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Case Study: MÃdia NINJA and the Rise of Citizen Journalism in Brazil
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 527-532
Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), viii, 327 pp.
"Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world. This volume examines this topic with interdisciplinary contributions that range across media studies, anthroplogy, religious studies, and political science and explore both new a
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The Impact of Counter-Narratives: Insights from a Year-Long Cross-Platform Pilot Study of Counter-Narrative Curation, Targeting, Evaluation and Impact
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD); Against Violent Extremism (AVE) (2016), 52 pp.
"This report presents the development, deployment, and evaluation of three counternarrative campaigns orchestrated by Against Violent Extremism (AVE) network and Jigsaw (an incubator within Alphabet that uses technology to address geopolitical issues) with additional in-kind and financial support fr
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Social Media in the Arab World: Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States
London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp.
"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp
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Democracia digital, comunicação polÃtica e redes: Teoria e prática
Rio de Janeiro: Folio Digital; Letra e Imagem (2016), 427 pp.
"O livro é uma coletânea que reúne especialistas em Democracia Digital de diversas áreas (comunicação, administração, ciência polÃtica, sociologia etc.) para discutir questões conceituais e práticas que envolvem este campo. Temas como participação polÃtica e Internet, mÃdias sociais
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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xv, 236 pp.
"This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weib
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Social Media and Social Movements: The Transformation of Communication Patterns
Lanham; Boulder: Lexington Books (2016), xix, 252 pp.
Facebook, Twitter & Co.: Die politische Rolle sozialer Netzwerkmedien
"Mit Blick auf die Rolle sozialer Netzwerkmedien in arabischen Gesellschaften lässt sich resümierend festhalten, dass durch deren vielfältige Nutzungsmöglichkeiten während Protestphasen und unter den restriktiven Bedingungen autoritärer Herrschaft übergreifende bürgerschaftliche Identitäten
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Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation
London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2015), vii, 240 pp.
Gendering the Arab Spring: Arab women journalists/activists, "cyberfeminism," and the sociopolitical revolution
New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), 372 pp.
"This book explores socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world, embedding them into current processes of mediatisation. The book is based on the assumption that social and cultural changes never originate exclusively from the media or technological innovations, but rather depend on the chang
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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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Networked Erasure: Visualizing Information Censorship in Turkey
Convergence, volume 21, issue 2 (2015), pp. 257-278
"The essay analyses two cases of digital activism in Turkey, which visualize 'networked erasure' to illustrate how censorship is a systematic process. The first case, an interactive online database called Blocked Web, launched in 2007, collects and organizes data on state-classified web site bans, a
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Redes sociodigitales en México
México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2015), 194 pp.
Videoactivismo y movimientos sociales: TeorÃa y praxis de las multitudes conectadas
Barcelona: Gedisa (2015), 382 pp.
Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything
London: Tauris (2015), 212 pp.
"Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and
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Speaking Up for the Suffering (br)other: Weibo Activism, Discursive Struggles, and Minimal Politics in China
Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 4 (2015), pp. 513-529
"In order to offer a more nuanced account of the relationship between online media and politics, this article proposes a theoretical framework that pays attention to discursive struggles, identifies strategies to contest hegemonic discourses, and employs a broadened notion of politics, referred to a
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Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society After 2009
Albany: State University of New York Press (2015), 334 pp.
Media, Revolution and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising
London: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 276 pp.
"The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country's democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president's
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