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Jiangshanjiao, Do You Get Your Period? Understanding Feminist Expressions Against State Propaganda in China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3711-3729
"In February 2020, the Communist Youth League introduced two virtual idols, Jiangshanjiao and Hongqiman, on Weibo to gain political solidarity during COVID-19. However, the move sparked massive criticism for using an animated female idol while ignoring the needs of female medical workers in the pand
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Environmental Activism and Global Media: Perspective from the Past, Present and Future
Cham: Springer (2024), x, 343 pp.
"This scholarly work discusses the historical, contemporary, and prospective dimensions of environmental activism and its intersection with global media. It provides a comprehensive view of the pivotal role played by the media in shaping awareness concerning environmental challenges and catalyzing a
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Ghost in Dissent: Artifacts and the Architecture of Activism in Digital China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5673-5693
"This study examines the versatile tactics of digital activism in China via two pivotal artivist interventions in 2022: the Xiaohuamei T-shirt and the global Ürümqi road sign projects. It explores how activists navigate an increasingly restrictive digital environment by hybridizing online and onsi
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“Woman, Life, Freedom”: A Visual Rhetoric Analysis of #MahsaAmini on X
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5559-5584
"This study examines the visual rhetoric and activism themes on #MahsaAmini through a quantitative content analysis of 520 visual tweets. The findings show massive support for the women’s movement in Iran through a predominantly visual pro-movement slant, which highlights the role of emotional vis
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Communication Rights in Africa: Emerging Discourses and Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiii, 257 pp.
"Drawing on a broad range of case studies across the continent, the volume considers what constitutes communication rights in Africa, who should protect them, against whom, and how communication rights relate to broader human rights. While the case studies highlight the variation in communicative ri
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Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 356 pp.
"Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuo
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Extrema direita no Brasil: Sujeitos e coletivos pela "restauração nacional"
Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Heinrich Böll (2024), 35 pp.
"A pesquisa mapeia, ou seja, identifica perfis e modos de ação de atores coletivos e individuais de extrema direita na política partidária e em mídias sociais no Brasil. Um primeiro esforço nesta direção foi levantar as definições sobre extrema direita e direita radical, identificando as p
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Media and Democracy in the Middle East
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 176 pp.
"Since the outburst and spread of what was known as the ‘Arab Uprisings’ in 2010, the political and media landscapes in the Middle East region have dramatically changed. The initial hope for democratic change and governance quality improvements has faded, as several regimes in the Middle East ha
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#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar: The Evolution of the Digital Fight Against Authoritarian State Repression
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2224-2244
"This study examines #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar and attempts to understand the practice of hashtags in the struggle against digital repression. By using descriptive analysis methods and qualitative content analysis, this study argues that #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar is categorized into 4 distinct narrati
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Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxi, 326 pp.
"This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist
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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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Social Media Activism in Underrepresented Communities: A Case Study of Indigenous Narratives
Preprints.org (2024), 13 pp.
"This research explored the role of social media in empowering Indigenous narratives, focusing on how digital platforms enabled Indigenous communities to challenge colonial histories, promote cultural sovereignty, and advocate for social justice. Using a mixed-methods approach that included case stu
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Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2024), xiii, 241 pp.
"Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and polit
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Archiving Activism in the Digital Age
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 153 pp.
"The archiving of social movements has long contributed to their cultural impact. Given the wide availability of digital tools for the making and storing of records, ‘autonomous’ archiving is today becoming a significant part of the activist toolkit itself. In parallel, professional archiving ha
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The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell (2023), xvi, 550 pp.
"Rather than viewing the Middle East as a monolithic culture, this Handbook examines the diverse and multi-local characteristics of the region’s knowledge production, dynamic media, and rich cultures. It addresses a wide range of topics, including the evolving mainstream and alternative media, com
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Slideshow activism on Instagram: Constructing the political activist subject
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2023), pp. 3318-3336
"An emerging activist tactic on visual-based social media such as Instagram, slideshow activism adapts the production and consumption of political information to the logic of the platform. In so doing, slideshow activism provides followers with an ideal subject position for civic engagement. By exam
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Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo Era
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiv, 259 pp.
"Bringing together 14 journalism scholars from around the world, this edited collection addresses the deficit of coverage of violence against women in the Global South by examining the role of the legacy press and social media that report on and highlight ways to improve reporting. Authors investiga
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Women's Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 310 pp.
"This book showcases the online activism of women's groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women's struggles on other political and environme
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The World Congress of Families: Anti-Gender Christianity and Digital Far-Right Populism
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 2805-2822
"Anti-gender groups defend heteronormative and traditionalist views of family values and include both conservative Christian and far-right political actors. Moreover, these groups often rely on digital communication. Through a qualitative analysis of videos, tweets, and press releases produced durin
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‘Forced to report’: Affective proximity and the perils of local reporting on Syria
Journalism, volume 24, issue 2 (2023), pp. 280–294
"Based on interviews with Syrian media practitioners, this article uses the notion of affective proximity to make sense of local media practitioners’ reporting and witnessing of suffering in their country and community. I argue that the life-risking, and sometimes deadly, media practices of local
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