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Media Captured: Elites’ Cohesion and Media Networks in Costa Rica and El Salvador

Francisco Robles-Rivera

Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Doctoral Thesis (2019), vi, 186 pp.

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Dialogue Between Absentees? Liberation Radio Engages its Audiences, Namibia, 1978-1989

Robert Heinze

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2019), pp. 489-510

"Liberation radios, the propaganda stations operated by the anti-Apartheid and anticolonial movements Southern Africa, provide us with a unique lens on the relationship between broadcasters and their audiences. Most importantly, they conceptualized audiences in a specific, two-pronged way to mobiliz ... more

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Rhet Ops: Rhetoric and Information Warfare

Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson (eds.)

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2019), vii, 262 pp.

"In this edited volume, authors seek to document and analyze how state and non-state actors leverage digital rhetoric as a twenty-first-century weapon of war. Rhet Ops offer readers a chance to focus on the human dimension of rhetorical practice within mobile technologies and social networks: to ref ... more

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Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case Studies on Contested Transitions

Katrin Voltmer, Christian Christensen, Irene Neverla, Nicole Stremlau, Barbara Thomass, Nebojsa Vladisavljevic, Herman Wasserman (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xvii, 305 pp.

"This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratiz ... more

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Digital Justice Manifesto: A Call to Own Our Digital Future

Just Net Coalition (2019), 16 pp.

"Key principles: 1. Data subjects must own their data – individually and collectively. 2. Our data requires protection from abuse. 3. We need the tools to control our data. 4. Data commons need appropriate governance frameworks. 5. Data protection, sharing and use require new institutions. 6. Data ... more

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Going Deeper: Social Media Use and the Development of Democratic Attitudes in Latin America

Ryan Salzman

Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 85-101

"The deepening of democracy in developing regions requires that individuals support their political systems not only through democratic behaviours but also through the continual strengthening of democratic attitudes. Traditional news media have long held a favoured position when it comes to understa ... more

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Polarisation and the Use of Technology in Political Campaigns and Communication

Lisa Maria Neudert, Nahema Marchal

European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2019), 55 pp.

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Evaluation of ICT4Democracy in East Africa Network: Assessing its Success in Improving Citizen Participation, Realisation of Human Rights and the Level of Transparency and Accountability of Government in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

David Jodnell, Dwan Kaoukji, David Musime

DBG Consultants (2019), 53 pp.

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Authoritarianism, Digital Dissidence and Grassroots Media in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Josepha Wessels

CyberOrient, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 4-27

"As an introduction to this special issue of CyberOrient, this text provides an insight into ongoing research in studies of digital layers of revolutions, digital communication, and dissidence in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region. Providing a short overview of the latest development ... more

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Polish Media System in a Comparative Perspective: Media in Politics, Politics in Media

Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska (ed.)

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2019), 286 pp.

"The main subject of this work is the dynamically evolving Polish media system, which is under the influence of institutions and external stakeholders. Thanks to this, it is easier to understand that the "crossroads" is not only a problem of the Polish media system, but a global one. For this reason ... more

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The Online Public Sphere in the Gulf: Contestation, Creativity, and Change

Sahar Khamis

Review of Middle East Studies, volume 53, issue 2 (2019), pp. 190-199

"This introductory essay sets the stage for this special issue, which explores how online media has changed the Arabian Gulf region's politics, economies, and social norms. It provides an overview of the most important themes, arguments, and findings tackled in the four essays in this issue, as well ... more

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The staging trap: Right-wing politics as a challenge for journalism

Kai Hafez

Journalism, volume 20, issue 1 (2019), pp. 24-26

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Social Media Literacy, Ethnicity and Peacebuilding in Kenya

Fredrick Ogenga

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 14 pp.

"Kenya has experienced a cycle of political violence following a series of controversial elections that have centred on ethnic competition, leading to human rights abuses, deaths, destruction of property and a downward economic spiral. At the core of election violence, witnessed in 2007/8 and in 201 ... more

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The Use of Social Media in Colombian Democratic Spaces: A Double-Edged Sword

Diana Dajer

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 27 pp.

"The world is flooded with news of how social media is being used to influence democracy in conflict-affected areas, for better or worse. Colombia is not an exception. The era of social media brings opportunities and challenges to a broad range of stakeholders in this country, to harness the power o ... more

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PNG Citizen Perceptions of Governance and Media Engagement Report 2019

ABC International Development (2019), 53 pp.

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Hinduism and Hindu nationalism online

Juli L. Gittinger

London ; New York: Routledge (2019), viii, 181 pp.

"This study surveys a wide range of propaganda, websites and social media in which definitions of Hinduism are debated. In particular, it focuses on the role of Hindu nationalism in the presentation and management of Hinduism in the electronic public sphere. Hindu nationalist parties and individuals ... more

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The Ethics of Whistleblowing

Eric R. Boot

London; New York: Routledge (2019), 103 pp.

"Following the enormous political, legal, and media interest that has surrounded high profile cases of whistleblowing, such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, the fundamental ethical questions surrounding whistleblowing have often been obscured. In this fascinating book Eric Boot examines the et ... more

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Media corruption and issues of journalistic and institutional integrity in post-communist countries: The case of Bulgaria

Lada Trifonova Price

Communist and Post-Communist Studies, volume 52, issue 1 (2019), pp. 71-79

"From a normative standpoint the media are usually seen as one of the pillars of a national integrity system, entrusted with the tasks of exposing and preventing acts of corruption and educating the public of the harm caused by corruption. Nevertheless, corruption continues to be one of the most sig ... more

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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media

Samuel C. Woolley, Philip N. Howard (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp.

"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int ... more

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'El Comercio' y la política peruana del siglo XXI: Pugnas entre liberales y conservadores detrás de las portadas

José Alejandro Godoy Mejía

Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) (2019), 389 pp.

"En tiempos de redes sociales, los actores políticos colocan sus contenidos en Twitter y Facebook para que sean replicados por otros medios y por la población. Sin embargo, los políticos tienen a los medios de comunicación como su principal vehículo de transmisión de ideas y mensajes a los ciu ... more