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Stopping Hate: How to Counter Hate Speech on Twitter?
Media Diversity Institute (2016), 6 pp.
"Counter speech is a way of responding to hateful messages. If left unchallenged, the peddling of myths, lies, and the use of hateful rhetoric and abuse can lead to more harm being done - especially when individuals are targeted without knowing there is support out there and ‘haters’ gain more c
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Mecodify Tool for Twitter Data Analysis and Visualisation
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016)
"Mecodify is an open-source tool created as part of the Media Conflict and Democratization Project (http://mecodem.eu) to help gather, analyse and visualise Twitter data for use by social science scholars. The name describes what it does, i.e., Message Codification by converting messages to systemat
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Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 242 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of soc
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... und Gott chillte: Die Bibel in Kurznachrichten
Leipzig: edition chrismon, 3d. ed. (2015), 332 pp.
"Am siebten Tag war Gott fertig mit seinem Kreativ-Projekt, fand das Ergebnis genial und beschloss ab jetzt zu chillen. 1. Mose 2, 1–3 (louloujane). Gott ist der Oberchecker! Er ist voll korrekt, was er sagt, ist Ansage und er bleibt unser Big Daddy forever!!! Psalm 117, 1–2 (jess louise). Hätt
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La participación de la audiencia en la televisión: De la audiencia activa a la social
Madrid: Asociación para la Investigación de Medios de Comunicación (AIMC) (2015), 166 pp.
Social media as a heteroglossic discursive space and Kenya's emergent alternative/citizen experiment
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 66-81
"This article critically reflects on how social media platforms such as Twitter (read here as a heteroglossic text and space) enable and encourage public participation in wider national conversations. The article explores this through the work of key bloggers/activists and citizen journalists, refle
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The ISIS Twitter Census: Defining and Describing the Population of ISIS Supporters on Twitter
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2015), 65 pp.
"From September through December 2014, we estimate that at least 46,000 Twitter accounts were used by ISIS supporters, although not all of them were active at the same time [...] Typical ISIS supporters were located within the organization’s territories in Syria and Iraq, as well as in regions con
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Why Does the Archbishop Not Tweet? How Social Media Challenge Church Authorities
Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 109-123
"In summer 2012, the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden appeared on Twitter. There was only one problem – it was not the Archbishop himself who was tweeting, but an anonymous person. A discussion then ensued on Twitter and in the blogosphere between those in favor of the Archbishop and his departm
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India's Gender Digital Divide: Women and Politics on Twitter
New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation (ORF) (2015), 8 pp.
"This study explores the spatial politics of Othering and whether women are marginalized in political conversations online in India. It's methodology consists of an analysis of 23,350 tweets over an eight-day period. It shows a significant underrepresentation of women in Twitter's political conversa
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Studying Political Microblogging: Parliamentary Candidates on Twitter During the February 2012 Election in Kuwait
International Journal of Communication, volume 9 (2015), pp. 2933-2953
"Kuwait boasts high levels of political and media freedoms compared to many countries in the Middle East, and it enjoys a vibrant social media scene. The Kuwaiti parliamentary election in February 2012 was the first election in which candidates widely utilized Twitter during their campaigns. This ar
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Mediatization of Religion: Historical and Functional Perspectives
Moscow: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism (2015), 242 pp.
Social Media in Syria's Uprising and Post-Revolution Libya: An Analysis of Activists' and Blogger's Online Engagement
Arab Media & Society, issue 19 (2014), 21 pp.
"Masudul Biswas and Carrie Sipes perform a comparative content analysis of Twitter and Facebook posts from a sample of Syrian and Libyan activist groups. By considering online content in the context of post-revolution Libya and the continuing upheaval in Syria, the authors shed new light on online a
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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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Citizen Engagement and Public Services in the Arab World: The Potential of Social Media
Arab Social Media Report
"The survey administered for this issue measures public attitudes and perceptions towards the adoption of social media by Arab governments for the purpose of public service delivery. Respondents were asked about their usage of government social media pages, their perceptions of benefits and risks in
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Hashtag Standards for Emergencies
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2014), 15 pp.
"Twitter is the primary social media platform discussed in this Think Brief. However, the use of hashtags has spread to other social media platforms, including Sina Weibo, Facebook, Google+ and Diaspora. As a result, the ideas behind hashtag standardization may have a much larger sphere of influence
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State of the Newsroom: South Africa 2014. Disruptions Accelerated
Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Journalism (2014), x, 134 pp.
Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In
Hamburg: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (2013), 26 pp.
"This paper reflects the adaptation and transformation of the Chinese party-state's government strategy in the digital era. Through a discourse analysis of the current Chinese debate on the role of microblogs in China, it argues that China's political elites have revised their social management stra
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The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.
"Internet companies have become the new gatekeepers of information–and their data-parsing algorithms the twenty-first century equivalent of the stereotypical editor with the green eyeshade who filtered the news before passing it along to readers .. As they have expanded globally, these pioneering
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Political Activism 2.0: Comparing the Role of Social Media in Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” and Iran’s “Twitter Uprising”
CyberOrient, volume 6, issue 1 (2012), pp. 8-33
"Social media, particularly blogging, Facebook and Twitter, have played a key role in instigating, accelerating and even organizing some of the uprisings and revolutions that have been taking place all over the Middle East. This role has been effective in galvanizing the youth and empowering them in
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Netzwerk-Journalismus: Zur veränderten Vermittlerrolle von Journalisten am Beispiel einer Case Study zu Twitter und den Unruhen in Iran
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 60, issue 1 (2012), pp. 102-124
"Partizipative Internettechnologien sorgen für ein verändertes Aufgabenprofil und Rollenbild von Journalisten. Besonders in Krisensituationen oder bei politischen Konflikten können Informationen, die über die sozialen Plattformen des Webs verbreitet werden, wichtige Quellen journalistischer Arbe
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