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Case Study: The #YoSoy132 Movement in Mexico
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 501-511
Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy
New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xiv, 203 pp.
"Some of the most remarkable impacts of digital media on political activism lie not in the new types of speech it provides to disorganized masses, but in the new types of listening it fosters among organized pressure groups. Beneath the easily visible waves of e-petitions, “likes,” hashtags, and
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Social Media in the Arab World: Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States
London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp.
"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp
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Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), viii, 327 pp.
"Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world. This volume examines this topic with interdisciplinary contributions that range across media studies, anthroplogy, religious studies, and political science and explore both new a
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Using the Universal Periodic Review for Human Rights Online
London: Global Partners Digital (2016), 31 pp.
"The guide is designed to help human rights defenders working on human rights online navigate the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, with resources and case studies of real life advocacy to help inform and structure engagement. It also provides examples of how the UPR has been used for human r
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African Digital Media Review, Issue 2
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-136
Citoyenneté numérique: Ce que l’Afrique prépare. Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, République démocratique du Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Sénégal
Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2016), 39 pp.
"L’approfondissement des pratiques démocratiques dans les pays étudiés passe non seulement par le renforcement des capacités des médias et des journalistes, pour qu’ils puissent s’emparer pleinement des outils numériques, mais aussi par la montée en puissance d’un grand nombre de nouv
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"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec
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The Impact of Counter-Narratives: Insights from a Year-Long Cross-Platform Pilot Study of Counter-Narrative Curation, Targeting, Evaluation and Impact
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD); Against Violent Extremism (AVE) (2016), 52 pp.
"This report presents the development, deployment, and evaluation of three counternarrative campaigns orchestrated by Against Violent Extremism (AVE) network and Jigsaw (an incubator within Alphabet that uses technology to address geopolitical issues) with additional in-kind and financial support fr
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Democracia digital, comunicação política e redes: Teoria e prática
Rio de Janeiro: Folio Digital; Letra e Imagem (2016), 427 pp.
"O livro é uma coletânea que reúne especialistas em Democracia Digital de diversas áreas (comunicação, administração, ciência política, sociologia etc.) para discutir questões conceituais e práticas que envolvem este campo. Temas como participação política e Internet, mídias sociais
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Digitalisation
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue April (2016), pp. 14-33
[...] , innovation enables developing economies to leapfrog technologies. Some former digital deserts have catapulted themselves into the information age. Landline telephony never reached the world’s poorer corners – even in the capital cities of developing countries. Mobile networks, however, s
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Case Study: Mídia NINJA and the Rise of Citizen Journalism in Brazil
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 527-532
Social Media, Community Development and Social Capital
Community Development Journal, volume 51, issue 3 (2016), pp. 419-435
"Initial growth in Internet use in the 1990s resulted in many digital pioneers viewing new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a means to radically empower people through new global connections and extensive social capital. This has extended into an interest in exploring how ICTs ca
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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xv, 236 pp.
"This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weib
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Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything
London: Tauris (2015), 212 pp.
"Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and
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Gendering the Arab Spring: Arab women journalists/activists, "cyberfeminism," and the sociopolitical revolution
Facebook, Twitter & Co.: Die politische Rolle sozialer Netzwerkmedien
"Mit Blick auf die Rolle sozialer Netzwerkmedien in arabischen Gesellschaften lässt sich resümierend festhalten, dass durch deren vielfältige Nutzungsmöglichkeiten während Protestphasen und unter den restriktiven Bedingungen autoritärer Herrschaft übergreifende bürgerschaftliche Identitäten
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Media, Revolution and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising
London: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 276 pp.
"The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country's democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president's
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Networked Erasure: Visualizing Information Censorship in Turkey
Convergence, volume 21, issue 2 (2015), pp. 257-278
"The essay analyses two cases of digital activism in Turkey, which visualize 'networked erasure' to illustrate how censorship is a systematic process. The first case, an interactive online database called Blocked Web, launched in 2007, collects and organizes data on state-classified web site bans, a
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