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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Twitter & Microblogs
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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Authoritarian Regimes, Dictatorships
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Civil Wars
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Conflicts & Wars: Roles of Digital Technologies & Conflict Narratives in Social Media
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Extremist & Terrorist Digital / Social Media Presence
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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War Reporting
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Digital Media Research, Digital Communication Research
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Digital Research Methods
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Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
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Bias in News Media
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Political Transition and Media
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Public Spheres
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Al-Jazeera
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Countries / Regions
Authors & Publishers
Media focus
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Syria's Socially Mediated Civil War
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2014), 33 pp.
"Analysis of the unprecedented use of social media on Syria points to important findings on the role of new media in conflict zones. In particular, social media create a dangerous illusion of unmediated information flows. Key curation hubs within networks may now play a gatekeeping role as powerful
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New Media and Conflict After the Arab Spring
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2012), 24 pp.
"An extraordinary wave of popular protest swept the Arab world in 2011. Massive popular mobilization brought down long-ruling leaders in Tunisia and Egypt, helped spark bloody struggles in Bahrain, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, and fundamentally reshaped the nature of politics in the region. New media -
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After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State
Perspectives on Politics, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 301-310
"The uprisings which swept across the Arab world beginning in December 2010 pose a serious challenge to many of the core findings of the political science literature focused on the durability of the authoritarian Middle Eastern state. The impact of social media on contentious politics represents one
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Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 31 pp.
"The impact of new media can be better understood through a framework that considers five levels of analysis: individual transformation, intergroup relations, collective action, regime policies, and external attention. New media have the potential to change how citizens think or act, mitigate or exa
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Advancing New Media Research
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 8 pp.
"New media are powerful but have mixed effects on political organizations. To identify these consequences, we need to continue devising new frameworks of analysis. Knowing more about how new media relate to each other and to traditional media is critical. Being sensitive to the differences between,
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