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African Digital Media Review (3)
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-128
Les médias en Afrique depuis les indépendances: Bilan, enjeux et perspectives
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 268 pp.
Dangerous Disinformation
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue May (2018), pp. 23-38
"Intentionally fabricated fake news is an international phenomenon. Digital communication technology is exacerbating the impacts of political propaganda. Counter measures are needed, and they concern many different areas. Multinational tech corporations must be regulated, media users need a solid un
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A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders
Key Guides
Amsterdam: Public Data Lab (2018), 212 pp.
"The guide explores the notion that fake news is not just another type of content that circulates online, but that it is precisely the character of this online circulation and reception that makes something into fake news. In this sense fake news may be considered not just in terms of the form or co
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Facebook News Feed Changes: Impact and Actions
New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 27 pp.
"An MDIF analysis of the impact of Facebook’s Q4 2017 “Explore” News Feed test showed a steep decrease in traffic for test market publishers versus traffic changes for publishers in nearby regional markets. This report will explore the impact of the Explore changes in emerging markets, discuss
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Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar
BSR (2018), 60 pp.
"Facebook commissioned BSR to undertake a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the company’s presence in Myanmar. BSR undertook this HRIA between May and September 2018, using a methodology based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This assessment identifies and
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Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 462 pp.
"Analysing millions of news stories together with Twitter and Facebook shares, broadcast television and YouTube, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the architecture of contemporary American political communications. Through data analysis and detailed qualitative case studies of coverage o
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Ascendant India, Digital India: How Net Neutrality Advocates Defeated Facebook’s Free Basics
Media, Culture & Society, volume 40, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-431
"This article analyzes the 2015 campaign by net neutrality advocates against Facebook’s Free Basics service in India, and argues that their victory can be best understood by analyzing their privileged place in an India that imagines itself high tech and global. The advocates, predominantly tech wo
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Digital Trauma Processing in Social Media Groups: Transgenerational Holocaust Trauma on Facebook
Hungarian Historical Review, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 355-376
"In recent years, more and more social media (Facebook) groups have been created dealing with memories of the Holocaust in Hungary. In this article, I analyze and compare two groups, “The Holocaust and My Family” and “The Descendants of the Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust” in the fram
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New Media and Chinese Society
Puchong, Selangor (SG): Springer (2017), xvii, 290 pp.
From a Refugee Perspective: Discourse of Arabic Speaking and Afghan Refugees and Migrants on Social Media from March to December 2016
UNHCR (2017), 46 pp.
"The main thing I really liked about this project is that UNHCR invested the resources for proper qualitative social media monitoring, as opposed to the purely quantitative analyses that we see so often and which rarely go beyond keyword counting. To complement the social media information, the team
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Les musulmans de Facebook en Côte d’Ivoire: Nouvelle voie de socialisation, de da’wa et de mobilisation communautaire
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 53-70
"Ce travail porte sur l’usage des médias numériques dans les pratiques religieuses des musulmans en Côte d’Ivoire, dans un contexte de visibilité accrue de l’islam dans l’espace public depuis l’avènement du pluralisme politique en 1990. Il étudie l’entrée des musulmans dans l’è
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m
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Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2017), xv, 280 pp.
Médias 2.0 et Églises chrétiennes au Burkina Faso: Évangélisation numérique et contrôle du message
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 71-85
"La diffusion progressive d’Internet au Burkina Faso a entraîné récemment un foisonnement de l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux, principalement Facebook, par les Églises catholique et évangéliques. Cette utilisation est toutefois fortement conditionnée par un nombre restreint de gatekeepe
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Transnational Religious Practices on Facebook
CyberOrient, volume 11, issue 2 (2017), pp. 6-91
"The Yezidis' re-appropriation of their religion in recent years reveals their beliefs more clearly than ever: especially through media. The community uses Facebook as a tool to show its identity in a way that was unimaginable throughout its prior history. Today, cyberspace provides them an environm
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The Arab Social Media Report 2017: Social Media and the Internet of Things. Towards Data-Driven Policymaking in the Arab World
Deep Insights
Dubai: Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (2017), 85 pp.
"The report has two main parts. In the first part, we explore the questions discussed in the previous paragraphs [on the internet of things] through a regional survey spanning the 22 Arab countries. In the second part we continue the tradition set in the previous editions of the Arab Social Media Re
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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective
London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.
"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their
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"This study highlights the recent phenomenon of online social movements in Vietnam having some characteristics of the ‘horizontal networks’ and ‘mass self-communication’ conceptualised by theorist Manuel Castells. My arguments are developed on the basis of an analysis of original research in
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