Category Political Communication, Media & Democracy

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Reporting human rights, conflicts, and peacebuilding: critical and global perspectives

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw; Senthan Selvarajah

Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.

ISBN 978-3-030-10718-5 (hbk); 978-3-030-10719-2 (ebook)

"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro... more

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Computational propaganda: political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media

Samuel C. Woolley; Philip N. Howard (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-19-093141-4 (pbk)

"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int... more

Unbias the news: why diversity matters for journalism

Tina Lee (ed.)

Essen: Correctiv (2019), 221 pp.

ISBN 978-3-948013-03-5

"In journalism, white, male, Western voices still dominate and are often privileged over others, which means that we are not getting the whole story, or the most accurate one. At Hostwriter, we asked journalists to tell us about the barriers they face in their field and potential ways to fix them. W... more

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Digital democracy, analogue politics: how the internet era is transforming Kenya

Nanjala Nyabola

London: Zed Books (2018), xxiv, 273 pp., bibliogr. p.231-259, index

ISBN 978-1-78699-431-8

"Explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how ‘fake news’, a failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president’s recruitment of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy from ... more

Vigilante publics: orientalism, modernity and Hindutva fascism in India

Shakuntala Banaji

Javnost: the public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-350

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"This paper explores the interconnections of Hindutva fascist repertoires in India and quasi-orientalist discourses. History and common sense are re-written through audiovisual communications to appeal to one section of a dangerously split Indian public and a neoliberal-touristic sensibility elsewhe... more

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De-centring Western enlightenment: revisionist histories, contestation and communication theory

Shakuntala Banaji

Javnost: the public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440

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Cobertura del asesinato de líderes sociales en Colombia: análisis de contenido a la luz del Valor Agregado Periodístico

Emy Paloa Osorio

Cuadernos.info, volume , issue 43 (2018), pp. 221-237

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"Este artículo presenta los resultados finales de la aplicación de un análisis de contenido a un corpus noticioso sobre asesinatos de líderes sociales en Colombia para medir y analizar su calidad periodística de acuerdo a los postulados del Valor Agregado Periodístico (VAP). El estudio se cent... more

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Perspectives on political communication in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo; Beschara Karam (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxiii, 272 pp., 12 illustr., index

ISBN 978-3-319-62057-2 (ebook); 978-3-319-62056-5 (print)

"Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Moza... more

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Media reforms and democratization in emerging democracies of sub-Saharan Africa

Ufuoma Akpojivi

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), 186 pp., bibliogr. p.153-172, index

ISBN 978-3-319-75301-0 (ebook); 978-3-319-75300-3 (print)

"This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria’s emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these... more

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Control the money, control the media: how government uses funding to keep media in line

Marius Dragomir

Journalism, volume 19, issue 8 (2018), pp. 1-18

"The media industry has been ravaged by the economic crises. Some media, mainly those covering tabloid fare and digitally savvier than others or those backed by deep-pocketed investors, are surviving or even thriving. But independent journalism outfits, particularly outside the Western world, have b... more

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Mit spitzer Feder: Karikaturen zu zehn Themenfeldern

Madeleine Hankele; Siegfried Frech; Maximilian Clar (eds.)

Politik und Unterricht, volume 43, issue 45019 (2017), pp. 1-55

"Sie ist witzig, ironisch, bissig. Sie versucht, mit wenigen Strichen Dinge auf den Punkt zu bringen. Sie ist oftmals einseitig und parteiisch, in aller Regel löst sie sowohl Zustimmung als auch Widerspruch aus. Sie kann (und will) Tabus brechen, indem sie oftmals stillschweigend praktizierte gesel... more

Politicizing digital space: theory, the internet, and renewing democracy

Trevor Garrisson Smith

London: University of Westminster Press (2017), 154 pp., bibliogr. p.133-143, index

ISBN 978-1-911534-40-2 (ebook); 978-1-911534-40-2 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subje... more

Can the internet strengthen democracy?

Stephen Coleman

Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity (2017), viii, 142 pp., bibliogr. p.120-125

ISBN 978-1-5095-0837-2 (pbk)

"In this short book, internationally renowned scholar of political communication, Stephen Coleman, argues that the best way to strengthen democracy is to re-invent it for the twenty-first century. Governments and global institutions have failed to seize the opportunity to democratise their ways of o... more