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"Journalists alone cannot save journalism, and civil society activists and human rights defenders alone cannot defend civil space. This is why multi-stakeholder coalitions, as well as regional and international networks, constitute an essential pathway to identify and deliver solutions to the comple
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Citizen-Centred Accountability: How Can We Make it Last? Bringing Together Perspectives on the Sustainability of Citizen-Centred Accountability Mechanisms
Integrity Action (2020), 7 pp.
"[...] Integrity Action has been exploring this question through conversations with civil society representatives, government, researchers, and citizens. During 2020 we interviewed 25 figures from sectors including social accountability, open government, and civic tech, and combined this with feedba
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Activismo mediático híbrido: Ecologías, imaginarios, algoritmos
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2020), 245 pp.
"[Esta publicación] investiga y reflexiona sobre las complejidades, ambigüedades y vacíos del activismo digital. Partiendo de un trabajo de campo sobre movimientos sociales, colectivos y partidos políticos en España, Italia y Méijco, Emiliano Treré desentraña la naturaleza híbrida del activ
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Women, ICT and Emergency Telecommunications: Opportunities and Constraints
Geneva: ITU (2020), x, 80 pp.
"In the 1991 cyclones that hit Bangladesh, 90 per cent of the 140 000 victims were women. In the deadly heat waves that hit France in 2003, most fatalities were elderly women. During the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency in New Orleans, most of the victims were Afro-American women and their children.
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Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxiv, 266 pp.
Digital Civic Engagement by Young People
New York: UNICEF Office of Global Insight and Policy (2020), 26 pp.
Handbuch Zivilgesellschaft
Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2020), xi, 360 pp.
"In 10 Kapiteln werden traditionelle und neue Erscheinungsformen der Zivilgesellschaft einander gegenübergestellt. Als Folien dienen ein analytisches Bereichskonzept von Zivilgesellschaft, die Hirschmansche Einteilung in ‚loyal, exit, voice‘ und die im Maecenata Institut entwickelte Funktionsdi
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Civil Society in the Digital Age in Africa: Identifying Threats and Mounting Pushbacks
Pretoria; Kampala: Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; CIPESA (2020), 78 pp.
"The report documents the threats to civil society in the digital age by examining the legislative and regulatory framework in four countries in Africa: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. These countries were selected from the four main geographic regions of Africa, in order to provide a sense
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Media and the Image of the Nation During Brazil's 2013 Protests
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xv, 219 pp.
"This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest. Focusing on the June 2013 protests in Brazil, it examines how different actors -authorities, activists, the national media, foreign correspondents- disseminated compe
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Farmers' Protest: Digital Activism on Facebook
Jeevadhara: A Journal for Socio-religious Research, volume 50, issue 295 (2020), pp. 47-54
"This study analyses the content of the messages on the Facebook Page 'Support for Farmers' from the premise of Habermas's 'Public Sphere'. The results show that the discussions in support of the farmers' protest on Facebook galvanized the public interest on the problematic issues faced by farmers a
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#UnderPressure: Digital Civil Society
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 56 pp.
"The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) supports civil society actors worldwide in their advocacy for democracy and peace, encourages dialogue within civil society and contributes to the protection of minorities and persons at risk. With the fellowships of the CrossCulture Programme (CCP), ifa
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Palestinian Youth Activism in the Internet Age: Online and Offline Social Networks After the Arab Spring
London et al.: Tauris (2020), xxiii, 198 pp.
"Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Palestinian youth movements have formed unofficial and leaderless networks of political activism, using the internet to mobilise and bring together three generations of Palestinian activists. This book focuses on three key case studies that have marked a turning po
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Diálogo de saberes en colectivos de comunicación
Medellín: Sello Editorial Universidad de Medellín (2020), 262 pp.
"Esta publicación sobre diálogo de saberes en colectivos recoge el espíritu del diálogo de saberes para reflexionar sobre temas recientes en los procesos de agrupación juvenil y sus formas de apropiación de medios y territorios, pues resulta pertinente pensar la ciudad y a través de las diná
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Mediated Sociability: Audience Participation and Convened Citizen Engagement in Interactive Broadcast Shows in Africa
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 2985-3006
"This article examines what drives audience participation in interactive broadcast shows, with implications for the democratic potential of these shows as spaces of citizen engagement and public discussion. It makes three contributions, the first two to audience and media studies and the last to pol
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Kommunikation und Aktion in der Krise: Wertewandel in Brasilien
Brasilikum (KoBra), issue 258-259 (2020), pp. 19-26
"Als Tagungsreader der ersten Runder Tisch Brasilien Online Fachtagung analysiert das vorliegende Heft die Kommunikationslandschaft Brasiliens neu. Wer bestimmt gesellschaftliche Diskurse? Auf welcher Basis? In der virtuellen politischen Arena 2020 geht es längst nicht mehr allein um politische Bot
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The Augmented Archive: History in Real Time. An Archaeology of Images of the Egyptian Revolution
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 5092-5107
"This study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a media-archaeological approach in both theory and practice: The media artist Kaya
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Advocacy in restricted spaces: A toolkit for civil society organizations
Key Guides
Lifeline Fund for Embattled CSOs; Freedom House (2020), 46 pp.
"There are many valuable resources on how to conduct advocacy that provide a detailed, step-by-step approach. These approaches include best practices for identifying stakeholders, developing a message, or planning a timeline. We will not go deeply into these topics, but we do want to provide an intr
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