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New Forms of Civic Resistance and Activism
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xx, 279 pp.
"This interdisciplinary collection examines how contemporary movements are reshaping political, social, and environmental landscapes through both online and offline means, including creative expression and grassroots mobilisation. Analysing non-violent activism, political resistance, mobilisation, r
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Communication for Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Amplifying the Marginalized Voices
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xiv, 234 pp.
"Communication for Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Amplifying the Marginalised Voices examines how communication serves as a catalyst for transformative change across the continent. It demonstrates how dialogue, storytelling, and media can motivate action and promote progress towards more equit
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Climate Change Communication in Africa
Oxford: Routledge (2026), xxv, 328 pp.
"From legacy media’s framing of climate narratives to the mobilising potential of digital media, the volume examines the multi-faceted ways in which climate change is mediated through different communication channels and how different media can be harnessed to amplify African voices on climate cha
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume 3
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2026), xii, 372 pp.
"This third volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first and second volumes, namely by: 1) offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2014, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; 2) providing a n
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
Deep Insights
London; Thousan Oaks (Cailf.) et al.: Sage (2026), 800 pp.
"Spanning activism, governance, labor, industry, everyday life, and research methods, the handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary survey of the field. It explores how the internet and digital media have reshaped political participation, civil society, and national identity; how state regula
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Digital and Social Media in Africa
London: University of Westminster Press (2025), xi, 194 pp.
"This book provides case studies on the strategies used by African governments in monitoring and controlling digital and social media, as well as the implications of such actions for claims about media freedom and freedom of expression. Further, the book examines the human rights challenges posed by
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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil
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Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), vi, 249 pp.
"Personal stories have the power to stir the heart, compel us to act, and spark social change. While advocacy organizations have long used storytelling in campaigns, the role technology plays has increased. Today, invitations to "share your story" are widespread on advocacy organizations and politic
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Digital Media, Denunciation and Shaming: The Court of Public Opinion
Oxford: Routledge (2025), 118 pp.
"This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances of discrimination and injury that morally divide readers and at times risk unjust and disproportionate harm to those under scrutiny. Digital media denunciation has become a primary for
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Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers
Key Guides
New York; London: Routledge (2025), xii, 344 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises
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The Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America
London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (2025), xvii, 497 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America addresses the relationship between communication, politics and digital technologies in Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula, a geographical space linked by social, cultural and linguistic aspects. In recent years, digital media
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Media and Communication Systems for Sustainability in Nigeria
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxix, 541 pp.
"The aim of this book is to advance a research agenda on the potential role of media in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria. It provides a theoretical and empirical framework for explicating the potential place of media structures and institutions in tackling issues affecting s
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How Afghan women amplify their voices through digital activism: A study of global engagement and local cultural resistance
Journal of Multicultural Discourses (2025), pp. 1–24
"Under Taliban rule, Afghan women, who make up more than half of the country’s population, face systematic restrictions in accessing education, employment, and other fundamental rights. Despite efforts to silence their voices, Afghan women have not given up; they have adopted Innovative strategies
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Understanding Video Activism on Social Media
Bristol, UK: Intellect (2025), x, 224 pp.
"What political power do social media videos have? In what ways do they exert influence, shape public discourse, and change political life? How can participants in this field assert themselves against commercial interests, anti-democratic agitation, and authoritarian propaganda? These questions are
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Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa
London: Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xviii, 222 pp.
"This open access edited collection offers the first-ever book-length volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa. It offers multiple, theoretically grounded case studies by African researchers covering countries across the length and breadth of the continent, including non-majority-English cou
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Code of Courage: A Comic About Digital Security for Activists
Technische Universität Darmstadt (2025), 20 pp.
"Security is paramount - online and offline. Maria, Alex, Sarah, and Daniel are four friends deeply committed to human rights activism in a country grappling with increasing authoritarianism. Their efforts to organize and amplify their message on social media are met with relentless challenges: inte
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Jiangshanjiao, Do You Get Your Period? Understanding Feminist Expressions Against State Propaganda in China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3711-3729
"In February 2020, the Communist Youth League introduced two virtual idols, Jiangshanjiao and Hongqiman, on Weibo to gain political solidarity during COVID-19. However, the move sparked massive criticism for using an animated female idol while ignoring the needs of female medical workers in the pand
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Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2024), xiii, 241 pp.
"Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and polit
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Asking for solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 523-545
"The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim
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‘Solidarity Across Borders’: Online gender activism and the construction of a Middle East and North African regional public space
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 547-573
"Academic discourse frequently speaks of a gender violence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), suggesting a distinctive gender violence that is tied to a geographic location. Within the framework of a digital ethnography, this research examines whether gender activists operating in digital s
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