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Digital Activism Survey on Palestinian Civil Society Organizations: A Questionnaire on Performance, Challenges and Needs
Haifa: 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement (2018), 67 pp.
"The results of the questionnaire showed that most Palestinian organizations do think about and deal with media work in general. Since ninety-three percent of the organizations surveyed were already dealing with media, while 58% employed at least one person in a specialist position. Only 32% had a s
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Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), vi, 189 pp.
"In times of increasing mediatization and digitalization media play an important role in political and societal transformation processes. The authors of this volume take an actor-centered perspective to shed light on current cases in Arab and Asian countries. They inquire into the ways processes of
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A Cyberconflict Analysis of Chinese Dissidents Focusing on Civil Society, Mass Incidents and Labour Resistance
"This chapter employs the cyberconflict perspective (Karatzogianni 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012a: 52-73, 2012b: 221-46; Karatzogianni and Robinson 2010) to offer an in-depth analysis of Chinese dissidents in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focusing particularly on the 2000s. A distinction is drawn
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Visual Security Studies: Sights and Spectacles of Insecurity and War
Abingdon; New York, NY: Routledge (2018), xii, 207 pp.
Seeing history: The augmented archive
Weimar: Bauhaus Universität, Doctoral Thesis (2018), 190 pp.
"Ereignisse wie die ägyptische Revolution von/seit 2011 lassen sich als komplexe Medienereignisse beschreiben, in denen Medien weniger eine Dokumentationsfunktion übernehmen, sondern das Ereignis selbst zu einem wesentlichen Teil konstituieren und seinen Verlauf prägen, und die sich damit sowohl
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Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity: Transdisciplinary Approaches
New York; London: Routledge (2018), vi, 220 pp.
"As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals’ engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world
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Social Media in Turkey as a Space for Political Battles: AKTrolls and other Politically Motivated Trolling
Middle East Critique, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 161-177
"This article focuses on AKTrolls, defined as pro-government political trolls in Turkey, while attempting to draw implications about political trolling in the country in general. It examines their methods and effects, and it interrogates whether (and how) Turkish authorities have attempted to shape
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Social Media in Turkey as a Space for Political Battles: AK Trolls and Other Politically Motivated Trolling
Middle East Critique, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 161-177
"This article focuses on AKTrolls, defined as pro-government political trolls in Turkey, while attempting to draw implications about political trolling in the country in general. It examines their methods and effects, and it interrogates whether (and how) Turkish authorities have attempted to shape
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Journalistic Narratives and Media Activisim: Inside the News
C&S, volume 40, issue 1 (2018), pp. 335-364
"This is an empirical study which analyzes the Mídia Ninja group’s coverage of the Occupation Movement involving more than one thousand educational institutes across Brazil in 2016. This movement was in protest against Bill 241/55, proposed by the Temer government, which puts a cap on the spendin
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Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiii, 232 pp.
"This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy student from New Delhi was raped by six men in a
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Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria
London: Pluto Press (2018), xiv, 251 pp.
"This ethnography uses the Syrian case to reflect more broadly on how the networked age reshapes contemporary warfare and impacts on the enactment of violence through images and on images. In stark contrast to the techno-utopias celebrating digital democracy and participatory cultures, Donatella Del
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Engagement im digitalen Zeitalter: Trends, Chancen und Herausforderungen
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Akademie Management und Politik (2018), 34 pp.
"Was gibt es in punkto Datenschutz und Datensicherheit für Non-Profits zu beachten und wie können sie Hass, Hetze und Parolen im Netz aktiv begegnen? Wie können zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen digitale Technik für Beratungsangebote oder NPO-Kampagnen erfolgreich einsetzen und offene Daten
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Organization After Social Media
New York: Minor Compositions; Autonomedia (2018), 178 pp.
"What can replace the corporate walled gardens such as Facebook and Twitter? Our answer to this question is a firm and open one: a federation of organized networks, sustainable cells that operate as secret societies. Many have already identified social networks as a conspiratorial neoliberal inventi
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Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age
New York; Qatar: Oxford University Press; Georgetown University (2018), xii, 335 pp.
"Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the MENA region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are p
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Online Activism in Politically Restricted Central Asia: A Comparative Review of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Singapore: Springer (2018), pp. 961-976
"This comparative study examined the Internet’s role and wider social media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, three Central Asian countries in the democratization process. Specifically, this work aims to discuss how the Internet and social media are allowing Internet users wider opportuni
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Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria: Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and MEND
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiv, 256 pp.
"This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of confl
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Cyber-Spaces
"This chapter focuses on the role of Myanmar's fastest growing form of media—social media—in formulating notions of citizenship and nation amid Myanmar's transition. It begins with an overview of the history of mobile and internet access in Myanmar. The chapter explores the new social and politi
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Fakepolítica: Democracia y digitalización
Nueva Sociedad, issue 269 (2017), pp. 40-147
Activismo en red y multitudes conectadas: Comunicación y acción en la era de Internet
Barcelona; México, DF: Icaria; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco (2017), 254 pp.
"El uso lúdico y libertario de las tecnologías digitales, iniciado por los primeros programadores y hacktivistas, se ha profundizado en las últimas décadas a partir de experiencias concretas que sorprenden en su irrupción y que contrastan con el desarrollo de estrategias tecnológicas para el c
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