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Social Media Activism in Underrepresented Communities: A Case Study of Indigenous Narratives
Preprints.org (2024), 13 pp.
"This research explored the role of social media in empowering Indigenous narratives, focusing on how digital platforms enabled Indigenous communities to challenge colonial histories, promote cultural sovereignty, and advocate for social justice. Using a mixed-methods approach that included case stu
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Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 356 pp.
"Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuo
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Mapping the discursive landscape of data activism: Articulations and actors in an emerging movement
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Growing awareness of the societal consequences of datafication in recent years has given rise to a new form of civil society engagement called data activism. This article examines the discourse surrounding data activism on the social media platform Twitter. Through a mixed-methods approach combinin
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#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar: The Evolution of the Digital Fight Against Authoritarian State Repression
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2224-2244
"This study examines #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar and attempts to understand the practice of hashtags in the struggle against digital repression. By using descriptive analysis methods and qualitative content analysis, this study argues that #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar is categorized into 4 distinct narrati
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Image-Text Congruency in Legacy Press Coverage of Iran's 2019 Bloody November: A Shift Away From the Protest Paradigm?
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5269-5295
"This article reports on one salient case where the departure from the protest paradigm was partially met, resulting in incongruent multimodal news content. The case involves the nationwide anti-government protests across Iran in November 2019 because of the drastic hike in petroleum prices. This st
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Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media
New York; London: Routledge (2024), xxv, 321 pp.
"This book explores visual political engagement online – how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in image-based social media posts, independent of collective actions. Looking beyond large digital soc
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How to enhance constructive public dialogue on social media in Uganda: Recommendations from a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop, in Kampala, Uganda, in November 2023
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2024), 16 pp.
"In November 2023, DW Akademie brought together journalists, civil society organizations, digital rights experts, and media influencers for a consultation workshop in Kampala, Uganda. In the two-day event, hosted by Media Challenge Initiative (MCI), the diverse group collaboratively developed recomm
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Memes, humor, and the far right’s strategic mainstreaming
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"The far right is increasingly relying on visual and less extreme online communication, for instance by using memes, to strategically mainstream their ideology. The use of humor in particular renders their communication more relatable to a mainstream audience. However, little is known about the actu
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Archiving Activism in the Digital Age
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 153 pp.
"The archiving of social movements has long contributed to their cultural impact. Given the wide availability of digital tools for the making and storing of records, ‘autonomous’ archiving is today becoming a significant part of the activist toolkit itself. In parallel, professional archiving ha
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"El conjunto de textos reunidos en este libro demuestra la vigencia histórica y actual de la comunicación popular en Nuestramérica - y más allá. De las iniciativas barriales a las construcciones algorítmicas, pasando por miradas ancestrales y decoloniales, la reflexión y practica de esta comu
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Mobilization for Protecting the Public Interest in the Media: Mapping Good Practices of Media Activism
Sarajevo; Ljubljana: Mediacentar; Peace Institute (2024), 51 pp.
Online political participation: The evolution of a concept
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 8 (2023), pp. 1495-1512
"The advent of online technologies has been triggering a wave of empirical examinations of online political participation (OPP) over the past twenty years. It also stimulated scholarly debate on how to conceptualize political participation in a digital age. Scholars differ on whether to consider pas
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Impacts of Social Media on Public Policy Development in pre-Taliban Afghanistan
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 13, issue 2 (2023), 19 pp.
"The impacts of media, mainly social media, have attracted greater scholarly attention. However, their effects on public policy development and the decision-making procedure of a government have not been examined so far. Thus, this study examines such effects in pre-Taliban Afghanistan before August
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Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse: An International Dialogue
New York: Routledge (2023), xxiv, 176 pp.
"The book identifies and explains the unequal power relations in place that limit the possibilities of communication justice, the challenges and difficulties faced by activists and communities, the ways in which communities and movements have confronted power structures through discourse and materia
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Slideshow activism on Instagram: Constructing the political activist subject
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2023), pp. 3318-3336
"An emerging activist tactic on visual-based social media such as Instagram, slideshow activism adapts the production and consumption of political information to the logic of the platform. In so doing, slideshow activism provides followers with an ideal subject position for civic engagement. By exam
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Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression
London et al.: Zed Books (2023), xxi, 234 pp.
"With contributions from scholars across the continent, Digital Citizenship in Africa illustrates how citizens have been using VPNs, encryption, and privacy-protecting browsers to resist limits on their rights to privacy and political speech. This book dramatically expands our understanding of the v
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Hashtag activism: An alternative pathway for the transnationalization of protests a case study of #SaveSheikhJarrah
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2023), pp. 157-177
"Digital media have provided activists with communication and organizational tools that have revolutionized the work of social movements. This article contributes to the literature on the role of digital media in the transnationalization of protests by examining a case study of a digital advocacy ca
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Prácticas de comunicación política del movimiento campesino en Colombia
Forum: Revista Departamento de Cienca Política, issue 24 (2023), pp. 173-196
"En este artículo se abordó la comunicación política del movimiento campesino en Colombia y la disputa por los sentidos de sus luchas a través del uso de las redes sociales de internet. Para ello se analizaron algunos de los momentos más signifi cativos de las protestas de campesinos y campesi
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