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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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Authoritarianism, Digital Dissidence and Grassroots Media in the Middle East and North Africa Region
CyberOrient, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 4-27
"As an introduction to this special issue of CyberOrient, this text provides an insight into ongoing research in studies of digital layers of revolutions, digital communication, and dissidence in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region. Providing a short overview of the latest development
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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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Knowledge and Legitimacy: The Fragility of Digital Mobilisation in Sudan
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 35-53
"This paper examines digital mobilisation with respect to knowledge production, legitimacy and power in Sudan since new communication and surveillance technologies became widespread. Enthusiasm for digital opposition peaked with the Arab Spring and troughed through the repressive government apparatu
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Consumer Activism 2.0: Tools for Social Change
"To conclude, current Internet-based innovations, including Web 2.0 tools and the wherewithal to use these tools, have given consumers a new form of freedom, and voice. As such, they are more apt to start campaigns, expose social injustices, and demand change from the institutions concerned. We cont
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Medios sociales y acción colectiva en Chile
Santiago de Chile: Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo (2019), 135 pp.
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)
#meinung #macht #digital #plattformkapitalismus
ila, issue 426 (2019), pp. 4-40
"WhatsApp und Facebook werden auch in Lateinamerika massiv genutzt, vor allem aufgrund ihres vermeintlich kostenlosen Charakters. Auch dort wird das Problem der rechten Meinungsmache und der Fake News diskutiert, denn die Tatsache, dass sich die Leute heute vor allem über Werbeplattformen informier
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Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 151-176
"My focus in this chapter is on civil society mobilization in Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar, and particularly in Kanbauk, a village of about 1,500 households in the Tanintharyi Hills, eighty kilometres north of the regional capital, Dawei. In recent years, Kanbauk villagers have contended w
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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 and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp.
"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra
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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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Digital Activism and Indignation Nets in Brazil: The Pressure Groups
Journal of Politics in Latin America (JPLA), volume 11, issue 1 (2019), pp. 109-130
"This text, of exploratory stamp, debates the digital activism in contemporary Brazil. Methodologically, we will make a discussion on cyberactivism, digital media, and national pressure groups starting from two examples, Movimento Brasil Livre (The Free Brazil Movement) and Vem pra Rua (Come to The
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Online Activism in Latin America
New York; London: Routledge (2019), ix, 317 pp.
The Shrinking Civic Space in East Africa
Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 19 pp.
Donor Assistance in the Transparency and Accountability Movement
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2019), 36 pp.
Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa
Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.
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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Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2019), viii, 216 pp.
"Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital is a critical introduction to communication for social change (CSC) theory. The book presents refreshingly new perspectives and specifically makes the case for CSC theory to factor in context, leanings from social movements
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