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Advocacy toolkit: Influencing the post-2015 development agenda

Amy Cutter, Ian Fen, Freya Seath

Sustainable Development 2015 (SD2015) Programme;CIVICUS;UN DESA (2014), 68 pp.

Agitar la palabra: Participación social y democratización de las comunicaciones

María Soledad Segura, Emiliano Díaz Mariela Villazon et al.

San Luis: Facultad de Ciencias Humanas;Universidad Nacional de San Luis (2014), 159 pp.

Sociedade Civil, Comunicação e Advocacia em São Tomé e Príncipe

Alexandro Cardoso, Ana Filipa Oliveira, José Cardoso Eduardo Elba Edson Moniz, Liadilma Alves et al.

ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2014), 128 pp.

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Social Media in Syria's Uprising and Post-Revolution Libya: An Analysis of Activists' and Blogger's Online Engagement

Masudul Biswas, Carrie Sipes

Arab Media & Society, issue 19 (2014), 21 pp.

"Masudul Biswas and Carrie Sipes perform a comparative content analysis of Twitter and Facebook posts from a sample of Syrian and Libyan activist groups. By considering online content in the context of post-revolution Libya and the continuing upheaval in Syria, the authors shed new light on online a ... more

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Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East

Anthony Downey (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2014), 359 pp.

"Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon Grounds evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices – and social movements – in the Arab world today. Analysing alternative forms of c ... more

Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics

Joshua Lerner

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2014), viii, 267 pp.

"In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable pro ... more

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Ägyptische Blogs und ihre Bedeutung bei der Schaffung einer Gegenöffentlichkeit im Arabischen Frühling

Marco Rustemeyer

Berlin; Münster: Lit (2014), 129 pp.

"Das Buch konzentriert sich auf den Aspekt des möglichen Einsatzes von Blogs zur Schaffung einer Gegenöffentlichkeit. Dazu werden englischsprachige, ägyptische Blogs untersucht, die während der Revolte gegen das Mubarak-Regime erstellt wurden. Zentral ist dabei die Frage, ob und wie ägyptische ... more

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Comunicación educación un campo de resistencias

Aura Isabel Mora (comp.)

Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto), Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación (2014), 531 pp.

Factual Debate and Discussion Programmes and Their Influence on Political Participation, Political Knowledge and Political Efficacy

Chris Larkin, Rhian Were

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 40 pp.

"The review found that there is evidence that exposure to dialogic formats can have an impact on political participation. It is clear, however, that the relationship between exposure to programming and manifest forms of participation cannot be studied in isolation to other important outcomes such as ... more

Democratizar la palabra: Movimientos convergentes en comunicación

Osvaldo León (coord.)

Quito: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (alai) (2013), 310 pp.

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Many Clicks But Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia

Merlyna Lim

Journal of Contemporary Asia, volume 43, issue 4 (2013), pp. 636-657

"Rather than viewing social media activism as the harbinger of social change or dismissing it as mere “slacktivism,” the article provides a more nuanced argument by identifying the conditions under which participation in social media might lead to successful political activism. In social media, ... more

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Cyberactivism in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions: Potentials, Limitations, Overlaps and Divergences

Sahar Khamis, Katherine Vaughn

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 69-86

"This article discusses the role of ‘cyberactivism’ or the role played by new media in paving the way for political transformation, in both the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions of 2011. It starts with a discussion of the potentials of cyberactivism in both of these revolutions, especially how t ... more

How Do Political Debate Programmes Influence Political Participation? A Case Study from Nepal

Chris Larkin, Rhian Were

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 56 pp.

"This report focuses on the role of factual debate and discussion programming, defined for the purposes of this review as “dialogic formats”, on political participation, knowledge and efficacy [...] The review of the existing evidence base is followed by an in-depth look at the relationship betw ... more

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Social Media and Civic Participation: Literature Review and Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh and Palestinian Territories

Dina Bokai, David Fernando Forero, Pablo Garcés, Joseph Peralta, Kate Shieh

London: BBC Media Action;London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2013), 55 pp.

"Highlights the findings of the LSE students’ work undertaken between October 2012 and March 2013: a literature review and analysis of BBC Media Action data from Palestinian Territories and Bangladesh on use of social media and civic participation. Findings include: Use of social media is positive ... more

Youth, Facebook and Politics in South Africa

Tanja Bosch

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 119-130

"This article explores how Facebook is used by South African youth, with particular reference to their political participation and involvement. Research has shown the declining involvement of young people in political processes, particularly since democratic elections in 1994. This is an internation ... more

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Being a Young Citizen in Estonia: An Exploration of Young People’s Civic and Media Experiences

Anne Kaun

Tartu: University of Tartu Press (2013), 133 pp.

"The main objective of this book was to explore contemporary expressions of civic culture in Estonia by looking at civic experiences: how do young people in Estonia experience their relationship with the political, politics and fellow citizens, and how do their civic experiences intersect with media ... more

The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings: Past and Present

Maha Taki, Lorenzo Coretti (eds.)

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 9, issue 2 (2013), pp. 1-122

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Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism

Mohammed El-Nawawy, Sahar Khamis

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), viii, 241 pp.

"This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution." (Publishe ... more