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Contagious Protests

Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov et al.

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. ... more

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The Augmented Archive: History in Real Time. An Archaeology of Images of the Egyptian Revolution

Kaya Behkalam, Knut Ebeling

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 5092-5107

"This study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a media-archaeological approach in both theory and practice: The media artist Kaya ... more

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Digital Citizenship Toolkit
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Nalaka Gunawardene (ed.)

MinorMatters;National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (2020), xiv, 185 pp.

"This Digital Citizenship Toolkit (DCT) is an attempt to introduce key concepts related to digital citizenship while taking into account the local socio-economic realities, technology adoption patterns, societal actions and other considerations. For young people, in particular, the demarcation betwe ... more

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Community Driven Governance and Service Delivery Audits in Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi: Africa’s Voices Foundation (2020), 60 pp.

"There is a strong consensus within the governance space that citizen engagement is integral in supporting social accountability and strengthening democracy. The impact of the modalities through which citizens make demands on the degree to which citizens feel empowered to trigger recognition and act ... ion from the duty holders remains an open question, more so in the Kenyan context where citizen engagement and social accountability align to the Constitution’s provisions on “public participation”. To this end, Africa’s Voices bridges this gap by deploying its innovative approach to civic engagement through the ‘Common Social Accountability Platform’ (CSAP) which uses interactive radio shows to achieve meaningful spaces of mediated public discussion between citizens and authorities that are valued by both and strengthens relations between them. The approach also provides evidence of citizen opinions in a form that supports policy action by authorities. In the Strengthening Public Accountability and Integrity Systems (SPAIS) pilot project, AVF focused the intervention on the urban poor settlements of Nairobi through a series of weekly interactive radio shows in three popular radio stations over a period of 2 months (8 shows per station for a total of 24 broadcasts over 8 weeks). While the shows explored a range of issues relevant to corruption, transparency, public participation and accountability, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the content of the discussions was largely focused on health governance and healthcare service delivery. The topics of discussion included overall citizen experience and satisfaction in healthcare service provision; appropriate utilisation of resources allocated to healthcare for COVID-19; and citizen perceptions of their role in ensuring and monitoring appropriate resource allocation for healthcare. The intervention also served as a mechanism for citizens to air concerns and grievances related to potential corruption incidents in the healthcare sector and beyond. This SPAIS project convenes large-scale, plural and inclusive accountability dialogues between authorities and citizens in urban poor settlements of Nairobi with a view to promote and uphold public accountability and the role that citizens can play in countering corruption, to enhance citizen perceptions of voice and efficacy, government recognition of and engagement with citizens, and ultimately the forging of trust between citizens and authorities. Moreover, this project aims to strengthen citizen engagement in the monitoring of healthcare service delivery in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and to provide trusted spaces for an exchange on matters related to the provision and quality of healthcare services. It envisions to draw rich insights from citizen voices and recommend programme options for UNDP and SPAIS partners to adapt future programming to the needs and opinions of citizens regarding tackling corruption in the health sector." (Introduction, page 7-8) more

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Mediated Sociability: Audience Participation and Convened Citizen Engagement in Interactive Broadcast Shows in Africa

Sharath Srinivasan, Claudia Abreu Lopes

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 ... more

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Calling for Coalitions: Building Partnerships Between Journalists and Advocates

Yi Chen, Gregory Francois, Ritubhan Guatam et al.

Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) (2020), 139 pp.

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Evaluating Hashtag Activism: Examining the Theoretical Challenges and Opportunities of #BlackLivesMatter

Diana Zulli

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2020), pp. 197-216

"This paper argues for the reexamination of hashtag activism from the theoretical frameworks of liveness and appropriation. Scholarly discussions of online activism have, for the most part, focused on if and how technology revolutionizes social and political movements. Going in a different direction ... more

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Digital Civic Engagement by Young People

Alexander Cho, Jasmina Byrne, Zoë Pelter

New York: UNICEF Office of Global Insight and Policy (2020), 26 pp.

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Civil Society in the Digital Age in Africa: Identifying Threats and Mounting Pushbacks

Hlengiwe Dube, Maristella A. Simiyu, Tomiwa Ilori

Pretoria; Kampala: Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria;CIPESA (2020), 78 pp.

"The report documents the threats to civil society in the digital age by examining the legislative and regulatory framework in four countries in Africa: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. These countries were selected from the four main geographic regions of Africa, in order to provide a sense ... more

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Political Participation in the Digital Age: An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany

Julia Tiemann-Kollipost

Bielefeld: transcript (2020), 221 pp.

"This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the Internet is responsible for citizens' participation practices from being general, high-threshold, temporally constricted, and dependent on physical prese ... more

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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria

Billie Jeanne Brownlee

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020), 296 pp.

"Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria’s social mobilisation but as a shift from online to o ... more

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Construire une stratégie de plaidoyer: De l'analyse au suivi-évaluation. Boîte à outils à destination des organisations de la société civile

Anaïs Saint-Gal, Marine Gauthier

Paris: Sidaction (2020), 75 pp.

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Conseils pratiques: Les étapes d’un plaidoyer efficace

EuroMed Rights (2020), 13 pp.

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Conflict and Social Media: Activism of Civil Society for Peace Between India-Pakistan

Qamar Jafri

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 ... more

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The Lebanese Uprising in the Digital Age

Karim Merhej, Elina Qureshi

CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 85-98

"On October 17, 2019, following the announcement of a tax to be placed on calls made via the mobile communication application WhatsApp, thousands of Lebanese citizens took to the streets to protest against this arbitrary decision. The protest quickly morphed into a country-wide uprising in which cit ... more

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Comunicação política digital

Freiburg: KoBra Kooperation Brasilien (2020), 5 pp.

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Farmers' Protest: Digital Activism on Facebook

Beulah Rachel Rajarathnamani

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 ... more

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Media and the Image of the Nation During Brazil's 2013 Protests

César Jiménez-Martínez

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 ... more

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Kommunikation und Aktion in der Krise: Wertewandel in Brasilien

Brasilikum (KoBra), issue 258-259 (2020), pp. 19-26

"Als Tagungsreader der ersten Runder Tisch Brasilien Online Fachtagung analysiert das vorliegende Heft die Kommunikationslandschaft Brasiliens neu. Wer bestimmt gesellschaftliche Diskurse? Auf welcher Basis? In der virtuellen politischen Arena 2020 geht es längst nicht mehr allein um politische Bot ... more

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Diálogo de saberes en colectivos de comunicación

Angela Piedad Garcés Montoya (ed.)

Medellín: Sello Editorial Universidad de Medellín (2020), 262 pp.

"Esta publicación sobre diálogo de saberes en colectivos recoge el espíritu del diálogo de saberes para reflexionar sobre temas recientes en los procesos de agrupación juvenil y sus formas de apropiación de medios y territorios, pues resulta pertinente pensar la ciudad y a través de las diná ... more

Digital Citizenship Toolkit Key Guidance

Digital Citizenship Toolkit
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