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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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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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The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia
Jounal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 41-57
"The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the voices of the poor, and facilitate development a
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‘Solidarity Across Borders’: Online gender activism and the construction of a Middle East and North African regional public space
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 547-573
"Academic discourse frequently speaks of a gender violence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), suggesting a distinctive gender violence that is tied to a geographic location. Within the framework of a digital ethnography, this research examines whether gender activists operating in digital s
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Asking for solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 523-545
"The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim
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Civil Society Chatbots: A Plurality of Conceptual Approaches
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 947-966
"This article examines chatbots that have been developed by civil society for social, political, and/or cultural purposes. I ask what conceptual approaches have influenced the design of civil society chatbots and how these frameworks are actualized in practice. To do this, I first propose the concep
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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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K-Pop Fandom and Political Activism in Thailand’s 2020 Student Uprising
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5296-5320
"Korean popular culture has taken the world by storm with the recent rise of Korean entertainment globally, such as Squid Game on Netflix and the Oscar Award-winning Parasite. Fans of Korean popular culture have formed coalitions in Asia, North and SouthAmerica, and other parts of the world. These c
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“Woman, Life, Freedom”: A Visual Rhetoric Analysis of #MahsaAmini on X
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5559-5584
"This study examines the visual rhetoric and activism themes on #MahsaAmini through a quantitative content analysis of 520 visual tweets. The findings show massive support for the women’s movement in Iran through a predominantly visual pro-movement slant, which highlights the role of emotional vis
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Ghost in Dissent: Artifacts and the Architecture of Activism in Digital China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5673-5693
"This study examines the versatile tactics of digital activism in China via two pivotal artivist interventions in 2022: the Xiaohuamei T-shirt and the global Ürümqi road sign projects. It explores how activists navigate an increasingly restrictive digital environment by hybridizing online and onsi
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Wild paroxysms of the turbulent 90s: How 'The Traitors' documentary exposed the Russian liberal milieu
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 13 pp.
"The story which The Traitors tells is pretty simple and well known to academic scholars who deal with the modern Russian state: it was corrupt from its inception and Putin’s regime is in no way an aberration, but smooth continuity of the Yeltsin system. The documentary precipitated a wave of slan
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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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Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2024), xxi, 264 pp.
"Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social cha
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The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2024), xx, 317 pp.
"The urgency and complexity of contemporary social justice issues facing the world today mean that activists, scholars, and storytellers need a readily available compendium of cutting-edge scholarship on media and social justice. This handbook represents the collective wisdom of over 40 leading voic
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Social Media for Civic Education: Engaging Youth for Democracy
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xiv, 161 pp.
Write for Rights 2022 Campaign Report
Amnesty International (2023), 62 pp.
"For the twenty-second consecutive year, Write for Rights activities took place across the world. While online actions continued to increase, we also saw a major return to offline events, as Covid 19 restrictions were lifted in most countries. From running marathons in Zimbabwe, to music concerts in
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Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 127 pp.
"This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations' datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodolo
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