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Journalism Research That Matters
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021), 258 pp.
"Despite the looming crisis in journalism, scholarly research on the topic is often disconnected from the research that the news industry and journalists need and want, but do not have the time or expertise to do. This book provides valuable insights for journalists and scholars about news business
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Digitale Bildkulturen: Bildproteste, Screenshots, Hassbilder, Netzfeminismus und Selfies
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2021), 397 pp.
"Als Selfie oder im politischen Prozess, als gleichermaßen fluide wie langlebige Postings, in verstörenden Hassbildern oder als Labor des Feminismus wirken digitale Bilder in je eigenen Kontexten: Menschen inszenieren sich und werden inszeniert, vernetzen und bekämpfen sich, posieren und protesti
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Contagious Protests
World Bank Group (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores the spillover of protests across countries using data on nonviolent and spontaneous demonstrations for 200 countries from 2000 to 2020. Using an autoregressive spatial model, the analysis finds strong evidence of “contagious protests,” with a catalyzing role of social media.
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Safety of Journalists Covering Protests: Preserving Freedom of the Press During Times of Turmoil
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 16 pp.
"Key trends: Harassment, arrests and physical violence against journalists, mostly by government security forces and sometimes by protestors, have risen in recent years; Press freedom and freedom of expression has been impacted in many countries by these attacks; A range of attacks have been identif
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How Kenyans on Twitter Use Visuals as a Form of Political Protest
Kommunikation.Medien, issue 12 (2020), 27 pp.
"The growth of the Internet in the last two decades has helped increase political and civic en-gagement and scrutiny. The growth of a digital economy in Kenya has led to the emergence of a vibrant online community with 89.7 % of the population having access to the Internet. This paper examines how K
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Risk perception and negotiation of safety among Ugandan female journalists covering political demonstrations
"Safety of female journalists in and beyond the newsroom continues to stimulate debate on how risky environments can trigger self-censorship among journalists, yet few studies have investigated women journalists’ experience of risk in specific work contexts. This chapter examines the perception of
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Media and the Image of the Nation During Brazil's 2013 Protests
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xv, 219 pp.
"This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest. Focusing on the June 2013 protests in Brazil, it examines how different actors -authorities, activists, the national media, foreign correspondents- disseminated compe
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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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Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State
Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 51 pp.
"The discussion is based on an analysis of 46 protest songs, interviews with musicians, music producers and event promoters as well as field interviews and observations among audiences at selected popular music concerts and public workshops in Maputo city. Secondary data were drawn from radio broadc
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Berichterstattung über öffentliche Proteste in Kasachstan: Medienkontrolle als Quelle politischer Macht
Zentralasien-Analysen, issue 138 (2019), pp. 2-5
"Die Berichterstattung der kasachstanischen Massenmedien über Proteste im Lande folgt einer klaren Linie. Kleinere Proteste werden ignoriert. Wenn über größere Demonstrationen berichtet wird, kommen ihre Vertreter nicht zu Wort und ihre Forderungen werden nicht erwähnt. Stattdessen werden der i
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Satire and Protest: The Middle East Through Egyptian Cartoons
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 23 pp.
"This paper aims at examining how Egyptian popular culture shapes perception of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict through the widespread medium of political cartoons. The paper examines cartoons published in Egyptian newspapers after the American president, Donald Trump, announced in 2017 that th
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Of Blackouts and Bandhs: The Strategy and Structure of Disconnected Protest in India
[author] (2019), 54 pp.
"State governments in India have executed approximately half of the world’s known network shutdowns – large-scale, deliberate disruptions of Internet connectivity, cell phone service, or social media. India is also a hotbed of collective action with widely varying degrees of organization and coo
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The Power of Words: State Reactions to Protest Announcements
Comparative Political Studies, volume 52, issue 3 (2019), pp. 347-381
"Organizations often announce their protest activities prior to their implementation to mobilize awareness, recruit supporters, and receive media attention. We are interested in the effectiveness of protest announcements—that is, under what conditions governments make concessions to avoid having a
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Media in the Global Context: Applications and Interventions
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxii, 272 pp.
"This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values of nationals from the war regions. It identifies the cultural patterns in remote communities that have been 'diluted' by IT and the extent to which the changes impacted t
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Zwischen Handy und Straße: Zum Wandel politischer Protestformen in Bolivien
ila, issue 426 (2019), pp. 28-30
Protest Public Relations: Communicating Dissent and Activism
Boca Raton, FL: Routledge (2018), xvii, 300 pp.
"This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores how different theoretical paradigms speak of activism in relation to public relations. It focuses on the tactics employed in Turkey during the second-wave feminism. The bo
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Media effects: Ensaios sobre teorias da comunicação e do jornalismo. Vol. 3: Espiral do silêncio, enquadramento e contemporaneidade
Porto Alegre, Boa Vista: Editora Fi, Universidade Federal de Roraima (2018), 231 pp.
"Com um trabalho rigoroso, o volume 3: Espiral do silêncio, enquadramento e contemporaneidade nos proporciona uma viagem por temáticas desenvolvidas por pesquisadores das distintas regiões brasileiras. Articulando investigações que pautam significativas contribuições teóricas, os oito capít
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