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Why Radio is More Reliable Than Television During Social Protests: An Explanation Through Framing Theory
Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2025), 15 pp.
"This study applies the framing model of Semetko and Valkenburg (2000) to analyze media coverage of the Chilean social protests of 2019, with a particular emphasis on differences between radio and television coverage. This model uses 20 distinct questions to identify specific frames used in news rep
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Disinterested and Disillusioned? Information and Political Engagement Practices of Young People From Disadvantaged Backgrounds
Youth & Society (2025), 22 pp.
"Inequalities in news use and political participation exist among young people from (dis-)advantaged backgrounds which challenge the idea of informed citizens that can participate in democratic processes. Relating to self-actualizing (AC) and dutiful (DC) citizen identity paradigms and performative
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Regressive ‘alternative’ media and their role in disrupting the public spheres in Europe and Latin America
Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 205-234
"The emergence of alternative media is linked to the progressive social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, which aimed to democratize media production and amplify marginalized voices. Recently, regressive news sites have emerged, claiming to be “alternative” despite their far-right ideologies. As
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The power of humour
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 4 (2025), pp. 28-54
"All over the world, satirists courageously stand up for democratic values, often under extremely difficult conditions. Through their art, they create spaces for freedom and challenge authorities. On the other hand, extremists use humour for their political purposes too: They ridicule those who diss
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"This book examines how everyday activists can enhance their effectiveness. Leanne Kelly and Alison Rogers unpack theories from the social sciences to help find meaning, explain these feelings of inertia, and provide strategies to overcome them. Through lessons learned over their careers as evaluato
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Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers
Key Guides
New York; London: Routledge (2025), xii, 344 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises
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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.
"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t
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Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media
New York; London: Routledge (2024), xxv, 321 pp.
"This book explores visual political engagement online – how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in image-based social media posts, independent of collective actions. Looking beyond large digital soc
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"El conjunto de textos reunidos en este libro demuestra la vigencia histórica y actual de la comunicación popular en Nuestramérica - y más allá. De las iniciativas barriales a las construcciones algorítmicas, pasando por miradas ancestrales y decoloniales, la reflexión y practica de esta comu
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Mobilization for Protecting the Public Interest in the Media: Mapping Good Practices of Media Activism
Sarajevo; Ljubljana: Mediacentar; Peace Institute (2024), 51 pp.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar: The Evolution of the Digital Fight Against Authoritarian State Repression
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2224-2244
"This study examines #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar and attempts to understand the practice of hashtags in the struggle against digital repression. By using descriptive analysis methods and qualitative content analysis, this study argues that #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar is categorized into 4 distinct narrati
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La couverture médiatique des soulèvements iraniens 2022-2023 : Analyse de la presse française
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 179 pp.
"En septembre 2022, suite à l'assassinat d'une jeune fille kurde iranienne par les patrouilles d'orientation, l'Iran connaît des mois de soulèvements contre le régime. Si ces derniers adoptent de nouvelles formes de contestation, ils sont causés par les mêmes injustices que les précédents mo
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Global citizenship education in a digital age: Teacher guidelines
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 60 pp.
"In 2023, 79% of world’s youth between the age of 15-24 were using the internet. In this unfolding digital age, the role of education in general, and global citizenship education in particular, is crucial. It enables to equip all learners, especially the youngest ones, with the skills and competen
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Working towards healthier information ecosystems: Collective visions from civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean
Engine Room (2024), 89 pp.
"[...] while information ecosystems encompass a variety of actors (including those within both private and public sectors), this research focuses primarily on civil society actors, including those who use information for their work (as consumers, producers, nodes, or facilitators of information), do
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The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia
Jounal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 41-57
"The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the voices of the poor, and facilitate development a
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Democracy and AI: How Technological Progress Can Strengthen Democratic Structures
Potsdam; Berlin: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; iRights.Lab (2024), 39 pp.
"[...] this paper presents approximately 30 worldwide examples of successful AI use to promote various aspects of democracy. At the same time, the corresponding challenges that need to be addressed are highlighted. From the examination of international examples, the following theses can be derived:
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Asking for solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 523-545
"The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim
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