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Leading Protests in the Digital Age: Youth Activism in Egypt and Syria
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiii, 244 pp.
"This book explores in detail new protest organisation and mobilisation strategies of young activists in the digital age with the aim to identify the tactics that worked well against those creating high risks in the context of digitally supported protests. Focusing on Egyptian protests as well as pe
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Fakecracia
Buenos Aires: Biblos (2020), 288 pp.
Retooling Politics: How Digital Media are Shaping Democracy
Cambridge; New York et al.: Cambridge University Press (2020), ix, 326 pp.
"Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: Digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, nongovernmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the e
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Standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse als zentrales Erhebungsverfahren für die Erforschung politischer Kommunikation
"Die standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse stellt ein für die Forschung zur politischen Kommunikation unverzichtbares methodisches Instrumentarium bereit, um die ausufernde Menge an politisch relevanten Mitteilungen im öffentlichen und halböffentlichen Diskursraum systematisch zu beschreiben. Die gegen
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Öffentlichkeitstheorien
"Aus vier Traditionen normativer Demokratietheorie (liberal, republikanisch, deliberativ und agonistisch) leiten wir vier Kerndimensionen öffentlicher Kommunikation ab, anhand derer man die demokratische Qualität politischer Öffentlichkeiten messen und bewerten kann. Sodann fassen wir den Kenntni
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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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Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa
Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2020), xi, 270 pp.
"Searching for a New Kenya analyses public discussion in urban Kenya, focusing on the gatherings of citizens, both in-person and online, where people discuss issues of common concern to shed light on the role public discussion plays in politics and how social media affects political movements. Throu
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Television and the Afghan Culture Wars
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2020), 288 pp.
"Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of Afghan media producers and people from all sectors of society. In this moving work, Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the r
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Die Kunst des Miteinander-Redens: Über den Dialog in Gesellschaft und Politik
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 222 pp.
"Entgrenzt, entfesselt, entgleist? Im digitalen Zeitalter ist Kommunikation prinzipiell schrankenlos, die Anlässe für Debatten sind unübersehbar – und die Art und Weise, wie in der (Netz)öffentlichkeit weniger mit- als vor allem übereinander gesprochen wird, oftmals weit jenseits überkommene
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Prensa y populismo: 30 de septiembre de 2010. Cuando un gobierno quiso imponer su verdad
Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional; Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador (2020), 171 pp.
"¿Hubo secuestro, intento de magnicidio y de golpe de Estado el 30 de septiembre de 2010? El gobierno de Rafael Correa dijo que sí. Y no se cansó de repetir ese discurso, recogido por los medios gubernamentales y públicos coordinados por la SECOM. Tal fue el control a esos medios que se llegó a
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Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. (2020), xxviii, 454 pp.
"Brings together diverse issues and expert perspectives of twenty-two notable and accomplished communication scholars, representing eight countries around the world. Together they discuss international communication, public relations and advertising, cultural implications of globalization, internati
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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020), 296 pp.
"Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria’s social mobilisation but as a shift from online to o
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Social Media and Elections in Africa. Vol. 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Election Campaigns
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xv, 237 pp.
"This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa. Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages with the main drives behind the variou
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Understanding Viral Communism: A Thematic Analysis of Twitter During Brazil’s 2018 Elections
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 15, issue 1 (2020), pp. 19-36
"This research performs a thematic analysis on tweets published during Brazil’s 2018 elections that mentioned communism. The idea was to identify the linkages to other underlying themes that emerged during what we saw as the Twitter ‘virality of communism’ and interpret them considering the ba
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Kaboom! Of Stereotypes and Superheroes - African Comics on Africa = Von Stereotypen und Superhelden - Afrikanische Comics und Comics zu Afrika
Deep Insights
Basel; Frankfurt am Main: Basler Afrika Bibliographien; Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library; Brandes & Apsel, 2nd. ed. (2020), 156 pp.
"Die Herausgeber des Buches stellen ein vielfältges Spektrum afrikanischer Comic-Kunst vor – von Superhelden- und Undergroundcomics bis hin zu solchen mit propagandistischem Inhalt oder Bildungsanspruch. Lehr- und Aufklärungscomics hatten in Afrika in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ihr
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So, Who is Responsible? A Framing Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Electoral Violence in Zimbabwe
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2020), pp. 61-74
"This study examines how the 2008 election violence was framed in three mainstream Zimbabwean weekly newspapers – The Sunday Mail, The Independent and The Zimbabwean. It was noted that four frames – the victim, justice and human rights, trivialization and attribution of responsibility frames dom
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"The findings show a general stagnation or deterioration of media pluralism and media freedom in the four major areas encompassed by the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM): Basic protection, Market plurality, Political independence and Social inclusiveness. The study comprises the European Union Member S
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Watchdog Role: How Malawi Media Utilise Question Time During Press Briefings
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores how Malawian media utilise question time during press briefings to fulfil its watchdog role. Using the concept of ‘journalistic interview’, which treats interviews between journalists and politicians as an encounter of two institutions, each making a claim on its legitimacy,
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Medios de comunicación: ¿al servicio de quién?
Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2020), 143 pp.
"Tenemos que afirmar que, en estos días, está en su casi totalidad, por lo menos cuando nos referimos a los medios de comunicación masivos; permeado y bajo el control de las élites económicas que, además, hay que recordarlo, son en su inmensa mayoría élites masculinas. Esta situación de dom
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Digital Democracy
International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 36, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-68
