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Social Media Behavior During Uprisings: Selective Sharing and Avoidance in the China (Hong Kong), Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon Protests
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 4 (2022), pp. 723-748
"This study examines the use of social media by individuals during protests in China (Hong Kong), Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon. Method: Surveys in the four countries assess the relationship between people's attitudes toward the protests and their selection bias on social media, manifested through selecti
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TikTok Intifada: Analyzing Social Media Activism Among Youth
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 287-314
"This study uses TikTok as a novel medium to extend the literature on online activism. It adds to the emergent body of knowledge about playful political participation among youth. It also explores how creative micro-videos can be a force to create momentum and shape opinions around social and politi
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"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco
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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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Digitale Bildkulturen: GIFs, Memes, Modebilder, Body-Bilder und Gesichtserkennung
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 397 pp.
"Annekathrin Kohout und Wolfgang Ullrich versammeln Beiträge, die sich verschiedenen Aspekten der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kultur widmen: Was zeichnet die Kommunikation über Memes aus, und warum sind sie so beliebt? Wie funktionieren GIFs, und wie haben sich das Dateiformat und seine Nutzung ü
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Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 157 pp.
"This volume explores how, over the past decade, social media platforms have deeply penetrated the fabric of everyday life. The author considers South Africans’ use of wearable tech and use of online health and sports tracking systems via mobile phones within the broader context of the digital dat
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The Exile Effect: Venezuela’s Overseas Opposition and Social Media
Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), ii, 24 pp.
The Stepping Into Visibility Model: Reflecting on Consequences of Social Media Visibility – a Global South Perspective
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2021), pp. 405-424
"This article discusses activists’ need to reflect on how achieving social media visibility might translate into vulnerability. In order to provide activists with a tool for this reflection, the Stepping into Visibility Model has been developed and applied to two case studies: (a) an activist grou
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Tweeting Out Surveys to Pro-Ukraine Influencers: Exploring the Potential for Enlisting Support in the Information Fight Against Russia
RAND Corporation (2021), 23 pp.
"This study used Twitter advertisements to solicit survey participation from the most-influential members of pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia communities of Twitter users identified in an analysis of 25 million Russian language tweets emanating from Eastern Europe. Survey results suggest that pro-Ukraine
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Change the World Using Social Media
Lanham, Maryland et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2021), xxi, 209 pp.
"In this story-driven handbook to using social media to foster collaboration and positive change, people using social media describe how those tools work and how they have used social media to produce positive transformations within their extended communities. Starting with an overview of what socia
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Women organising in fragility and conflict: Lessons from the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Nigeria
Gender & Development, volume 29, issue 2-3 (2021), pp. 313-334
"Public protests, including women-led struggles, are increasingly gaining a foothold in many parts of the world in response to multiple crises and growing exclusion, in a context of fragility. In the global South, most public protests involve temporary, informal coalitions where people come together
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The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp.
"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in
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From Airtable to Zoom: An A-to-Z Guide to Digital Tech and Activism 2021
Deep Insights
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2021), 18 pp.
"This policy brief maps how activists are using technology to pursue public interests in human rights, democracy and a livable environment. It begins with a look at how cell phone tech has upped the outreach and mobilising game for campaigns, dives into digital storytelling and fundraising, explores
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Theorizing Social Media and Activism: Where is Community Development?
Community Development Journal, volume 56, issue 2 (2021), pp. 318-337
"There is a growing public and academic debate on the societal impacts of the internet and, in particular, social media. For its proponents, social media is a force for change, which can challenge entrenched hierarchies, redistribute power, democratize information, support mass mobilization and cont
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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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Bloggen gegen Rassismus: Holen wir uns das Netz zurück!
Key Guides
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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The Routledge Encylopedia of Citizen Media
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxviii, 611 pp.
"Citizen Media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effec
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Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse
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