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Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
Top Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 308 pp.
"This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of t
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The Importance of Participation in Development Through Community Radio: A Case Study of Nkhotakota Community Radio Station in Malawi
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (2016), pp. 45-61
"This article examines the role of participation in development through community radio. Ordinary people participate in community radio through programme production, financing, management and the daily operations of the station. This enables them to define the development problems faced by their com
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#HashtagSolidarities: Twitter Debates and Networks in the MENA Region
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2016), 62 pp.
"This study identified three local or subregional incidents that led to heated debates on Twitter: a video shared on Twitter of the sexual assault of a woman on Cairo’s Tahrir Square in June 2014, anti-fracking protests in southern Algeria in early 2015, and Saudi Arabia’s military intervention
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Suenan Ondas de Paz! Ondas ciudadanas que transforman
Bogotá: Cantoyaco Red de Emisoras Comunitarias del Putumayo;Grupo Comunicarte (2016), 56 pp.
Speaking Up for the Suffering (br)other: Weibo Activism, Discursive Struggles, and Minimal Politics in China
Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 4 (2015), pp. 513-529
"In order to offer a more nuanced account of the relationship between online media and politics, this article proposes a theoretical framework that pays attention to discursive struggles, identifies strategies to contest hegemonic discourses, and employs a broadened notion of politics, referred to a
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Media, Margins and Civic Agency
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiii, 219 pp.
"This collection brings together new research on contemporary media, politics and power. It explores ways and means through which media can and do empower or dis-empower citizens at the margins that is, how they act as vehicles of, or obstacles to, civic agency and social change." (Publisher descrip
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Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement
New York: Routledge (2015), xix, 236 pp.
Global Media Forum Conference Documentation 2014: From Information to Participation - Challenges for the Media
Bonn: Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (2015), 172 pp.
Internet e mobilizações sociais: Transformações do espaço público e da sociedade civil
São Paulo: Plataforma Democrática;Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2015), 146 pp.
Die Entfaltung der E-Demokratie
In: Länderbericht Korea
Eun-Jeung Lee (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), pp. 145-158
"Die Entfaltung der E-Demokratie legt die Probleme der demokratischen Praxis in Südkorea offen: da sich die Bürger durch die politischen Institutionen nicht repräsentiert fühlen, suchen sie neue Wege, ihre Meinung zu äußern. Dabei sind die Netizens den politischen Akteuren und staatlichen Stel
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Final Evaluation: Democracy and Development in Action Through Media and Empowerment (DAME), 2012-2014
Search for Common Ground (2015), vii, 57 pp.
"1. The DAME project has contributed to its overall objective of ‘strengthening the democratization process in Timor-Leste’ and to its specific objective of ‘enhanced engagement between NSAs, State authorities and their constituencies’ in the development process. 2. Most effective were the a
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Russia
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 12 pp.
Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.
"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi
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Mechachal: A Preliminary Assessment of Online Debates in Ethiopia. Report One
University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) (2015), 35 pp.
"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness
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Social media as a heteroglossic discursive space and Kenya's emergent alternative/citizen experiment
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 66-81
"This article critically reflects on how social media platforms such as Twitter (read here as a heteroglossic text and space) enable and encourage public participation in wider national conversations. The article explores this through the work of key bloggers/activists and citizen journalists, refle
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Radio Listening Clubs in Malawi as Alternative Public Spheres
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 13, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 105-120
"Many people in rural areas in Malawi lack access to information due to illiteracy and the unavailability of reliable sources of information. There is also an absence of a proper forum where rural ordinary people can express their views and have their voices heard. However, in communities where ther
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Patronage, Politics and Performance: Radio Call-In Programmes and the Myth of Accountability
Third World Quarterly, volume 36, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1510-1526
"Assumptions about the role of call-in programmes as open spaces for pubic engagement and accountability often fail to account for the influence of existing power structures and multiple publics engaging in these programmes for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, the history of call-in programmes rev
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 16 pp.
"Egypt’s plummeting press freedom is in part a result of the many ways in which the state can put pressure on independent media under Egyptian law. While the January 2014 constitution contains clear protections for the media (including, under Article 71, bans on censorship and surveillance), many
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Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism
Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2015), xiii, 366 pp.
"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West
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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.
"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co
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