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Vilify, ridicule, disinform: Political communication and media trust in the age of generative AI
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation;Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2024), 23 pp.
"This report examines political communication and media trust in the age of generative artificial intelligence systems (AI). Firstly, it provides a brief explainer of generative AI tools and techniques, looking separately at systems that generate text and those that generate or manipulate images, vi
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The Nexus of Digital Authoritarianism and Religious Populism
Religions, volume 14, issue 747 (2024), 19 pp.
"This paper delves into the intricate relationship between religious populism and the legitimization of digital authoritarianism in Turkey. Specifically, it investigates how the ruling party, AKP, has strategically linked Islamist values to state policies as a means of justifying its repressive cont
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The vexed question of Ethiopian identity-driven politics and the discourse of political communication in the digital media sphere
Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 11, issue 1, 2308727 (2024), 18 pp.
"This study aims to examine the interplay between political communication and discursive practices in the emerging new media landscape after the recent political reform in Ethiopia. The study employs interpretative textual analysis in qualitative research approach to analyze political communication
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Technologies socionumériques en Côte d'Ivoire : Formes d'engagement politique et médiatique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 166 pp.
"L'irruption du numérique et de l'Internet mobile a accéléré la transformation digitale de la société ivoirienne. Et, de plus en plus, des formes d'engagement politique et médiatique s'organisent avec l'utilisation des technologies socionumériques. Face à ces changements, la Côte d'Ivoire
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The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
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London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxv, 617 pp.
"Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the companion is divided into three parts: histories; approaches; thematic considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, partic
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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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The Role of Facebook Influencers in Shaping the Narrative of the Duterte Era
Loughborough University, Doctoral Thesis (2022), 390 pp.
Zwischen Partizipationsversprechen und Algorithmenmacht: Wie soziale Medien politisches Handeln prägen
Erfurt: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen (2022), 88 pp.
"Soziale Medien wie Facebook, YouTube, Instagram oder Twitter sind wichtige Werkzeuge der politischen Kommunikation geworden. Politikerinnen und Politiker genauso wie ehrenamtlich Engagierte nutzen sie, um über ihre Ziele zu informieren und Unterstützung zu mobilisieren. Bürgerinnen und Bürger k
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Discursos y contenidos en el entorno digital: Análisis desde América Latina
Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2022), 247 pp.
"La aparición de las redes sociodigitales a mediados de la primera década de 2000 fue recibida con entusiasmo y recelo por diversos sectores sociales. Los ciudadanos vieron en espacios como Facebook, Twitter y, más recientemente, Instagram, una consolidación de la autocomunicación de masas plan
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Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (2021), ix, 234 pp.
"In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have
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Visueller Aktivismus mit Instagram: Politische Kommunikation in sozialen Medien
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2021), 28 pp.
Digital Anthropology
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2021), xii, 336 pp.
"Digital Anthropology 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the moral universal
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Comunicação política digital
Freiburg: KoBra Kooperation Brasilien (2020), 5 pp.
Les réseaux sociaux: Une arme à double tranchant pour les mouvements sociaux et leur lutte contre le "pouvoir" en Algérie
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean (2020), 34 pp.
"En Algérie, le poids des réseaux sociaux dans le renouvellement de l’engagement citoyen dans la vie politique et l’impact des mobilisations citoyennes sur le paysage politique sont étroitement liés à l’absence d’un environnement favorable à toute autre forme d’association et d’exp
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Social Media and Thailand's Struggle Over Public Space
Singapore: ISEAS (2020), 10 pp.
"Political divisions, the economic downturn after 2006, and technological disruptions have enabled Thai authorities to limit public space for political discussion and expression. People in Thailand have turned to social media instead. At present, the hashtag (#) is a growing tool for all kinds of po
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Digitalisierung als grundlegender Veränderungsprozess der politischen Kommunikation
In: Handbuch Politische Kommunikation
Isabelle Borucki; Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw; Stefan Marschall; Thomas Zerback (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), 15 pp.
"In der politischen Kommunikation zeigen sich markante Veränderungen: Sie wird digitaler, effizienter, pluraler, individueller, globaler, dynamischer und hybrider – vorangetrieben durch die Diffusion der digital basierten Medien. Diese sieben Tendenzen bündeln sich zu einem strukturellen Wandel.
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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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Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
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London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp.
"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra
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Innovative Arab Media and the New Outlines of Citizenship: A Collaborative Vision Builds Stronger Journalism Across the Region
New York: Century Foundation (2019), 15 pp.
"In this report, I have provided a glimpse of the ways in which innovative media outlets act as political agents in their current contexts, through their expressed positions, their content, and the forms in which they publish. Further work is needed to more fully describe the editorial sensibilities
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Elections and Media in Digital Times
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 67 pp.
"The central focus of this study is the dynamic and complex relationship between elections and (digital) media. This choice of focus is explained by the need to safeguard the integrity and credibility of electoral processes, as well as the role of the news media during election periods, in the face
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