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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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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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#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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"This review looks back over 11 years of civil society advocacy in the information society – a total of 510 country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) from 2007 to 2017. It covers a period of important global shifts, from the exponential growth and influence of social
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Lobbying for life: Violence against the press and the public interest
"This chapter investigates the relationship between civic networking coalitions and public interest communication, and an opportunity to explore how the coalitions produce 'public interest-forming practices'. It examines the ability of civic networking coalitions to act and, next, to investigate whi
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Digital Civil Society: Wie zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen im Web 2.0 politische Ziele verfolgen
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), 317 pp.
"Jasmin Fitzpatrick widmet sich aus politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen und untersucht, wie diese das Potenzial der neuen Kommunikationskanäle des Web 2.0 nutzen. Im Fokus stehen zum einen ihre Mobilisierung von Unterstützern und zum anderen ihre Absicht, d
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Bürgerbeteiligung in der Praxis: Ein Methodenhandbuch
Bonn; Wien: Stiftung Mitarbeit; Österreichische Gesellschaft für Umwelt und Technik (ÖGUT) (2018), 320 pp.
"Bürgerbeteiligung ist keine Zauberei, sondern ein Handwerk, das sich lernen lässt. Zu diesem Handwerk gehört auch das Wissen um die Methoden, Verfahren und Anwendungsbereiche dialogorientierter Bürgerbeteiligung. Das Buch unternimmt einen sachkundigen und erfahrungsbasierten Streifzug durch die
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Atlas der Zivilgesellschaft: Report zur weltweiten Lage
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2018), 67 pp.
Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity: Transdisciplinary Approaches
New York; London: Routledge (2018), vi, 220 pp.
"As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals’ engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world
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Content of Vernacular Radio Stations Programs and Public Participation in Devolved Governance in Nyeri County, Kenya
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2018), pp. 70-81
"The study has concluded that there exists a positive relationship between vernacular radio programming content and participation of community in issues of governance. Therefore, it is recommended that vernacular radio stations should give more attention to the content of these programs. Priority sh
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This is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
Deep Insights
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2018), 352 pp.
"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement
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Civic Media Practice: Identification and Evaluation of Media and Technology That Facilitates Democratic Process
MaxArthur Foundation (2018), 34 pp.
"Based on over 40 interviews with practitioners, this report identifies “civic media practice” as media and technology used to facilitate democratic process. It focuses specifically on those practitioners using media tools to form relationships and build trust - a practice that sometimes runs co
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A Cyberconflict Analysis of Chinese Dissidents Focusing on Civil Society, Mass Incidents and Labour Resistance
"This chapter employs the cyberconflict perspective (Karatzogianni 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012a: 52-73, 2012b: 221-46; Karatzogianni and Robinson 2010) to offer an in-depth analysis of Chinese dissidents in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focusing particularly on the 2000s. A distinction is drawn
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The Digital Natives Are Coming! How Social Media Are Changing Political Discourse in Kenya
KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2018), pp. 38-47
"Many factors seem to be coming together in Kenya that can pave the way towards a free, dynamic internet as a space for social and democratic freedoms. On the other hand, the newly re-elected government already exhibited authoritarian tendencies in the last legislative period and indicated – immed
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Ciudadanía digital & democracia participativa
Salamanca: Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publicaciones; CLACSO (2018), 252 pp.
"Ciudadanía digital y democracia participativa trata de describir experiencias concretas y procesos de apropiación y rebelión frente al actual statu quo tecnocrático a través de dos ejes conceptuales claramente definidos:--Propuestas teóricas y analíticas para el estudio de la Ciudadanía Dig
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Engagement im digitalen Zeitalter: Trends, Chancen und Herausforderungen
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Akademie Management und Politik (2018), 34 pp.
"Was gibt es in punkto Datenschutz und Datensicherheit für Non-Profits zu beachten und wie können sie Hass, Hetze und Parolen im Netz aktiv begegnen? Wie können zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen digitale Technik für Beratungsangebote oder NPO-Kampagnen erfolgreich einsetzen und offene Daten
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