, and war. In this paper, we explore whether political violent events that occur close to modern communication networks are s
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Emerging Media and Press Freedoms as Determinants of Nonviolent and Violent Political Conflicts, 1990–2006
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 4 (2017), pp. 335-356
"Using aggregate-level data, this study compares instances of intrastate political conflict that occurred in both nonviolent and violent forms. Specifically, analyses presented in this study examine the relationships that exist between diffusion rates of emerging media and enhanced press freedoms in
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