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The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
Deep Insights
Hoboken; Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxvi, 430 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth view of how intricate and intractable conflicts can be and how the communicative aspects of conflict are equally challenging. The author reviews and guides readers through classic and contemporary analysis in the field, providing a truly interdisciplinary work. Handbook
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Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2025), xiv, 278 pp.
"Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons delves into the complex issue of misinformation in our daily lives. The book synthesizes three scholarly traditions - everyday life, misinformation, and governing knowledge commons - to present 10 case studies of online and offline communities
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The Platformisation of Consumer Culture: A Digital Methods Guide
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 282 pp.
"This book offers a unique methodological guide for social and marketing scholars interested in understanding and using digital methods to explore the processes of platformisation of consumer culture unfolding on digital media. The book introduces the reader to key digital methods concepts, strategi
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“Woman, Life, Freedom”: A Visual Rhetoric Analysis of #MahsaAmini on X
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5559-5584
"This study examines the visual rhetoric and activism themes on #MahsaAmini through a quantitative content analysis of 520 visual tweets. The findings show massive support for the women’s movement in Iran through a predominantly visual pro-movement slant, which highlights the role of emotional vis
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Exploring Hashtag Feminism Around Sexual Violence on Farsi Twitter: Affective Practices, Hierarchy of Deservingness, and Media Solidarities
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3441-3459
"This study investigates the participation of Iranian women in hashtag feminism on Farsi Twitter as a means of resistance against marginalization. Using frameworks of hashtag feminism and media solidarities, the research analyzes Bidarzani—a grassroots feminist campaign—tweets and online convers
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Religion in der digitalen Gesellschaft: Wenn der Papst twittert
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 354 pp.
"Wie bedeutsam ist Religion noch für uns - gerade in einer Zeit, in der viele institutionelle Religionen immer mehr ihrer Mitglieder verlieren? Christina Behler nimmt die digitale Gesellschaft als Ausgangspunkt und liefert eine detaillierte Analyse der Twitter-Aktivität von Papst Franziskus. Auf G
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The flood, the traitors, and the protectors: Affect and white identity in the Internet Research Agency’s Islamophobic propaganda on Twitter
Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 47, issue 5 (2024), pp. 982-1008
"Between 2015 and 2017, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) – a Kremlin-backed “troll farm” based in St. Petersburg – executed a propaganda campaign on Twitter to target US voters. Scholarship has expended relatively little effort to study the role of Islamophobia in the IRA’s propaganda ca
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Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxi, 326 pp.
"This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist
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Spreading Like Wildfire: The Securitization of the Amazon Rainforest Fires on Twitter
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 91-111
"As a tool of political communication and information diffusion, social media has transformed the process of securitization, allowing (in)security messages to spread and scale up rapidly. Focusing on the case of the Amazon rainforest fires in 2019, this article seeks to answer two questions: How doe
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Discourses on Electoral Law Reform in Tanzania’s Social Media: A Case of Two Selected Twitter(X) Accounts, JamiiForums and Maria Sarungi
Nyegezi-Malimbe: St Augustine University of Tanzania, Master Thesis (2024), vii, v, 185 pp.
"This research examines the political discourse surrounding electoral law and constitutional reforms in Tanzania, utilizing Jürgen Habermas's Public Sphere Theory as the theoretical lens. Employing critical discourse analysis (CDA), the study analyzes social media discussions, particularly on Twitt
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Populism Fuels Hate Speech and Disinformation: Evidence From Political Discourse on X (Formerly Twitter) in India and Pakistan
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5694-5713
"This study discusses the relationship among the various dimensions of populism, hate speech, and disinformation within the political discourse on X (formerly Twitter) in India and Pakistan. Employing manual content analysis, we examined 7,141 posts from both populist and non-populist political lead
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The Effects of Flagging Propaganda Sources on News Sharing: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Twitter
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 4 (2023), pp. 909–928
"While research on flagging misinformation and disinformation has received much attention, we know very little about how the flagging of propaganda sources could affect news sharing on social media. Using a quasi-experimental design, we test the effect of source flagging on people’s actual sharing
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Exploring the Use of #MyAnglophoneCrisisStory on Twitter to Understand the Impacts of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 3 (2023), pp. 418-439
"Since October 2016, Cameroon has been involved in a violent conflict known as the Anglophone Crisis. This study examines the impact of the hashtag #MyAnglophoneCrisisStory on Twitter in capturing and amplifying the stories of people affected by the crisis. Using R, the authors extracted and analyze
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The Digital Battlefield: The Taliban’s Case of Co-opting Social Media for Warfare and Governance
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 20 pp.
"This paper delves into the paramount significance of social media in contemporary warfare, shedding light on the critical need for effective measures to counter online radical narratives and prevent the spread of violent extremism. It explores how autocratic and repressive groups like the Taliban e
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Metavoicing, trust-building mechanisms and partisan messaging: A study of social media usage by selected South African female politicians
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 13 (2023), pp. 2575-2597
"This study investigates social media usage patterns, Twitter’ frequency use and message typologies of selected South African female politicians’. Using the digital public sphere theory as a lens, the study considers six hundred Twitter posts from six female politicians from the African National
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Media, Governance and Accountability in Nigeria
Ibadan: Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) (2023), xiii, 280 pp.
Tweeting for Religion: How Indonesian Islamic Fundamentalist Organizations Use Twitter
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 22, issue 1 (2023), pp. 1-16
"This study investigates how Islamic fundamentalists groups in Indonesia use Twitter to communicate with their stakeholders to achieve organizational goals. Based on previous work, three main functions of the use of social media by organizations were examined: spreading information, building and mai
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The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 246 pp.
"In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on disp
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The last Twitter census: Examining baseline metrics for Twitter users during a period of dramatic change
VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (2023), 77 pp.
"This report compares two large random samples of Twitter accounts that tweet in English: one taken just before Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022, and one taken three months later, in January 2023. It also examines several related datasets collected during the period following the acquisiti
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