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Digital Citizenship Education Handbook: Being online, Well-being online, Rights online
Key Guides
Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2022), 135 pp.
"The Digital citizenship education handbook is intended for teachers and parents, education decision makers and platform providers alike. It describes in depth the multiple dimensions that make up each of 10 digital citizenship domains, and includes a fact sheet on each domain providing ideas, good
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Digitalisation and Civic Space: Chances and Challenges
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2022), 58 pp.
"Multifaceted, uncensored, promoting democracy - that is the internet, many people had long hoped. But from today's perspective, this is not true - or only partially. Because the big digital platforms and the world wide web are both: media of freedom and control. In many places, they support civil s
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"Through our booklet we do not want to encourage just "any kind" of online expression. We want to promote a specific way to express oneself online. Our intention is to stimulate structured and socially oriented active participation online, as a continuation of Civil Society Organisations' effort to
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Media Culture in Nomadic Communities
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp.
"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com
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Using Social Media to Strengthen the Political Participation of Young Women and Men in Nigeria
London: BBC Media Action (2021), 3 pp.
"The EU Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU SDGN) project funded by the EU employed a ‘social media first’ approach to strengthen the political knowledge, understanding, discussion and efficacy of young (18-24 years) women and men across all 36 states and FCT in Nigeria. High-impact
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Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 323 pp.
Der Wert der Digitalisierung: Gemeinwohl in der digitalen Welt
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 437 pp.
"Wie wahren wir die Menschen-, Grund- und Bürgerrechte? Und wie können wir unsere Werte für die Gestaltung disruptiver Innovationen und der digitalen Zukunft nutzen? Die Autor*innen aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Praxis zeigen auf, wie technologische Phänomene mit unseren Werten in Einklang gebra
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"The Serbian government prioritizes digitalization. Serbia’s digital transformation accelerated in 2017 with the government’s focus on building a digital government, or “digitalization” as defined by Serbians, and Serbia’s participation in the Digital Agenda for the Western Balkans. As one
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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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Explicating Engagement: An Exploratory Mapping and Critical Discussion of a Contested Concept
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 18, issue 1 (2021), pp. 244-265
"With the diffusion of the internet, media and communication research witnessed the emergence of a new term, ‘engagement’. Although, the term is widely used it is poorly defined and in need of explication. Through semantic network analysis, the analysis shows how traditions, as varied as audienc
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"Civil society technology, or civic tech, is one of the novel notions introduced by the digital age – a new form of social interaction and implementation of fundamental human rights. The dominating discourse that civic tech is about optimising and digitising public services is challenged by the ex
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Redes sociales y ciudadanía: Hacia un mundo ciberconectado y empoderado
Deep Insights
Huelva: Grupo Comunicar Ediciones; Alfamed (2020), 847 pp.
"Esta es una obra miscelánea que se adentra, desde múltiples perspectivas, en las interacciones entre educación y comunicación por medio de la influencia global de las redes sociales. En un contexto hiperconectado, pero no necesariamente ‘empoderado,’ resulta esencial la formación en compet
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Online Community Moderation
Key Guides
Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 12 pp.
"This knowledge brief showcases RNW Media's experience with online community moderation. It explains what community moderation means, why we believe it is an essential component of our Citizens' Voice programme, and the strategies we have developed together with our moderators to guide them in the w
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Developing a Civil Society Response to Online Manipulation
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2020), 30 pp.
"This document presents a vision for a grand, civil societal response to online manipulation: developing the capability to detect it; the coalitions to confront it, the strategies to prevent it, and the structures of cooperation and funding that are needed to do both across all the causes and issues
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Digital Civic Engagement by Young People
New York: UNICEF Office of Global Insight and Policy (2020), 26 pp.
Conflict and Social Media: Activism of Civil Society for Peace Between India-Pakistan
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 15 pp.
"This policy brief examines the work of civil society activists struggling for peace by using social media around the world. Drawing from extensive field research, as well as the social media actions of activists and civil society members of India, Pakistan and beyond, this brief explains how the so
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Participatory Media Cultures: Virality, Humour, and Online Political Contestations in Kenya
Africa Spectrum, volume 55, issue 2 (2020), pp. 148-169
"The article seeks to discuss varied forms of citizen engagement in the era of Internet viral cultures, ranging from (1) the use of social media for online protest, characterised by political contestation and fleeting outbursts of anger and backlash in the Twittersphere, to (2) the appropriation of
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"Kenya’s digital ecosystem has significant strengths not yet fully leveraged:
• Political interest in digital technology at national and county level: The Government of Kenya’s
(GoK) digital economy blueprint, ICT Masterplan, and eCitizen (government service platform for
Kenyan citizens and re
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Mediated Sociability: Audience Participation and Convened Citizen Engagement in Interactive Broadcast Shows in Africa
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 2985-3006
"This article examines what drives audience participation in interactive broadcast shows, with implications for the democratic potential of these shows as spaces of citizen engagement and public discussion. It makes three contributions, the first two to audience and media studies and the last to pol
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