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Conceptualizing Consumption-Critical Media Practices as Political Participation
In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment
Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 197-211
"Consumption-Critical media practices are those practices which are either using media for criticising (certain) consumption or which are (consciously practiced) alternatives to the consumption of media technologies such as repairing, exchanging or producing durable media technologies. While the for
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The Importance of Participation in Development Through Community Radio: A Case Study of Nkhotakota Community Radio Station in Malawi
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (2016), pp. 45-61
"This article examines the role of participation in development through community radio. Ordinary people participate in community radio through programme production, financing, management and the daily operations of the station. This enables them to define the development problems faced by their com
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Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 539-562
Trusted Voices in Challenging Times: Civil Society and Media Leadership (CSML) Program. Final Report
"For over five and one-half years, the Civil Society and Media Leadership (CSML) Program, led by IREX in partnership with The Carter Center and Social Impact, contributed to building a more capable, collaborative, and agile civil society and media sector in Liberia. The CSML team provided intensive
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Suenan Ondas de Paz! Ondas ciudadanas que transforman
Bogotá: Cantoyaco Red de Emisoras Comunitarias del Putumayo; Grupo Comunicarte (2016), 56 pp.
"Esta guía metodológica busca facilitar a los locutores, presentadores de programas radiales, líderes comunitarios, educadores y agentes sociales una herramienta de ayuda para animar y estimular el trabajo de reflexión y formación de grupos en el conocimiento y divulgación de los temas de los
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Africa’s Voices Versus Big Data? The Value of Citizen Engagement Through Interactive Radio
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 155-171
"We draw on insights from a two-year research project, Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA), and the related applied research pilot, Africa’s Voices, which worked with local radio stations in eight Sub-Saharan African countries. We examine the social and political significance of new op
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Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism
Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2015), xiii, 366 pp.
"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West
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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.
"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co
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Mais conectados, mais comuns? Recursos digitais nas experiências midiáticas apresentadas no 8º Mutirão Brasileiro de Comunicação
In: Comunicação popular, comunitária e alternativa no Brasil: sinais de resistência e de construção da cidadania
São Bernardo do Campo: UMESP (2015), pp. 222-245
"Este artigo é o relato de um exercício realizado para o desenvolvimento de categorias de análise do uso de mídias por coletivos e movimentos sociais no Brasil. Parte-se do pressuposto que os conceitos teóricos do campo da comunicação popular, alternativa e comunitária, construídos principa
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 16 pp.
"Egypt’s plummeting press freedom is in part a result of the many ways in which the state can put pressure on independent media under Egyptian law. While the January 2014 constitution contains clear protections for the media (including, under Article 71, bans on censorship and surveillance), many
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Social media as a heteroglossic discursive space and Kenya's emergent alternative/citizen experiment
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 66-81
"This article critically reflects on how social media platforms such as Twitter (read here as a heteroglossic text and space) enable and encourage public participation in wider national conversations. The article explores this through the work of key bloggers/activists and citizen journalists, refle
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Speaking Up for the Suffering (br)other: Weibo Activism, Discursive Struggles, and Minimal Politics in China
Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 4 (2015), pp. 513-529
"In order to offer a more nuanced account of the relationship between online media and politics, this article proposes a theoretical framework that pays attention to discursive struggles, identifies strategies to contest hegemonic discourses, and employs a broadened notion of politics, referred to a
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Voces abiertas: Comunicación, política y ciudadanía en América Latina
Buenos Aires: CLACSO; Ediciones de Periodismo y Comunicación (EPC) (2015), 313 pp.
Theorizing Citizenship in Citizen Journalism
Digital Journalism, volume 3, issue 5 (2015), pp. 704-719
"Citizen journalism has become a prominent term referring to a variety of newsgathering and reporting practices conducted via a range of new digital technologies. The scholarly literature on citizen journalism, however, has tended to concentrate on its significance for journalism theory and practice
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Radio Listening Clubs in Malawi as Alternative Public Spheres
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 13, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 105-120
"Many people in rural areas in Malawi lack access to information due to illiteracy and the unavailability of reliable sources of information. There is also an absence of a proper forum where rural ordinary people can express their views and have their voices heard. However, in communities where ther
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.
"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi
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"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness
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