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Constitution-Making, Media, and the Politics of Participation in Somalia
African Affairs, volume 115, issue 459 (2016), pp. 225-245
"The United Nations-led constitution-making process, while highly controversial, has sought to create an opening to help Somalia transition to a new phase in its political development. This article considers the structural features, problems, and opportunities of the process, particularly in the con
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Communicating Citizens' Protests, Requiring Public Accountability: Case Studies from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia
Sarajevo: Mediacentar (2016), 384 pp.
"In the recent years, we have witnessed several protests, initiatives and social uprisings in the SEE region, through which the citizens demanded for government accountability, suggested better policy solutions and promoted better citizen participation. Regional research “Communicating citizens' p
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Guide to Reporting on Civic Space: Media Toolkit
CIVICUS (2016), 21 pp.
"This guide helps to define what civic space is, its threats, challenges and the pivotal work being done across the world to protect and promote civic space. It seeks to identify, refine and explain the different groups and processes involved. Most importantly, it provides story ideas, angles, and p
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Case Study: Crowdfunding Civic Action - Pimp my Carroça
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 609-612
Participatory Action Research for Civic Engagement
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 563-580
Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 539-562
Trusted Voices in Challenging Times: Civil Society and Media Leadership (CSML) Program. Final Report
"For over five and one-half years, the Civil Society and Media Leadership (CSML) Program, led by IREX in partnership with The Carter Center and Social Impact, contributed to building a more capable, collaborative, and agile civil society and media sector in Liberia. The CSML team provided intensive
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Media and Political Participation: Fostering Inclusive Governance
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 55 pp.
"Increased political participation is seen as central to building accountability between citizens and leaders. Through debate and other factual programmes BBC Media Action uses media and communication to foster participation by providing information, stimulating discussion and enabling people to int
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Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America
London: Zed Books (2016), 214 pp.
"Our interest in this book is to examine the contribution of citizens’ movements to a uniquely intense period of policy reforms in public communication in Latin America during the 2000–2015 period. We examine a range of experiences of citizen participation to reshape media systems and change med
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Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xv, 341 pp.
"This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa. In a continent booming with mobile innovation and a plethora of social networking sites, the Internet is considered a powerful platform used by pr
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Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia
New York: Oxford University Press (2015), xv, 275 pp.
"How is the adoption of digital media in the Arab world affecting the relationship between the state and its subjects? What new forms of online engagement and strategies of resistance have emerged from the aspirations of digitally empowered citizens? This book tells the compelling story of the concu
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Humanitarianism 2.0
Humanitarianism 2.0 Project (2015), 102 pp.
"The five reports that make up this collection are variously concerned with humanitarian aid, social and cultural evolution, crisis response, the mitigation of cultural divides, and political unrest. The themes that bind them are an international movement towards public safety; a trust-based relatio
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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.
"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co
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Videoactivismo y movimientos sociales: Teoría y praxis de las multitudes conectadas
Barcelona: Gedisa (2015), 382 pp.
Patronage, Politics and Performance: Radio Call-In Programmes and the Myth of Accountability
Third World Quarterly, volume 36, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1510-1526
"Assumptions about the role of call-in programmes as open spaces for pubic engagement and accountability often fail to account for the influence of existing power structures and multiple publics engaging in these programmes for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, the history of call-in programmes rev
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Effects of the Internet on Participation: Study of a Public Policy Referendum in Brazil
World Bank Group, Governance Global Practice Group (2015), 36 pp.
"Does online voting mobilize citizens who otherwise would not participate? During the annual participatory budgeting vote in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil—the world’s largest—Internet voters were asked whether they would have participated had there not been an online voting
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"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness
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"Online communication is widely used by NGOs, but the full potential of social media is not always realised. The most effective use of online communications requires an organisational culture that values social media as central to its overall strategy. However, there is frequently a lack of integrat
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Interactive Radio! Toolkit for Stations
Key Guides
"This toolkit combines the knowledge and experience of Internews with insights from research conducted by the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights and partners in the Politics and Interactive Media (PiMA) research project. Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA),
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