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Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression
London et al.: Zed Books (2023), xxi, 234 pp.
"With contributions from scholars across the continent, Digital Citizenship in Africa illustrates how citizens have been using VPNs, encryption, and privacy-protecting browsers to resist limits on their rights to privacy and political speech. This book dramatically expands our understanding of the v
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Social Media Activism for Civilian Supremacy in Myanmar and Pakistan
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 14 pp.
"In Myanmar and Pakistan, anti-democratic forces including an alliance of military and right-wing political factions are dominating political affairs despite both countries’ constitutions defining democratic processes. Consequently, the authoritarian rule has been looming in these countries. The a
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Social media images and conflicts
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 137 pp.
"This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in rela
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Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia: An Anthology of Emerging and Contemporary Issues
Lexington Books (2023), xiii, 365 pp.
"Central Asian post-independence media and communication industries, professional practices, education, persisting and evolving values, and traditions remain critically understudied with a notable scarcity of research and scholarly publications on the complex and increasingly changing communicative
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Women's Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 310 pp.
"This book showcases the online activism of women's groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women's struggles on other political and environme
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Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvii 314 pp.
"This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the
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Digit@l China: Überwachungsdiktatur und technologische Avantgarde
München: Beck (2023), 190 pp.
"Mit parteistaatlicher Unterstützung avancierten die großen IT-Unternehmen Chinas seit Ende der 1990er Jahre schnell zu den Motoren der am dynamischsten wachsenden Digitalwirtschaft der Welt. Sie adaptierten zunächst Produkte und Geschäftsmodelle aus dem Ausland, gingen danach aber eigene Wege.
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Evaluation of EngageMedia’s Project ‘Digital Rights and Video for Change: Building the Movement in Southeast Asia’
Sundbyberg: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2023), vi, 109 pp.
"This report presents a final evaluation of EngageMedia’s project «Digital Rights and Video for Change: Building the Movement in Southeast Asia», funded by the Embassy of Sweden Bangkok. The evaluation covered activities from September 2019 to August 2022 in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand,
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Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 207 pp.
"Bringing together 15 journalism scholars from around the world, this book explores and offers solutions to the common issues and inadequacies of reporting on sexual violence in the media. Presenting a range of conceptual, methodological, and empirical chapters, the book tackles issues related to, o
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The World Congress of Families: Anti-Gender Christianity and Digital Far-Right Populism
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 2805-2822
"Anti-gender groups defend heteronormative and traditionalist views of family values and include both conservative Christian and far-right political actors. Moreover, these groups often rely on digital communication. Through a qualitative analysis of videos, tweets, and press releases produced durin
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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 590 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa stands as an authoritative and up-to-date resource on the critical debates, research methods and ongoing reflections on how gender and communication intersect with the economic, social, political, and cultu
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Hashtag activism: An alternative pathway for the transnationalization of protests a case study of #SaveSheikhJarrah
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2023), pp. 157-177
"Digital media have provided activists with communication and organizational tools that have revolutionized the work of social movements. This article contributes to the literature on the role of digital media in the transnationalization of protests by examining a case study of a digital advocacy ca
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The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell (2023), xvi, 550 pp.
"Rather than viewing the Middle East as a monolithic culture, this Handbook examines the diverse and multi-local characteristics of the region’s knowledge production, dynamic media, and rich cultures. It addresses a wide range of topics, including the evolving mainstream and alternative media, com
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Nonprofit digital advocacy: A complete campaign guide
Bonterra (2023), 16 pp.
‘Forced to report’: Affective proximity and the perils of local reporting on Syria
Journalism, volume 24, issue 2 (2023), pp. 280–294
"Based on interviews with Syrian media practitioners, this article uses the notion of affective proximity to make sense of local media practitioners’ reporting and witnessing of suffering in their country and community. I argue that the life-risking, and sometimes deadly, media practices of local
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Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo Era
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiv, 259 pp.
"Bringing together 14 journalism scholars from around the world, this edited collection addresses the deficit of coverage of violence against women in the Global South by examining the role of the legacy press and social media that report on and highlight ways to improve reporting. Authors investiga
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Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse
Lanham: Lexington Books (2022), vii, 137 pp.
"Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse explores how U.S. news and social media discourse hierarchies overshadow transnational feminist politics and reinforce femonationalist narratives, thereby unpacking how protesters' voices on the ground are obscured in favor of elite sourc
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Shifting Cyberfeminism and Gendered Activisms in the Gulf: A Saudi Feminist Spring?
Journal of Arabian Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-23
"This qualitative feminist study sheds light on women’s shifting identities, struggles, and resistances in the most conservative Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, unpacking the shifting socio-political and mediated environments in this country and their impact on gendered activism. Through conducting in-d
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Discursos y contenidos en el entorno digital: Análisis desde América Latina
Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2022), 247 pp.
"La aparición de las redes sociodigitales a mediados de la primera década de 2000 fue recibida con entusiasmo y recelo por diversos sectores sociales. Los ciudadanos vieron en espacios como Facebook, Twitter y, más recientemente, Instagram, una consolidación de la autocomunicación de masas plan
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