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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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International Communication: Continuity and Change
London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, 3rd ed. (2019), xxii, 369 pp.
"This book maps out the expansion of media and telecommunications corporations within the macro-economic context of liberalisation, deregulation and privitisation. It then goes on to explore the impact of such growth on audiences in different cultural contexts and from regional, national and interna
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Authoritarianism, Digital Dissidence and Grassroots Media in the Middle East and North Africa Region
CyberOrient, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 4-27
"As an introduction to this special issue of CyberOrient, this text provides an insight into ongoing research in studies of digital layers of revolutions, digital communication, and dissidence in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region. Providing a short overview of the latest development
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Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression
Journal of Peace Research, volume 54, issue 2 (2017), pp. 157-174
"[...] To test the argument whether the killing of journalists is a precursor to increasing repression, we introduce a new global dataset on killings of journalists between 2002 and 2013 that uses three different sources that track such events across the world. The new data show that mostly local jo
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Beyond Islamists & Autocrats: Saudi Arabia’s Virtual Quest for Citizenship and Identity
Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2016), 9 pp.
"The state’s attempts, in the last few years in particular, to intimidate activists have largely succeeded in slowing the pace of reforms and narrowing their boundaries. However, the intensified Saudi state conflicts with regional and international allies, coupled with reduced oil revenues and inc
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Speaking Up for the Suffering (br)other: Weibo Activism, Discursive Struggles, and Minimal Politics in China
Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 4 (2015), pp. 513-529
"In order to offer a more nuanced account of the relationship between online media and politics, this article proposes a theoretical framework that pays attention to discursive struggles, identifies strategies to contest hegemonic discourses, and employs a broadened notion of politics, referred to a
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.
"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi
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Nordkorea: Innenansichten eines totalen Staates
München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (2014), 427 pp.
"Nordkorea ist das isolierteste Land der Erde. Wenige Nachrichten dringen aus dem vom Kim-Clan diktatorisch regierten Staat nach außen, und wenn, dann sind es meist Negativschlagzeilen: Nahrungsmittelknappheit, Menschenrechtsverletzungen, brutale Straflager, Atomwaffenversuche, Waffenhandel, Streit
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Authoritarianism and Media in Algeria
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2013), 20 pp.
Using Social Media to Gauge Iranian Public Opinion and Mood After the 2009 Election
Santa Monica, Calif. et al.: RAND Corporation (2012), xxi, 86 pp.
"This report presents an analysis of Iranian public opinion and mood as expressed over Twitter in the nine months following the election. The research represents an initial case study of a novel methodology developed to analyze politically oriented social media content. In addition to policy-relevan
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People's Power: The Arab World in Revolt
Perspectives
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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Von der Medienpolitik zur Media Governance?
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2007), 268 pp.
Repressive State and Resurgent Media Under Nigeria's Military Dictatorship, 1988-98
Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (2004), 136 pp.
"This study documents a crucial dimension of the resistance of Nigerian civil society to a repressive and monumentally corrupt military state in the late 1980s and 1990s in Nigeria. Employing a neo-Gramscian theoretical framework, the study relates how a section of the media defied censorship laws,
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Pfarrerblock 25487: Dachau 1941-42
Luxemburg: Éditions Saint-Paul, 4th ed. (2004), 206 pp.
"Die autobiographischen Aufzeichnungen Jean Bernards aus dem Jahre 1945 geben in klarer, eindrucksvoller Sprache, ohne Pathos und Wehleidigkeit, ein erschütterndes Zeugnis vom Leben und Sterben im Konzentrationslager Dachau. Das Original zum Film "Der Neunte Tag" von Volker Schlöndorff." (Verlagsb
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Cambodge: Une presse sous pression
Paris: Reporters Sans Frontières (1997), 101 pp.
