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Membership in News & Beyond: What Media Can Learn from Other Member-Driven Movements
Austin: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (2019), 45 pp.
"The traditional financial models for news are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival? We’re at a moment of profound transition and successive crisis for news. Our mission is to explore how membership models might help. A key takeaway
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Listening at the Local Level: The Role of Radio in Building Community and Trust
Media International Australia, volume 172, issue 1 (2019), pp. 74-88
"This article examines the role of local radio in the contemporary media environment, specifically as a site for community engagement. Previous research finds journalistic organisations, at the local level, are critical to the functioning of society and more needs to be understood about their contem
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The Media and Participatory Governance in Ghana: Trends and Challenges
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2019), 15 pp.
"Drawing on available data and literature, this paper begins with an introduction on the media landscape in Ghana and explains how the media have contributed to promoting participatory and accountable governance. It further discusses the trends, barriers of media and governance in Ghana and makes ke
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Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 241 pp.
"This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, thi
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Online Activism in Latin America
New York; London: Routledge (2019), ix, 317 pp.
Media Cultures in Latin America: Key Concepts and New Debates
New York; London: Routledge (2019), x, 198 pp.
Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa
Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.
The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 431 pp.
"From the Occupy movement to playful city-making to the gameful designs of the Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential campaigns, and the rise of citizen science and ecological games, this book shows how play is a key theoretical, methodological, and practical principle for comprehending such new for
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Documenting Syria: Film-Making, Video Activism and Revolution
London et al.: Tauris (2019), xiv, 321 pp.
"Since the 1970s, Syrian cinema masters played a defining role in avant-garde filmmaking and political dissent against authoritarianism. After the outbreak of violence in 2011, an estimated 500,000 video clips were uploaded making it one of the first YouTubed revolutions in history. This book is the
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Digital Activism Engagement Ecosystem: Creating Constructive Conversations on the Benbere, Habari and Yaga Blogging Platforms
Utrecht (NL): University of Applied Sciences, Master Thesis (2019), 42 pp.
"The premise of this research is that digital activism, like many other forms of online engagement work in an ecosystem. And just like the success of a species is largely dependent on environmental factors, and its reaction to those circumstances, so does the success of a digital activist platform.
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Making Journalism More Memberful: Practical Tips from 19 News Sites Around the World for How to Involve Your Supporters in the Work
Membership Puzzle Project (2019), 61 pp.
"Even at the most audience-informed organizations, journalists recognize the immense difficulty in making sense of what audience members and relevant experts know, particularly without presently available tools and ample staff. This work is hard, yet there is an increasing amount of interest in it.
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Donor Assistance in the Transparency and Accountability Movement
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2019), 36 pp.
#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation
University of Michigan Press (2019), ix, 365 pp.
"#identity is among the first scholarly books to address the positive and negative effects of Twitter on our contemporary world. Hailing from diverse scholarly fields, all contributors are affiliated with The Color of New Media, a scholarly collective based at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web
Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press (2019), 312 pp.
"A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies." (Publisher description)
Digitalisierung braucht Zivilgesellschaft
Robert Bosch Stiftung (2019), 176 pp.
Communication in Citizen Science: A Practical Guide to Communication and Engagement in Citizen Science
Leuven: Scivil (2019), 58 pp.
"Citizen science is a vast field. It covers the spectrum of research approaches and offers different methods for engaging volunteers with research in a variety of ways. Common to every citizen science project is a need to communicate with the public effectively. This to recruit and retain citizen sc
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Public participation and social accountability in Kenyan counties: A pilot study using interactive radio in Siaya
Nairobi; Cambridge: Africa's Voices Foundation; Urban Institute (2019), 34 pp.
"[...] this pilot study in Siaya County sought to assess what makes for more effective public participation in Kenya. In contributing to a timely policy concern about how to best meet the imperatives/aspirations of devolution, it sought also to address the limited empirical evidence in scholarship a
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