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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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Documentaries and China's national image
London; New York: Routledge (2023), viii, 245 pp.
"Based on theoretical frameworks of media sociology, political economy of communication and cultural studies, the book traces the development of Chinese documentary and discusses social transformation and cultural representation embodied in documentaries related to China. It is revealed how these wo
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Media, Governance and Accountability in Nigeria
Ibadan: Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) (2023), xiii, 280 pp.
Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
New York: Berghahn (2023), vii, 245 pp.
"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on
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A Research Agenda for Public Diplomacy
Cheltenham (UK); Northampton, Mass. (US): Edward Elgar Publishing (2023), xxvii, 307 pp.
"Public diplomacy has become one of the central instruments of foreign policy and national security; this crucial Research Agenda provides a new outline for its investigation. Aiding the comprehension of the broad boundaries of the field, it proposes a clear starting point for contemporary research
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Electoral news sharing: A study of changes in news coverage and Facebook sharing behaviour during the 2018 Mexican elections
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1193-1209
"Patterns of news consumption are changing drastically. Citizens increasingly rely on social media such as Facebook to read and share political news. With the power of these platforms to expose citizens to political information, the implications for democracy are profound, making understanding what
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Information Integrity to Sustain Peace during Electoral Processes. Sustaining Peace during Electoral Processes (SELECT) Project
New York: UNDP (2023), 48 pp.
"The purpose of this report is to gain a better understanding of the pertinent dynamics and to bolster the design of programming to support the information ecosystem around elections. In aid of this, UNDP sought information through a number of channels, in a review of the relevant literature, a seri
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Political Economy of Covert Influence Operations in the 2022 Philippine Elections
Deep Insights
Internews (2023), 168 pp.
"This report investigates the political economy of covert influence in the 2022 Philippine Elections, with a focus on social media influencers involved in covert political campaigning. This interdisciplinary research (1) examines political influencers and peripheral actors in the field engaged in po
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Social Media for Civic Education: Engaging Youth for Democracy
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xiv, 161 pp.
Digital constitutionalism: The role of internet bills of rights
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 242 pp.
"Investigating the impact of digital technology on contemporary constitutionalism, this book offers an overview of the transformations that are currently occurring at constitutional level, highlighting their link with ongoing societal changes. It reconstructs the multiple ways in which constitutiona
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Media and power in modern Iran: Mass communication, ideology, and the state
London: Tauris (2023), x, 222 pp.
"Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic-skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies and rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites as foreign treachery and promoting thems
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Deepening the Response to Authoritarian Information Operations in Latin America
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2023), 29 pp.
"The essays in this report deepen our understanding of the escalating and evolving threats posed by global authoritarianism. While responses to authoritarian information manipulation have been robust in many ways across Latin America, much more can be done to counter it and enhance the quality of in
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Konnektiver Zynismus: Politik und Kultur im digitalen Zeitalter
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 128 pp.
"Der politische Diskurs verroht, in den sozialen Medien toben Trolle und grenzüberschreitende Witze haben Hochkonjunktur. Rechtspopulist*innen und fragwürdige Influencer*innen nutzen bewusst sprachliche Unschärfen und ironische Zwischentöne, um das Gesagte im Nachhinein relativieren zu können.
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Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: A deliberative systems approach
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 3 (2023), pp. 637-655
"Data and data visualisations – in the forms of graphs, charts and maps – are becoming an increasingly important feature of social, public and political life. Yet within existing scholarship, the democratic significance of data visualisations has thus far received minimal attention. This article
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