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Digitale Bildkulturen
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 397 pp.
"Annekathrin Kohout und Wolfgang Ullrich versammeln Beiträge, die sich verschiedenen Aspekten der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kultur widmen: Was zeichnet die Kommunikation über Memes aus, und warum sind sie so beliebt? Wie funktionieren GIFs, und wie haben sich das Dateiformat und seine Nutzung ü
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Toolkit for Digital Content Creators in Pakistan
Digital Rights Foundation (DRF);UNESCO (2022), 36 pp.
Discursos y contenidos en el entorno digital: Análisis desde América Latina
Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2022), 247 pp.
"La aparición de las redes sociodigitales a mediados de la primera década de 2000 fue recibida con entusiasmo y recelo por diversos sectores sociales. Los ciudadanos vieron en espacios como Facebook, Twitter y, más recientemente, Instagram, una consolidación de la autocomunicación de masas plan
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Human Rights and Technological Change: Conflicts and Convergences After 1945
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2022), 392 pp.
"The volume analyses the ambivalent relationship between human rights and modern technologies since 1945. Tools of suppression or agents of emancipation? Modern technologies have become a major subject of human rights policy. Surveillance technology, the military use of drones, and the possibilities
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Feminismos, violencias y redes sociales: Prácticas y estrategias iberoamericanas contra los discursos del odio
New York: Peter Lang (2022), xii, 326 pp.
"¿Cuáles son las principales herramientas comunicativas de los movimientos feministas en Iberoamérica? ¿Qué papel juega la comunicación en la cuarta ola? ¿Cómo se articulan las contranarrativas a los discursos del odio digitales contra activistas y comunicadoras? Las investigaciones en comun
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Social Media Behavior During Uprisings: Selective Sharing and Avoidance in the China (Hong Kong), Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon Protests
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 4 (2022), pp. 723-748
"This study examines the use of social media by individuals during protests in China (Hong Kong), Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon. Method: Surveys in the four countries assess the relationship between people's attitudes toward the protests and their selection bias on social media, manifested through selecti
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Global Information Society Watch 2021-2022: Digital Futures for a Post-Pandemic World
Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2022), 268 pp.
"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco
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TikTok Intifada: Analyzing Social Media Activism Among Youth
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 287-314
"This study uses TikTok as a novel medium to extend the literature on online activism. It adds to the emergent body of knowledge about playful political participation among youth. It also explores how creative micro-videos can be a force to create momentum and shape opinions around social and politi
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New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxv, 473 pp.
"This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the reso
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Hashtags, Memes and Selfies: Can Social Media and Online Activism Shift Gender Norms?
London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI);AKIGN (2022), 75 pp.
"Beyond supporting coalition-building, campaigning and lobbying, online campaigns aim to achieve specific goals such as the implementation of gender-based violence laws (#NiUnaMenos), or the removal of taxes on menstrual supplies (#HappytoBleed). More than just ‘slacktivism’, this report traces
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Shifting Cyberfeminism and Gendered Activisms in the Gulf: A Saudi Feminist Spring?
Journal of Arabian Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-23
"This qualitative feminist study sheds light on women’s shifting identities, struggles, and resistances in the most conservative Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, unpacking the shifting socio-political and mediated environments in this country and their impact on gendered activism. Through conducting in-d
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Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse
Lanham: Lexington Books (2022), vii, 137 pp.
"Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse explores how U.S. news and social media discourse hierarchies overshadow transnational feminist politics and reinforce femonationalist narratives, thereby unpacking how protesters' voices on the ground are obscured in favor of elite sourc
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Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (2021), ix, 234 pp.
"In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have
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"The OPTIMA workflow is a compilation of new and existing resources, guides, methodologies, and more to assist individuals and activists before, during and after an Internet shutdown. The following repository is organized into four categories:
ADVOCACY RESOURCES. Designing effective advocacy campaig
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The Stepping Into Visibility Model: Reflecting on Consequences of Social Media Visibility – a Global South Perspective
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2021), pp. 405-424
"This article discusses activists’ need to reflect on how achieving social media visibility might translate into vulnerability. In order to provide activists with a tool for this reflection, the Stepping into Visibility Model has been developed and applied to two case studies: (a) an activist grou
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En vivo: De la calle a la pantalla. Medios digitales, redes sociales y protesta social
Bogotá: Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2021), 33 pp.
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 142 pp.
"Hear #metoo in India examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment feminist activism in India. Including 75 interviews with rural and subaltern feminist activists and journalists working in urban and rural regions of India, the book proposes a nuanced framework of agenda
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Women organising in fragility and conflict: Lessons from the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Nigeria
Gender & Development, volume 29, issue 2-3 (2021), pp. 313-334
"Public protests, including women-led struggles, are increasingly gaining a foothold in many parts of the world in response to multiple crises and growing exclusion, in a context of fragility. In the global South, most public protests involve temporary, informal coalitions where people come together
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From Airtable to Zoom: An A-to-Z Guide to Digital Tech and Activism 2021
Quick Overview
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2021), 18 pp.
"This policy brief maps how activists are using technology to pursue public interests in human rights, democracy and a livable environment. It begins with a look at how cell phone tech has upped the outreach and mobilising game for campaigns, dives into digital storytelling and fundraising, explores
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Digital Authoritarianism and Nonviolent Action: Challenging the Digital Counterrevolution
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2021), 23 pp.
"This report examines how use of newer and emergent technologies affects nonviolent action campaigns. It identifies two significant related challenges and presents evidence of these dynamics at work in two digital autocracies, China and Russia." (About the report)
