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African Digital Media Review (3)
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-128
Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar
BSR (2018), 60 pp.
"Facebook commissioned BSR to undertake a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the company’s presence in Myanmar. BSR undertook this HRIA between May and September 2018, using a methodology based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This assessment identifies and
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Facebook News Feed Changes: Impact and Actions
New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 27 pp.
"An MDIF analysis of the impact of Facebook’s Q4 2017 “Explore” News Feed test showed a steep decrease in traffic for test market publishers versus traffic changes for publishers in nearby regional markets. This report will explore the impact of the Explore changes in emerging markets, discuss
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A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders
Key Guides
Amsterdam: Public Data Lab (2018), 212 pp.
"The guide explores the notion that fake news is not just another type of content that circulates online, but that it is precisely the character of this online circulation and reception that makes something into fake news. In this sense fake news may be considered not just in terms of the form or co
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Les médias en Afrique depuis les indépendances: Bilan, enjeux et perspectives
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 268 pp.
Producing Video for Social Platforms
Al Jazeera Media Institute (2018), 37 pp.
"This handbook aims to provide practical guidelines, tips and best practice for social media news video production, based on the experience the Al Jazeera Media Network has been building over the last few years. While we’ll examine what entails producing for platforms such as YouTube, more detaile
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Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 462 pp.
"Analysing millions of news stories together with Twitter and Facebook shares, broadcast television and YouTube, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the architecture of contemporary American political communications. Through data analysis and detailed qualitative case studies of coverage o
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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective
London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.
"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their
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Internet: Smarte neue Welt
welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42
"Digitale Medien verbreiten sich über die Welt: Auch in Madagaskar verwenden Kinder Handys. In Kenia nutzt die Regierungspartei in Wahlkämpfen bereits die gleichen Datenanalysen, die in den USA Donald Trump geholfen haben, Präsident zu werden. Und in der Wirtschaft bewirken Daten und Internet-Pla
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m
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"This study highlights the recent phenomenon of online social movements in Vietnam having some characteristics of the ‘horizontal networks’ and ‘mass self-communication’ conceptualised by theorist Manuel Castells. My arguments are developed on the basis of an analysis of original research in
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Les musulmans de Facebook en Côte d’Ivoire: Nouvelle voie de socialisation, de da’wa et de mobilisation communautaire
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 53-70
"Ce travail porte sur l’usage des médias numériques dans les pratiques religieuses des musulmans en Côte d’Ivoire, dans un contexte de visibilité accrue de l’islam dans l’espace public depuis l’avènement du pluralisme politique en 1990. Il étudie l’entrée des musulmans dans l’è
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Ascendant India, Digital India: How Net Neutrality Advocates Defeated Facebook’s Free Basics
Media, Culture & Society, volume 40, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-431
"This article analyzes the 2015 campaign by net neutrality advocates against Facebook’s Free Basics service in India, and argues that their victory can be best understood by analyzing their privileged place in an India that imagines itself high tech and global. The advocates, predominantly tech wo
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Transnational Religious Practices on Facebook
CyberOrient, volume 11, issue 2 (2017), pp. 6-91
"The Yezidis' re-appropriation of their religion in recent years reveals their beliefs more clearly than ever: especially through media. The community uses Facebook as a tool to show its identity in a way that was unimaginable throughout its prior history. Today, cyberspace provides them an environm
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Médias 2.0 et Églises chrétiennes au Burkina Faso: Évangélisation numérique et contrôle du message
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 71-85
"La diffusion progressive d’Internet au Burkina Faso a entraîné récemment un foisonnement de l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux, principalement Facebook, par les Églises catholique et évangéliques. Cette utilisation est toutefois fortement conditionnée par un nombre restreint de gatekeepe
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The Arab Social Media Report 2017: Social Media and the Internet of Things. Towards Data-Driven Policymaking in the Arab World
Deep Insights
Dubai: Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (2017), 85 pp.
"The report has two main parts. In the first part, we explore the questions discussed in the previous paragraphs [on the internet of things] through a regional survey spanning the 22 Arab countries. In the second part we continue the tradition set in the previous editions of the Arab Social Media Re
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Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2017), xv, 280 pp.
New Media and Chinese Society
Puchong, Selangor (SG): Springer (2017), xvii, 290 pp.
Global Activism on Facebook: A Discursive Analysis of 'Bring Back Our Girls' Campaign
"In April 2014, Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group, abducted over 200 Nigerian girls from the town of Chibok in Nigeria. The kidnapping caused global outrage and the local community responded by designing an online social media campaign they called "Bring Back Our Girls" that used Facebook and Tw
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