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Bloggen gegen Rassismus: Holen wir uns das Netz zurück!
Key Guidance
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2021), 203 pp.
"Fake News, Hate Speech und Rassismus im Netz: Soziale Medien bieten Menschen und Organisationen auch dafür eine Plattform. Wie kann man gegensteuern und selbst aktiv für Demokratie, Meinungsvielfalt und die Entgiftung des gesellschaftlichen Klimas eintreten? Said Rezek, Politikwissenschaftler und
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Digital Activism Engagement Ecosystem: Creating Constructive Conversations on the Benbere, Habari and Yaga Blogging Platforms
Utrecht (NL): University of Applied Sciences, Master Thesis (2019), 42 pp.
"The premise of this research is that digital activism, like many other forms of online engagement work in an ecosystem. And just like the success of a species is largely dependent on environmental factors, and its reaction to those circumstances, so does the success of a digital activist platform.
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Online Activism in Latin America
New York; London: Routledge (2019), ix, 317 pp.
African Digital Media Review (3)
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-128
The Evolution of Political Blogging in French-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2017), 8 pp.
"Political blogging in Francophone Africa is quite a recent phenomenon. Most bloggers are journalists and use their blogs to practice writing and/or report affairs they can’t cover in the mainstream media. A blog is therefore a tool for the publication of content to inform the users of development
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1000 Peitschenhiebe: Weil ich sage, was ich denke
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 61 pp.
The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries
Farnham: Ashgate (2014), xi,185 pp.
Whither Blogestan: Evaluating Shifts in Persian Cyberspace
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication’s Iran Media Program (2014), 45 pp.
"Our research confirms that the Persian blogosphere has undergone significant shifts since the late 2000s as a result of a confluence of multiple factors: state intervention, the rise of social networking sites, changes to iran’s socio-political culture, and personal/professional issues. Our study
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Blogging Politics in Cuba: The Framing of Political Discourse in the Cuban Blogosphere
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 7 (2014), pp. 998-1015
"By investigating the content of 62 blogs from four different ideological streams, this study specifically focuses on the Cuban blogosphere to address the question of how political consciousness and potential for collective action may emerge in blogging practice. Findings show that (1) critical eval
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Ägyptische Blogs und ihre Bedeutung bei der Schaffung einer Gegenöffentlichkeit im Arabischen Frühling
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2014), 129 pp.
"Das Buch konzentriert sich auf den Aspekt des möglichen Einsatzes von Blogs zur Schaffung einer Gegenöffentlichkeit. Dazu werden englischsprachige, ägyptische Blogs untersucht, die während der Revolte gegen das Mubarak-Regime erstellt wurden. Zentral ist dabei die Frage, ob und wie ägyptische
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Vietnam: Programmed Death of Freedom of Information
Reporters Without Borders (2013), 39 pp.
Wir sind die Medien: Internet und politischer Wandel in Iran
Bielefeld: transcript (2013), 350 pp.
Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), viii, 241 pp.
"This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution." (Publishe
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Profiles in Blogging: How Bloggers Around the World Practice Their Craft
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 30 pp.
"Examines the impact and reach not only of well-known bloggers such as Cuba’s Yoani Sánchez but also the independent Saudi journalist Ahmed Al Omran, who started writing the Saudi Jeans blog as a pharmacy student to improve his English skills and combat stereotypes about his country; Atiaf Alwazi
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Transformations in Egyptian Journalism
London; Oxford: Tauris;Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xviii, 109 pp.
"Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of actio
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Political Communication in the Cuban Blogosphere: A Case Study of Generation Y
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 2 (2013), pp. 153-178
"Blogs have become a communicative alternative for Cuban civil society in recent years. Cuban communities, inside and outside the island, are characterized by substantial ideological differences and economic gaps that highlight the challenges for consensus building and collective action in the count
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Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 11, issue 2 (2012), pp. 127-140
"The rapid expansion of the Internet, marked by a storm of blogs and social networking platforms, is perceived as an enabling instrument for Muslims to be engaged globally. In this regard, the blogosphere can be a vehicle for worldwide interactions and the formation of global Muslim community, the u
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Syria’s Cyber Wars
Open Society Foundation (2012), 25 pp.
"The government in Syria came to differentiate between political dissent and the civil society activism in which the new generation plays a vital role thanks to the use of social media. Unable to control the burst of online activity, Damascus was forced to focus on monitoring key dissenters and huma
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Clicks, Cabs, and Coffee Houses: Social Media and Oppositional Movements in Egypt, 2004–2011
Journal of Communication, volume 62 (2012), pp. 231-248
"To deepen our understanding of the relationship between social media and political change during the Egyptian uprising of early 2011, events in Tahrir Square must be situated in a larger context of media use and recent history of online activism. For several years, the most successful social moveme
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Blogistan: Politik und Internet im Iran
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); (2012), 285 pp.
"Die Protestwelle nach der umstrittenen Präsidentschaftswahl im Iran vom Juni 2009 lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf die lebendige Internetkultur der Islamischen Republik. Das Internet, heißt es, befördert den gesellschaftlichen Wandel in Ländern wie dem Iran, doch inwiefern
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