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Information Disorders in Africa: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Countries
Research ICT Africa (2023), 35 pp.
"This annotated bibliography compiles relevant literature on information disorders in Africa published in peer-reviewed academic journals in English. It is organised into several thematic sections, and has a particular focus on Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. While one must not lose sight of the d
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The Risks of Social Media Platforms for Democracy: A Call for a New Regulation
In: Law and Artificial Intelligence: Regulating AI and Applying AI in Legal Practice
Bart Custers; Eduard Fosch Villaronga (eds.)
The Hague; Berlin: Asser Press;Springer (2022), pp. 169-186
"This chapter critically discusses how the democratic arena is changing and deteriorating due to the impact of the power of social media platforms. The focus is on the consequences that personalized forms of information and digital affordances can produce, leading to online information cocoons or fi
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Digitale Gesellschaft
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 72, issue 10-11 (2022), 56 pp.
"Die Coronapandemie hat schonungslos die Schwachstellen der digitalen Gesellschaft aufgedeckt: die Digitalisierungsdefizite der öffentlichen Verwaltung, die schlechte digitale Ausstattung der Schulen und Universitäten, die Monopolstellung internationaler Digitalkonzerne, die Polarisierung in den s
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The ‘#tag Generation’: Social Media and Youth Participation in the 2019 General Election in Nigeria
Africa Development, volume 47, issue 2 (2022), pp. 107-145
"This article examines the roles of social media on youth’s political participation in the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria. It interrogates the roles played by these communication tools in the emancipation and agency of youths while revealing the double-edged implications the devices may have on
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Regulating Big Tech: Policy Responses to Digital Dominance
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New York: Oxford University Press (2022), xii, 368 pp.
"This book has compiled the tech policy debate into a toolkit for policy makers, legal experts, and academics seeking to address platform dominance and its impact on society today. It discusses the global consensus around technology regulation with recommendations of cutting-edge policy innovations
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Democracy and Fake News
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 232 pp.
"This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively
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From Grassroots Activism to Disinformation: Social Media in Southeast Asia
Singapore: ISEAS (2021), 277 pp.
"This book reflects on the role of social media in the past two decades in Southeast Asia. It traces the emergence of social media discourse in Southeast Asia, and its potential as a "liberation technology" in both democratizing and authoritarian states. It explains the growing decline in internet f
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Belarus at a Crossroads: Attitudes on Social and Political Change
Berlin: Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) (2021), 27 pp.
"Following months of mass antigovernment demonstrations in Belarus, this report widens the focus beyond the protesters and takes stock of the views and preferences of Belarusian citizens at a critical moment. A new ZOiS survey conducted in December 2020 among Belarusians aged between 16 and 64 revea
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Demokratie im digitalen Kapitalismus: Wie Bürger*innen durch Algorithmen ersetzt werden
Bielefeld: transcript;Bielefeld University Press (2021), 189 pp.
"Seitdem das Fernsehen Politik macht, werden Einwände und Kritik gegen Regierende über den Bildschirm kommuniziert – die Bürger*innen sind in passives Zuschauen gedrängt. Der Aufstieg der sozialen Medien dagegen verspricht neue Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe. Doch wird der öffentliche Raum immer
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The Digital-Democracy-Development Nexus: How to Effectively Advance the EU’s Digital Policy Abroad
Brussels: European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) (2021), 29 pp.
"The paper looks at 6 areas where the EU can tackle digitalisation while strengthening development and democracy at the same time. These are: automated decision-making in public administration; data protection; internet access; accountability and control of tech; a free information environment, and;
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Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 239 pp.
"Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, So
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Digital Democracy
International Reports
Retooling Politics: How Digital Media are Shaping Democracy
Cambridge; New York et al.: Cambridge University Press (2020), ix, 326 pp.
"Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: Digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, nongovernmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the e
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The Internet's Challenge to Democracy: Framing the Problem and Assessing Reforms
Geneva: Kofi Annan Foundation (2020), 65 pp.
"The unique dangers of the new communication revolution fall into several categories: Velocity – The lightning speed of online communication is in tension with democracy because well-timed lies immediately preceding an election can gain a national audience before they can be rebutted; Virality –
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Assessing Digital Threats to Democracy, and Workable Solutions: A Review of the Recent Literature
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 2589-2610
"Concerns surrounding the threats that digital platforms pose to the functioning of Western liberal democracies have grown since the 2016 U.S. election. Yet despite a preponderance of academic work in this area, the precise nature of these threats, empirical solutions for their redress, and their re
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Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation: Causes, Trends, and Their Influence on Democracy
Sarajevo: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2020), 38 pp.
"The aim of this paper is to investigate the phenomena of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation, as well as their impact on the political sphere. In addition, the paper attempts to explain the harmful influence of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation on public debates, dem
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Learning Democracy Digitally? The Internet and Knowledge of Democracy in Nondemocracies
Democratization, volume 27, issue 8 (2020), pp. 1413-1435
"The study of public opinion in nondemocratic states has found that people often say they support democracy, yet they show little demand for democratization or regime change. Given this paradox, recent scholarship has shown that these attitudes exist because people who live under the rule of non-dem
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Digital Inequalities in the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp.
"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits,
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Prinzip Mensch: Macht, Freiheit und Demokratie im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz
Bonn: Dietz (2020), 431 pp.
"Paul Nemitz und Matthias Pfeffer zeigen eindrücklich, wie die derzeitigen Versuche ethischer Regulierung von Künstlicher Intelligenz zu kurz greifen. Nemitz ist Mitglied der Datenethikkommission der Bundesregierung und war massgeblich verantwortlich für die Einführung der EU-Datenschutzgrundver
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Mapping Responses to Social Media Threats
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 17 pp.
"This report identifies social media threats - surveillance, addiction, disinformation, polarisation, dangerous speech - on social cohesion, human rights, violence and democracy and then identifies creative options for addressing those threats through: building a better bridge between offline dialog
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