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Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 239 pp.
"Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, So
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Easing Cameroon’s Ethnopolitical Tensions, on and Offline
Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), iii, 40 pp.
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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Snapshot of a Shadow War: A Preliminary Analysis of Twitter Activity Linked to the Azerbaijan–Armenia Conflict
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 29 pp.
"The rapid escalation in the long-running conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia which took place in late September 2020 has been shadowed by a battle across social media for control of the international narrative about the conflict. On Twitter, large numbers of accounts supporting both sides have
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The Role of Social Media in Fomenting Violence: Myanmar
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 20 pp.
"Myanmar was originally portrayed as an internet success story. Connected in a matter of months after five decades of military dictatorship, Myanmar people were supposed to be able to communicate freely, access unimpeded information online, experience the benefits of a range of compelling and empowe
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Social Media Impacts on Conflict Dynamics: A Synthesis of Ten Case Studies & A Peacebuilding Plan for Tech
Quick Overview
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 21 pp.
"Social media’s relationship with violent conflict is complex; there is no simple cause-effect relationship. These ten case studies indicate that there are a variety of factors at play that im-pact how social media affects conflict dynamics. This report documents an array of observable patterns as
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Media and Conflict in the Social Media Era in China
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiv, 160 pp.
"This book explores the media and conflict relationship in the age of social media through the lens of China. Inspired by the concepts of medialization of conflict and actor-network theory, this book centers on four main actors in wars and conflicts: social media platform, mainstream news organizati
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The Weaponization of Social Media: How Social Media Can Spark Violence and What Can be Done About It
Mercy Corps;Do No Digital Harm;Adapt Peacebuilding (2019), 53 pp.
#defyhatenow Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation Field Guide: Notes for Facilitators
#defyhatenow (2018), 54 pp.
#defyhatenow: Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation. Field Guide
Key Guidance
Berlin: r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation (2018), 111 pp.
"The #defyhatenow Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation Field Guide offers tools and strategies to be used in grassroots communities & online campaigns for peacebuilding in South Sudan and around the world. This “Field Guide” contains an overview of relevant grassroots projects, initiatives and st
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Emerging Media and Press Freedoms as Determinants of Nonviolent and Violent Political Conflicts, 1990–2006
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 4 (2017), pp. 335-356
"Using aggregate-level data, this study compares instances of intrastate political conflict that occurred in both nonviolent and violent forms. Specifically, analyses presented in this study examine the relationships that exist between diffusion rates of emerging media and enhanced press freedoms in
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Social media and visual framing of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine
Media, War & Conflict, volume 10, issue 3 (2017), pp. 359-381
"This article investigates the use of social media for visual framing of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Using a large set of visual data from a popular social networking site, Vkontakte, the authors employ content analysis to examine how the conflict was represented and interpreted in pro-Ukrainia
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Citizen, Mainstream and Peace Journalism Relationship in Covering Syria Events: A Content Analysis of Aljazeera
Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, volume 51, issue 6 (2017), pp. 2647-2664
"With the intercession of the new media, individuals were able to write news and publish videos through their participations on Social Networking Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs. This article is centered on citizen journalism which comes from the participation of citizens in making news. T
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Information and Communication Technology and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar: Organizing for Violence or Peace?
Social Science Quarterly, volume 98, issue 3 (2017), pp. 895-913
"In a country as historically conflict ridden as Myanmar, will the reduced communication costs yielded by the recent expansion of mobile telephony create political affordances that make collective organization for peace or violence more likely to prevail? Applying a random effects model of time-seri
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Communication Technology and Reports on Political Violence: Cross-National Evidence Using African Events Data
Political Research Quarterly, volume 70, issue 1 (2017), pp. 19-31
"The spread of Internet and mobile phone access around the world has implications for both the processes of contentious politics and subsequent reporting of protest, terrorism, and war. In this paper, we explore whether political violent events that occur close to modern communication networks are s
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Communicating War in Mali, 2012: On-Offline Networked Political Agency in Times of Conflict
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 109-128
"This article tries to understand the development of political agency in relation to the unprecedented access to new ICT of the Fulani nomads and urbanites in the Mopti region (Hayre), who engage increasingly with new actors and networks present in the war zone: ‘rebels’ and jihadists; the diasp
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Syria's Socially Mediated Civil War
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2014), 33 pp.
"Analysis of the unprecedented use of social media on Syria points to important findings on the role of new media in conflict zones. In particular, social media create a dangerous illusion of unmediated information flows. Key curation hubs within networks may now play a gatekeeping role as powerful
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A Critical Analysis of Digital Communications and Conflict Dynamics in Vulnerable Societies
Internews (2014), 20 pp.
Media and Conflict: An Assessment of the Evidence
Progress in Development Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2014), pp. 181-195
"This article assesses the evidence used to in arguments for the role of the media in conflict and post-conflict situations. It focuses on two broad areas within the literature. First, it examines literature on the contribution of media in war to peace transitions, including assessment of evidence u
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Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.
