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Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on New Media, AI and Data Governance
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Paris: International Observatory on Information and Democracy (2025), xxxvi, 265 pp.
"This report is an invitation to grapple with the complex interplay between infrastructure, media systems, civil society, and public sector institutions. Our findings suggest that effective policy solutions must: acknowledge the historical, political, economic, and social forces that shape informati
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Künstliche Intelligenz im medialen Diskurs: Wird soziale Gerechtigkeit ausgeblendet?
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2025), 84 pp.
[.] Auf Basis von über 2.000 Artikeln aus neun reichweitenstarken Print- und Onlinemedien untersuchen die Autor*innen, welche Themen in der Berichterstattung über KI gesetzt, wie Bezüge zu Fragen sozialer Gerechtigkeit hergestellt werden, welche narrativen Muster sich zeigen und welche Akteur*inn
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Big Tech Must Go! Digital Giants are Destroying our Democracies and Economies. We will stop them
Top Insights
Frankfurt; Chicago: Campus Verlag;University of Chicago Press (2025), 285 pp.
"Digital monopolies shape ever larger parts of our lives. The platforms are increasingly controlling the public formation of political opinion and at the same time abolishing our free market economy. Digital expert Martin Andree shows in detail how far the hostile takeover of our society by the tech
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Media and Democracy in the Middle East
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 176 pp.
"Since the outburst and spread of what was known as the ‘Arab Uprisings’ in 2010, the political and media landscapes in the Middle East region have dramatically changed. The initial hope for democratic change and governance quality improvements has faded, as several regimes in the Middle East ha
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Cidadania digital e culturas do contemporâneo
Coimbra: Grácio Editor (2024), 187 pp.
WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2024), 98 pp.
Destructive polarization in digital communication contexts: A critical review and conceptual framework
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"While the digital turn in communication research offers novel opportunities to study polarization at scale, it also adds complexity to a challenging concept. Ambiguities surrounding the conceptual understanding of polarization in different fields lead to problems in advancing the research in the di
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Memes, humor, and the far right’s strategic mainstreaming
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"The far right is increasingly relying on visual and less extreme online communication, for instance by using memes, to strategically mainstream their ideology. The use of humor in particular renders their communication more relatable to a mainstream audience. However, little is known about the actu
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Künstliche Intelligenz
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 73, issue 42 (2023), 46 pp.
"Wie so häufig in der langen Geschichte des technischen Fortschritts sind auch die Entwicklungen auf dem Feld der KI von großen Hoffnungen und mindestens ebenso großen Befürchtungen begleitet. Was tatsächlich neu ist: Erstmals fragen sich auch akademisch ausgebildete „Wissensarbeiter“, ob e
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Pro-Coup Ads in the Meta Library
NetLab;UFRJ (2023), 29 pp.
Information Disorders in Africa: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Countries
Research ICT Africa (2023), 35 pp.
"This annotated bibliography compiles relevant literature on information disorders in Africa published in peer-reviewed academic journals in English. It is organised into several thematic sections, and has a particular focus on Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. While one must not lose sight of the d
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Making sense of the Digital Services Act: How to define platforms' systemic risks to democracy
Berlin: Algorithm Watch (2023), 21 pp.
Big Tech muss weg! Die Digitalkonzerne zerstören Demokratie und Wirtschaft. Wir werden sie stoppen
Frankfurt; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 287 pp.
"Digitale Monopole bringen immer größere Teile unserer Lebenswelt unter ihre Kontrolle. Die Plattformen dominieren zunehmend die politische Meinungsbildung und schaffen zugleich unsere freie Marktwirtschaft ab. Man fragt sich: Ist das überhaupt noch legal? Warum sollten wir uns das noch länger g
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Digitale Gesellschaft
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 72, issue 10-11 (2022), 56 pp.
"Die Coronapandemie hat schonungslos die Schwachstellen der digitalen Gesellschaft aufgedeckt: die Digitalisierungsdefizite der öffentlichen Verwaltung, die schlechte digitale Ausstattung der Schulen und Universitäten, die Monopolstellung internationaler Digitalkonzerne, die Polarisierung in den s
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Digitalisierung zukunftsfähig und nachhaltig gestalten: Politische Forderungen der Bits & Bäume 2022
Bits & Bäume (2022), 13 pp.
"Im Jahr 2022 richten 13 Organisationen aus Umweltschutz, Digitalpolitik, Entwicklungspolitik und Wissenschaft gemeinsam mit einer engagierten Community die zweite Konferenz für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit »Bits & Bäume« aus. Denn wir sind überzeugt: Es braucht politische Veränderungen,
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A Democracia aceita os termos e condições? Eleições 2022 e a política com os algoritmos
Rio de Janeiro: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2022), 99 pp.
Demokratie im digitalen Kapitalismus: Wie Bürger*innen durch Algorithmen ersetzt werden
Bielefeld: transcript;Bielefeld University Press (2021), 189 pp.
"Seitdem das Fernsehen Politik macht, werden Einwände und Kritik gegen Regierende über den Bildschirm kommuniziert – die Bürger*innen sind in passives Zuschauen gedrängt. Der Aufstieg der sozialen Medien dagegen verspricht neue Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe. Doch wird der öffentliche Raum immer
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The Digital-Democracy-Development Nexus: How to Effectively Advance the EU’s Digital Policy Abroad
Brussels: European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) (2021), 29 pp.
"The paper looks at 6 areas where the EU can tackle digitalisation while strengthening development and democracy at the same time. These are: automated decision-making in public administration; data protection; internet access; accountability and control of tech; a free information environment, and;
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Die Demokratisierung des Digitalen: Retten demokratische Algorithmen die Meinungsvielfalt?
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 13 pp.
Civil Resistance in the Digital Age: The Rise of Civic Tech in Belarus
[no publisher] (2021), 9 pp.
"Civil society technology, or civic tech, is one of the novel notions introduced by the digital age – a new form of social interaction and implementation of fundamental human rights. The dominating discourse that civic tech is about optimising and digitising public services is challenged by the ex
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