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Does the Watchdog Need Watching in South East Asia?
In: Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), pp. 277-288
"In the transitional states of South East Asia, an alternative media helped mobilize support for popular uprisings against authoritarian rule. In a democratizing context which promoted press freedom, joumalists emphasized their role as ‘watchdogs‘, striving to ensure that new political leaders d
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Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia
New York: Oxford University Press (2015), xv, 275 pp.
"How is the adoption of digital media in the Arab world affecting the relationship between the state and its subjects? What new forms of online engagement and strategies of resistance have emerged from the aspirations of digitally empowered citizens? This book tells the compelling story of the concu
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Doing Oral History
Key Guides
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. (2015), xvi, 347 pp.
"Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. The recent development of digital audio and video recording te
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Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project
"This chapter reviews the diffusion, uses, and impacts of the Internet worldwide and over time. The World Internet Project has been intended to become the vehicle for tracking what happens as households and nations adopt and use the Internet. The study of the connection between the Internet and soci
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The Internet and Democracy
"To conclude, it is helpful to consider the work reviewed here under the headings provided by Beetham (2002)'s definition of democracy: popular control, and political equality. With respect to popular control, it seems to be the case that the Internet facilitates a "way in" for citizens in a democra
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Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions
"it is clear that technological innovation will not necessarily enhance freedom of expression; indeed, research from across the many disciplines covered by Internet studies suggests that such fundamental freedoms will be diminished unless we pay more attention to the full array of policy 'games' tha
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Digital Inequality
"This chapter investigates the research on inequalities in society, and also considers the digital inequality beyond overly simplistic conceptions of access to technologies. Additionally, it describes how people's background characteristics relate to their web-use skills and what they do online. The
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The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication
New York: Oxford University Press (2014), vii, 229 pp.
Studies of the Internet in Learning and Education: Broadening the Disciplinary Landscape of Research
"This chapter investigates the role of the Internet in reshaping learning and education. It describes distinctions between formal education, where the Internet has made few inroads, and informal learning, where it seems to have excelled. Moreover, the chapter explores how the Internet has – via th
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The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xx, 607 pp.
"Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a resource in this area, bringing together scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studie
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A Dictionary of Journalism
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), 355 pp.
The Internet and Development: A Critical Perspective
"This chapter extends a critical perspective on the economic impact of the Internet to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development, concentrating on the effects of the Internet on the lives of some of the poorest people and most marginalized communities. The disti
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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2014), viii, 306 pp.
"Given the Internet’s potential for full-spectrum surveillance and information disruption, the marshaling of computer networks represents the next stage of cyberwar. Indeed, it is upon us already. The recent Stuxnet episode, in which Israel fed a malignant computer virus into Iran’s nuclear faci
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Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp.
"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone
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The Book: A Global History
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), xx, 748 pp.
"A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume. The 54 chapters introduce readers to the fascinating world of book history. Including 21 thematic studies on topics such
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Missionary Printing
"As Europeans began to travel to all corners of the earth beginning in the 15th century, they were determined not only to conquer new lands but also to spread their faith. From Johann Gutenberg they had learned the power of the printed word, and were determined to use this revolutionary new technolo
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The History of the Book in the Muslim World
The Sacred Book
Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2013), xiv, 145 pp.
"Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain examine the complex role of the Internet, mobile phones, and social networking applications in the Arab Spring. Examining digital media access, level of grievance, and levels of protest for popular democratization in 16 countries in the Middle East and North
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Principles of Convergent Journalism
New York: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. (2012), vii, 311 pp.
"From iPads to smart phones to laptops, journalism's days of living solely on the printed page are over. Principles of Convergent Journalism teaches emerging journalists how to move confidently across media platforms, providing an essential guide to navigating today's complex media landscape. In add
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