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Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 157 pp.
"This volume explores how, over the past decade, social media platforms have deeply penetrated the fabric of everyday life. The author considers South Africans’ use of wearable tech and use of online health and sports tracking systems via mobile phones within the broader context of the digital dat
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Tweeting Out Surveys to Pro-Ukraine Influencers: Exploring the Potential for Enlisting Support in the Information Fight Against Russia
RAND Corporation (2021), 23 pp.
"This study used Twitter advertisements to solicit survey participation from the most-influential members of pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia communities of Twitter users identified in an analysis of 25 million Russian language tweets emanating from Eastern Europe. Survey results suggest that pro-Ukraine
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Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2021), vi, 318 pp.
"As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed
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A Weapon of the Weak: Fighting Police Brutality Through Social Media
Hamburg: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2021), 12 pp.
"The 20 October 2021 marks the first anniversary of the shooting of unarmed protesters by the Nigerian military. The movement pushing to abolish the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has proved how social media can make the voices of the weak heard. However, recent developments surrounding social me
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Digital Anthropology
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2021), xii, 336 pp.
"Digital Anthropology 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the moral universal
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El efecto exilio: La oposición venezolana en el extranjero y las redes sociales
Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), iii, 25 pp.
The Routledge Encylopedia of Citizen Media
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxviii, 611 pp.
"Citizen Media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effec
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Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse
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Change the World Using Social Media
Lanham, Maryland et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2021), xxi, 209 pp.
"In this story-driven handbook to using social media to foster collaboration and positive change, people using social media describe how those tools work and how they have used social media to produce positive transformations within their extended communities. Starting with an overview of what socia
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The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp.
"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in
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Women organising in fragility and conflict: Lessons from the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Nigeria
Gender & Development, volume 29, issue 2-3 (2021), pp. 313-334
"Public protests, including women-led struggles, are increasingly gaining a foothold in many parts of the world in response to multiple crises and growing exclusion, in a context of fragility. In the global South, most public protests involve temporary, informal coalitions where people come together
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From Airtable to Zoom: An A-to-Z Guide to Digital Tech and Activism 2021
Deep Insights
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2021), 18 pp.
"This policy brief maps how activists are using technology to pursue public interests in human rights, democracy and a livable environment. It begins with a look at how cell phone tech has upped the outreach and mobilising game for campaigns, dives into digital storytelling and fundraising, explores
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Digital Authoritarianism and Nonviolent Action: Challenging the Digital Counterrevolution
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2021), 23 pp.
"This report examines how use of newer and emergent technologies affects nonviolent action campaigns. It identifies two significant related challenges and presents evidence of these dynamics at work in two digital autocracies, China and Russia." (About the report)
The Exile Effect: Venezuela’s Overseas Opposition and Social Media
Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), ii, 24 pp.
Media Culture in Nomadic Communities
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp.
"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com
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Bloggen gegen Rassismus: Holen wir uns das Netz zurück!
Key Guides
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2021), 203 pp.
"Fake News, Hate Speech und Rassismus im Netz: Soziale Medien bieten Menschen und Organisationen auch dafür eine Plattform. Wie kann man gegensteuern und selbst aktiv für Demokratie, Meinungsvielfalt und die Entgiftung des gesellschaftlichen Klimas eintreten? Said Rezek, Politikwissenschaftler und
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Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (2021), ix, 234 pp.
"In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have
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"The OPTIMA workflow is a compilation of new and existing resources, guides, methodologies, and more to assist individuals and activists before, during and after an Internet shutdown. The following repository is organized into four categories:
ADVOCACY RESOURCES. Designing effective advocacy campai
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