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Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xi, 265 pp.
"[This book] reflects on the extent to which films can play an active role in denouncing human rights abuses and exposing the struggle for visibility of different social movements and minorities. This collection explores Latin American cinema’s representations of human rights violators and oppress
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Les civic tech en Afrique: Citoyens et technologies pour dynamiser la démocratie. Premier bilan au Bénin, au Kenya, au Sénégal et en Tunisie
CFI (2018), 62, 25 pp.
"Dans ces quatre pays africains (Bénin, Kenya, Sénégal, Tunisie) où l’étude a été réalisée, il apparaît qu’à l’origine des civic tech se trouvent le plus souvent des citoyens et des citoyennes engagés, désireux de traduire leur frustration, et parfois leur colère, devant le déca
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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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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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Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), vi, 189 pp.
"In times of increasing mediatization and digitalization media play an important role in political and societal transformation processes. The authors of this volume take an actor-centered perspective to shed light on current cases in Arab and Asian countries. They inquire into the ways processes of
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Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age
New York; Qatar: Oxford University Press; Georgetown University (2018), xii, 335 pp.
"Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the MENA region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are p
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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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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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Politics and Social Media in China
"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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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
"This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and
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Behind the Screen: The Syrian Virtual Resistance
CyberOrient, volume 11, issue 2 (2017), pp. 4-34
"Six years have gone by since the political upheaval that swept through many Middle East and North African (MENA) countries begun. Syria was caught in the grip of this revolutionary moment, one that drove the country from a peaceful popular mobilisation to a deadly fratricide civil war with no appar
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Online Activism in the Middle East: Political Power and Authoritarian Governments from Egypt to Kuwait
London: Tauris (2017), xiv, 402 pp.
"This book provides empirical analysis of the day-to-day use of online platforms by activists in Egypt and Kuwait. The research evaluates the importance of online platforms for effecting change and establishes a specific framework for doing so. Egypt and Kuwait were chosen because, since the mid-200
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Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2017), 267 pp.
Can Media Interventions Reduce Gender Gaps in Political Participation After Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Liberia
Washington, DC: World Bank (2017), 16 pp.
"Five weeks prior to the 2011 general election in Liberia, women in randomly selected villages were allocated radios and organized into groups to listen regularly to radio programs on the electoral process broadcast by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). The field experiment was designed
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Media and Society in Networked China
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2017), xiii, 226 pp.
Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), xi, 194 pp.
"This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it presents a grass roots look at how new media use f
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