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Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa
Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2020), xi, 270 pp.
"Searching for a New Kenya analyses public discussion in urban Kenya, focusing on the gatherings of citizens, both in-person and online, where people discuss issues of common concern to shed light on the role public discussion plays in politics and how social media affects political movements. Throu
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Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights Practitioners
Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2016), 35 pp.
"This paper examines the role of open source research in human rights fact-finding and seeks to address a gap in the current literature, which lacks a human rights perspective, is dominated by journalistic approaches, or focuses on specific tools. It focuses on citizen media, the visual subset of op
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ICTS and Human Rights Practice: A Report Prepared for the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions
Cambridge: University of Cambridge; Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) (2015), 50 pp.
"This report provides a crucial and in depth look at ICT initiatives and trends across the key human rights practices of prevention, fact-finding, and advocacy, identifying both risks and opportunities. In prevention, ICTs can be harnessed to protect human rights defenders, to prevent violations in
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