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From Grassroots Activism to Disinformation: Social Media in Southeast Asia
Singapore: ISEAS (2021), 277 pp.
"This book reflects on the role of social media in the past two decades in Southeast Asia. It traces the emergence of social media discourse in Southeast Asia, and its potential as a "liberation technology" in both democratizing and authoritarian states. It explains the growing decline in internet f
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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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"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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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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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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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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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 Stepping Into Visibility Model: Reflecting on Consequences of Social Media Visibility – a Global South Perspective
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2021), pp. 405-424
"This article discusses activists’ need to reflect on how achieving social media visibility might translate into vulnerability. In order to provide activists with a tool for this reflection, the Stepping into Visibility Model has been developed and applied to two case studies: (a) an activist grou
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Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 430 pp.
"This book frames digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to critically partake in the digital transformation. Emphasizing a political and transformative significance of the term, this interdisciplinary publication gathers sc
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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 142 pp.
"Hear #metoo in India examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment feminist activism in India. Including 75 interviews with rural and subaltern feminist activists and journalists working in urban and rural regions of India, the book proposes a nuanced framework of agenda
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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)
Theorising Media and Conflict
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), x, 339 pp.
"Theorising Media and Conflict is the result of a joint and interdisciplinary effort to set the theoretical and empirical agenda in theorising upon the complex relationship between media and conflict. By considering the theorisation work accomplished by the ‘Anthropology of Media’ series forerun
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Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 276 pp.
"This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, considering issues of access,
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Activismo mediático hÃbrido: EcologÃas, imaginarios, algoritmos
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2020), 245 pp.
"[Esta publicación] investiga y reflexiona sobre las complejidades, ambigüedades y vacÃos del activismo digital. Partiendo de un trabajo de campo sobre movimientos sociales, colectivos y partidos polÃticos en España, Italia y Méijco, Emiliano Treré desentraña la naturaleza hÃbrida del activ
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Farmers' Protest: Digital Activism on Facebook
Jeevadhara: A Journal for Socio-religious Research, volume 50, issue 295 (2020), pp. 47-54
"This study analyses the content of the messages on the Facebook Page 'Support for Farmers' from the premise of Habermas's 'Public Sphere'. The results show that the discussions in support of the farmers' protest on Facebook galvanized the public interest on the problematic issues faced by farmers a
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Digital Democracy
International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 36, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-68
Propaganda des „Islamischen Staats“: Formen und Formate
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), vi, 411 pp.
"Die Propaganda der terroristischen Miliz "Islamischer Staat" hat für Aufsehen gesorgt und die Debatte um das Internet und vor allem das "Social Web" als Risikotechnologie oder Gefahrenraum mitbestimmt. Dabei setzt der IS auf ein breites Spektrum medialer und gestalterischer Formen und Formate eine
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