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Political Activism 2.0: Comparing the Role of Social Media in Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” and Iran’s “Twitter Uprising”
CyberOrient, volume 6, issue 1 (2012), pp. 8-33
"Social media, particularly blogging, Facebook and Twitter, have played a key role in instigating, accelerating and even organizing some of the uprisings and revolutions that have been taking place all over the Middle East. This role has been effective in galvanizing the youth and empowering them in
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Mapping Digital Media: Bosnia and Herzegovina
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 94 pp.
"Both media organizations and the organization of media in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been profoundly affected by ethnocentrism, political clientelism, the withdrawal of international donors, and the financial crisis. As a result, the country’s march towards digitization has been protracted and u
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Social Media, Social Movements and the Diffusion of Ideas in the Arab Uprisings
Journal of International Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (2012), pp. 97-111
"This article studies the 2011 Arab uprisings as social movements for political reform and regime change. Social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter, are perceived to be playing a central role in these events, which have even been described as ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter revolutions’. Using
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Mapping Digital Media: China
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 127 pp.
Mapping Digital Media: Georgia
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 101 pp.
"This report finds that the momentous change in ownership transparency regulation and the dynamic and free online environment are the most notable success stories since 2005. Yet these achievements are overshadowed by the lack of independence of the broadcasting regulator and the public broadcaster,
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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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The Tunisian diaspora: Between “digital riots” and web activism
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 21 pp.
"This article deals with the increasing connections among the Tunisian diaspora and its homeland provided by a widespread use of the social Web. The main aim is to evaluate to what extent the Tunisian diaspora has contributed to a wider diffusion of cyberactivism concerning legitimate claims for dem
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Mapping Digital Media: Russia
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 96 pp.
"The growing prominence of online media as a source of news marks the biggest shift in news consumption. Nearly half of all internet users—or more than 20 million people—regularly read news online. The internet is virtually the only platform where criticism of the government is tolerated. There
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Revolution 2.0? Die Bedeutung digitaler Medien für politische Mobilisierung und Protest
In: Globale Trends 2013: Frieden, Entwicklung, Umwelt
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (2012), pp. 157-172
Mapping Digital Media: Hungary
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 108 pp.
Mapping Digital Media: Croatia
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 100 pp.
"Croatia is well ahead of the curve. Experimental broadcasting via digital signals began in 2002 and the last analog television signals were switched off in September 2011. The country has the highest free-to-air digital terrestrial coverage in Europe, exceeding 99 percent of national territory, and
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Mapping Digital Media: Argentina
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 100 pp.
Mapping Digital Media: Chile
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 127 pp.
"Overall, digitization has only partly impacted on the media landscape in Chile. It has neither altered the neoliberal trajectory of media policy, nor reduced high levels of ownership concentration and incumbent advantages. But there is, at the very least, a framework in place that will potentially
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Digitale Herausforderung: Internationale Beziehungen in Zeiten / Web 2.0
Göttingen: Steidl; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2012), 188 pp.
"Der arabische Frühling war nicht nur der Beginn eines gesellschaftlichen und politischen Umwälzungsprozesses in Nordafrika, sondern auch der Startpunkt einer neuen außenpolitischen Ära im Zeichen / Web 2.0. Auch wenn die Bedeutung der Mobiltelefone und sozialen Medien, mit der die Oppositionell
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The Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Political Protest: Evidence from the Tunisian Revolution
Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (2012), 31 pp.
"Drawing on evidence from the popular protests in Tunisia between December 2010 and January 2011, expert interviews with Tunisian bloggers, and a web survey conducted among Tunisian Facebook users, this paper argues that social media (1) allowed a “digital elite” to form personal networks and ci
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Free Space of Expression: New Media and Thailand's Politics
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 72 pp.
"The rise of new media in Thailand has occurred during one of the toughest periods in Thailand’s recent political history. A political crisis since 2005 has created an increasingly divided society. Whilst Thailand’s press freedom was previously considered “free,” existing political challenge
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Ressource Ressentiment: Internet-Subkultur und Politmarketing
Osteuropa, volume 62, issue 6-8 (2012), pp. 191-208
"Ein Teil der Subkulturen des russischen Internets unterstützt heute offen und aggressiv das Regierungslager. Insbesondere sind dies die sogenannten padonki („Prolls“), die mit ihrer falschen Orthographie und obszönen Lexik früher gezielt provozierten, deren Wortschöpfungen heute aber Teil d
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Mapping Digital Media: Nigeria
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 94 pp.
"Only 40 percent of Nigerians had access to a television in 2008 according to the International Telecommunication Union, and radio is still the dominant medium, reaching three-quarters of households. Both commercial and state broadcasters favor urban audiences and those in the south of the country.
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Mapping Digital Media: Peru
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 94 pp.
"As with other countries in the region, Peru shows high levels of media concentration. Digitization has not yet aff ected the dominant positions in the Peruvian mass media market. On the contrary, the largest media groups’ hegemonic position has grown stronger. For example, the influence of Grupo
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