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Daily Greetings from the President: Argentinean President Kirchner’s Media Strategy Reaches It’s Limits on the Internet
KAS International Reports, issue 11 (2012), pp. 21-33
"According to Argentinean law, the government can transmit on television and radio broadcasters in grave, exceptional or institutionally significant circumstances. Nestor Kirchner, Mrs. Fernández de Kirchner’s predecessor and deceased husband, spoke to citizens by nationwide broadcast twice in hi
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Mapping Digital Media: Bosnia and Herzegovina
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 94 pp.
"Both media organizations and the organization of media in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been profoundly affected by ethnocentrism, political clientelism, the withdrawal of international donors, and the financial crisis. As a result, the country’s march towards digitization has been protracted and u
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Mapping Digital Media: Lebanon
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 99 pp.
"Thanks to digital media, Lebanon’s residents have access to a variety of news platforms, from 24-hour cable channels to internet sites and text message services. Despite easy access to Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, CNN, BBC, and others through subscriptions to pirated cable bundles or satellite receive
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Mapping Digital Media: Turkey
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 81 pp.
Mapping Digital Media: China
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 127 pp.
Egyptian E-Diaspora: Migrant Websites Without a Network?
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 19 pp.
"This article investigates the phenomenon of the Egyptian diaspora through an innovative approach based on the analysis of digital activity and the presence of Egyptian connected migrants. Following the methodology of the e-Diasporas project, we found a scarcely connected network of websites, with a
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Mapping Digital Media: Croatia
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 100 pp.
"Croatia is well ahead of the curve. Experimental broadcasting via digital signals began in 2002 and the last analog television signals were switched off in September 2011. The country has the highest free-to-air digital terrestrial coverage in Europe, exceeding 99 percent of national territory, and
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KONY 2012, Military Humanitarianism, and the Magic of Occult Economies
Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 2-3 (2012), pp. 127-135
"The global success of the film KONY 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., manifests far greater magical powers than those of Joseph Kony and his ruthless Lord’s Resistance Army, which it portrays. The most prominent feature of the Invisible Children lobby is the making and constant remaking of a mast
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Revolution 2.0? Die Bedeutung digitaler Medien für politische Mobilisierung und Protest
In: Globale Trends 2013: Frieden, Entwicklung, Umwelt
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (2012), pp. 157-172
Mapping Digital Media: Colombia
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 99 pp.
"In Colombia, analog free-to-air television is still by far the most influential source of news. Digitization seems to be increasing both the quantity and range of news and the total public consumption of media as many traditional outlets now have online versions, while some new online only outlets
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Mapping Digital Media: Albania
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 91 pp.
"According to the ITU, the percentage of the population with internet access rose from 0.1 in 2000 to over 43 in 2010. The number doubled between 2008 and 2010. The report calls for the Digital Strategy to be finalized without further delay, and then implemented. Broadcasting regulation should be am
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The Tunisian diaspora: Between “digital riots” and web activism
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 21 pp.
"This article deals with the increasing connections among the Tunisian diaspora and its homeland provided by a widespread use of the social Web. The main aim is to evaluate to what extent the Tunisian diaspora has contributed to a wider diffusion of cyberactivism concerning legitimate claims for dem
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Middle East Conflict 2.0: Israelis and Palestinians Between Virtual Conflict and Online Peace
KAS International Reports, issue 11 (2012), pp. 6-20
"The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is increasingly being played out in parallel on the internet. Recently, a great deal of media attention has been devoted to a series of spectacular hacker attacks that caused dozens of Israeli and Palestinian websites to crash, including thos
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Altering Courses in Unknown Waters: Interaction Between Traditional and New Media During the First Months of the Syrian Uprising
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 13 pp.
"This paper aims at investigating the relationship between traditional and social media during the first six months of the Syrian uprising. Thanks to direct testimony made available to the author by various cyber activists inside and outside Syria and through constant monitoring of the official prop
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Digitale Herausforderung: Internationale Beziehungen in Zeiten / Web 2.0
Göttingen: Steidl; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2012), 188 pp.
"Der arabische Frühling war nicht nur der Beginn eines gesellschaftlichen und politischen Umwälzungsprozesses in Nordafrika, sondern auch der Startpunkt einer neuen außenpolitischen Ära im Zeichen / Web 2.0. Auch wenn die Bedeutung der Mobiltelefone und sozialen Medien, mit der die Oppositionell
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Social Media, Social Movements and the Diffusion of Ideas in the Arab Uprisings
Journal of International Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (2012), pp. 97-111
"This article studies the 2011 Arab uprisings as social movements for political reform and regime change. Social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter, are perceived to be playing a central role in these events, which have even been described as ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter revolutions’. Using
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Mapping Digital Media: Nigeria
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 94 pp.
"Only 40 percent of Nigerians had access to a television in 2008 according to the International Telecommunication Union, and radio is still the dominant medium, reaching three-quarters of households. Both commercial and state broadcasters favor urban audiences and those in the south of the country.
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Amateur Media: Social, Culturual and Legal Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2012), xv, 238 pp.
"This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features contributions from experts in the fields
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Political Participation 2.0 in Mexico: Lessons Learned from the #YoSoy132 Movement
KAS International Reports, issue 11 (2012), pp. 34-49
"In the 2012 elections, the internet – and particularly the social networks – became more important than ever before and took up an unprecedented amount of space in the media. The role played by Web 2.0 in the 2012 elections in Mexico cannot be assessed without bringing the #YoSoy132 movement in
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