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How Afghan women amplify their voices through digital activism: A study of global engagement and local cultural resistance
Journal of Multicultural Discourses, volume 21, issue 3 (2026), pp. 346-369
"Under Taliban rule, Afghan women, who make up more than half of the country’s population, face systematic restrictions in accessing education, employment, and other fundamental rights. Despite efforts to silence their voices, Afghan women have not given up; they have adopted Innovative strategies
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New Forms of Civic Resistance and Activism
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xx, 279 pp.
"This interdisciplinary collection examines how contemporary movements are reshaping political, social, and environmental landscapes through both online and offline means, including creative expression and grassroots mobilisation. Analysing non-violent activism, political resistance, mobilisation, r
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De Gruyter Handbook of Media and Social Change in the Global South
Berlin: De Gruyter (2026), xii, 564 pp.
"The birth of the newspapers, radio and television in the 19th century brought various interconnected social, behavioral and cultural changes in the lives of the colonizer and the colonized in the economically ‘developing’ nations. Then in the 20th century and now the 21st century, the birth of
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Kid Influencers as Change Agents for Social Justice in Brazil
In: Handbook of Communication, Media, and Digital Technologies in Iberoamerica
Walter de Gruyter (2026), pp. 228-264
"This study explores the emergence of kid influencers in Brazil as active participants in the promotion of social justice, specifically focusing on the deconstruction of structural racism and the affirmation of Black identity. Despite high internet penetration in Brazil (84% of households), signific
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Handbook of Communication, Media, and Digital Technologies in Iberoamerica
Berlin: De Gruyter (2026), ix, 414 pp.
"The chapters address current discourses and debates on digital citizenship, information quality and news literacy, privacy and identity, as well as forward-looking discourses on emerging technologies (including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the metaverse) and their intersection with
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Code of Courage: A Comic About Digital Security for Activists
Technische Universität Darmstadt (2025), 20 pp.
"Security is paramount - online and offline. Maria, Alex, Sarah, and Daniel are four friends deeply committed to human rights activism in a country grappling with increasing authoritarianism. Their efforts to organize and amplify their message on social media are met with relentless challenges: inte
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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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Memes, humor, and the far right’s strategic mainstreaming
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 4 (2025), pp. 537–556
"The far right is increasingly relying on visual and less extreme online communication, for instance by using memes, to strategically mainstream their ideology. The use of humor in particular renders their communication more relatable to a mainstream audience. However, little is known about the actu
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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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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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Smartphone resilience: ICT in Ukrainian civic response to the Russian full-scale invasion
Media, War & Conflict, volume 18, issue 3 (2025), pp. 305-324
"In modern warfare, digitalization has blurred the line where civilian ends and military begins. Embedded in the participative warfare theoretical paradigm, this article looks into how the information and communication technologies (ICT) enable civic resilience under the conditions of the foreign ar
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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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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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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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"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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Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa
London: Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xviii, 222 pp.
"This open access edited collection offers the first-ever book-length volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa. It offers multiple, theoretically grounded case studies by African researchers covering countries across the length and breadth of the continent, including non-majority-English cou
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Understanding Video Activism on Social Media
Bristol, UK: Intellect (2025), x, 224 pp.
"What political power do social media videos have? In what ways do they exert influence, shape public discourse, and change political life? How can participants in this field assert themselves against commercial interests, anti-democratic agitation, and authoritarian propaganda? These questions are
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Communicating a World-in-Crisis
New York: Peter Lang (2025), xiv, 391 pp.
"We live in a world increasingly defined by systemic, deepening and compounding crises. They threaten not only future human existence but also the planetary web-of-life. With the help of academics, creative practitioners and activists, this book explores some of the innovative ways in which differen
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Design Thinking as a Strategic Approach to E-Participation: From Current Barriers to Opportunities
Cham: Springer (2025), x, 121 pp.
"This open access book examines how the adoption of Design Thinking (DT) can support public organisations in overcoming some of the current barriers in e-participation. Scholars have discussed the adoption of technology to strengthen public engagement through e-participation, streamline and enhance
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African insights 2025: Citizen engagement, citizen power: Africans claim the promise of democracy
Accra: Afrobarometer (2025), 45 pp.
"Afrobarometer public-attitude surveys have been tracking citizen engagement on the continent for 25 years. This report, the second in an annual series on high-priority topics, draws on data spanning the past decade, including the latest round of nationally representative surveys in 39 countries, r
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