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Social Media in Egypt: Impacts on Civil Society, Violent Extremism & Government Control

Sabine Shyre

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 7 pp.

"Throughout this policy brief, we vet the use of social media in a major Middle Eastern country - Egypt - where the youth took to the streets to express frustrations that lasted almost a lifetime. While social media helped topple autocratic dictator, Hosni Mubarak, it played the role of Pandora’s ... more

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Engaged Journalism: Practices for Building Trust, Generating Revenue, and Fostering Civic Engagement

Lindsay Green-Barber, Eric Garcia Mc Kinley

Impact Architects (2019), 61 pp.

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Authoritarianism, Digital Dissidence and Grassroots Media in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Josepha Wessels

CyberOrient, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 4-27

"As an introduction to this special issue of CyberOrient, this text provides an insight into ongoing research in studies of digital layers of revolutions, digital communication, and dissidence in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region. Providing a short overview of the latest development ... more

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Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
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Maggie Dwyer, Thomas Molony (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp.

"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra ... more

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Listening at the Local Level: The Role of Radio in Building Community and Trust

Jocelyn Ellen Nettlefold

Media International Australia, volume 172, issue 1 (2019), pp. 74-88

"This article examines the role of local radio in the contemporary media environment, specifically as a site for community engagement. Previous research finds journalistic organisations, at the local level, are critical to the functioning of society and more needs to be understood about their contem ... more

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Innovative Arab Media and the New Outlines of Citizenship: A Collaborative Vision Builds Stronger Journalism Across the Region

Lina Attalah

New York: Century Foundation (2019), 15 pp.

"In this report, I have provided a glimpse of the ways in which innovative media outlets act as political agents in their current contexts, through their expressed positions, their content, and the forms in which they publish. Further work is needed to more fully describe the editorial sensibilities ... more

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Knowledge and Legitimacy: The Fragility of Digital Mobilisation in Sudan

Siri Lamoureaux, Timm Sureau

Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 35-53

"This paper examines digital mobilisation with respect to knowledge production, legitimacy and power in Sudan since new communication and surveillance technologies became widespread. Enthusiasm for digital opposition peaked with the Arab Spring and troughed through the repressive government apparatu ... more

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Documenting Syria: Film-Making, Video Activism and Revolution

Josepha Ivanka Wessels

London et al.: Tauris (2019), xiv, 321 pp.

"Since the 1970s, Syrian cinema masters played a defining role in avant-garde filmmaking and political dissent against authoritarianism. After the outbreak of violence in 2011, an estimated 500,000 video clips were uploaded making it one of the first YouTubed revolutions in history. This book is the ... more

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Digital Activism and Indignation Nets in Brazil: The Pressure Groups

Davi Barbosa Cavalcanti, Elder Paes Barreto Bringel, Fábio Regueira Jardelino da Costa, Tassiana Moura de Oliveira, Vinicius Rodrigues Zuccolotto

Journal of Politics in Latin America (JPLA), volume 11, issue 1 (2019), pp. 109-130

"This text, of exploratory stamp, debates the digital activism in contemporary Brazil. Methodologically, we will make a discussion on cyberactivism, digital media, and national pressure groups starting from two examples, Movimento Brasil Livre (The Free Brazil Movement) and Vem pra Rua (Come to The ... more

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Madeleine Pastinelli, Francine Saillant, Mouloud Boukala, Célia Forget

Paris: UNESCO (2019), 87 pp.

"L’étude suggère que les médias sociaux ne sont pas toujours la panacée pour l’engagement citoyen des jeunes. Internet n’est pas un monde isolé en soi dans le sens où il ne fait que prolonger les usages éprouvés dans la vie citoyenne. Son rôle dans l’essor des Révolutions arabes a ... more

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Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good

Matteo Cernison

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 241 pp.

"This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, thi ... more

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Membership in News & Beyond: What Media Can Learn from Other Member-Driven Movements

Emily Goligoski, Matt Thompson

Austin: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (2019), 45 pp.

"The traditional financial models for news are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival? We’re at a moment of profound transition and successive crisis for news. Our mission is to explore how membership models might help. A key takeaway ... more

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Digital Activism Engagement Ecosystem: Creating Constructive Conversations on the Benbere, Habari and Yaga Blogging Platforms

Yaa Jahou Nyan

Utrecht (NL): University of Applied Sciences, Master Thesis (2019), 42 pp.

"The premise of this research is that digital activism, like many other forms of online engagement work in an ecosystem. And just like the success of a species is largely dependent on environmental factors, and its reaction to those circumstances, so does the success of a digital activist platform. ... more

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Making Journalism More Memberful: Practical Tips from 19 News Sites Around the World for How to Involve Your Supporters in the Work

Katharine Quamby, Emily Goligoski, Joy Jenkins

Membership Puzzle Project (2019), 61 pp.

"Even at the most audience-informed organizations, journalists recognize the immense difficulty in making sense of what audience members and relevant experts know, particularly without presently available tools and ample staff. This work is hard, yet there is an increasing amount of interest in it. ... more

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Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa

Claudia Cecilia Flores Pérez, Alex Iván Arévalo Salinas, Alejandro Barranquero Carretero (eds.)

Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.

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The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture

René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, Imar de Vries (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 431 pp.

"From the Occupy movement to playful city-making to the gameful designs of the Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential campaigns, and the rise of citizen science and ecological games, this book shows how play is a key theoretical, methodological, and practical principle for comprehending such new for ... more

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#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

Abigail de Kosnik, Keith P. Feldman (eds.)

University of Michigan Press (2019), ix, 365 pp.

"#identity is among the first scholarly books to address the positive and negative effects of Twitter on our contemporary world. Hailing from diverse scholarly fields, all contributors are affiliated with The Color of New Media, a scholarly collective based at the University of California, Berkeley. ... more

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Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital

Pradip Thomas

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2019), viii, 216 pp.

"Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital is a critical introduction to communication for social change (CSC) theory. The book presents refreshingly new perspectives and specifically makes the case for CSC theory to factor in context, leanings from social movements ... more