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Freedom on the Net 2014 - Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls (Summary)
Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. This booklet is a summary of findings for the 2014 edition of "Freedom on the Net.
Field Report: "Why Democracy?"
Evaluates the public broadcasting collaboration "Why Democracy?" and its efforts to coordinate international broadcast events and to use the digital social networking space to host discussions of public issues. Outlines challenges and lessons learned
Exploring new media technologies among young South African women
This article reflects on how the use of digitised communication and
social media among young black South African women can be situated and
assessed within the current context. The authors focus especially on nuanced
explorations of âcivic participation,â âempowermentâ and âidentity politicsâ in
acknowledging the liberatory potential of young womenâs use of information
and communication technology (ICTs) and seeking to assess its effects in
realistic ways. We therefore speculate about how the uses of ICTs can both
open up new possibilities for activism and agency and reveal the difficult
formation of what Nancy Fraser has called âsubaltern counterpublicsâ (1992:
109â142) among socially marginalised young women.Department of HE and Training approved lis
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Generationing development: a commentary
The articles in this special issue present a persuasive case for accounts of development to recognise the integral and fundamental roles played by age and generation. While the past two decades have witnessed a burgeoning of literature demonstrating that children and youth are impacted by development, and that they can and do participate in development, the literature has tended to portray young people as a special group whose perspectives should not be forgotten. By contrast, the articles collected here make the case that age and generation, as relational constructs, cannot be ignored. Appropriating the term âgenerationingâ, the editors argue that a variety of types of age relations profoundly structure the ways in which societies are transformed through development â both immanent processes of neoliberal modernisation and the interventions of development agencies that both respond and contribute to these. Drawing on the seven empirical articles, I attempt to draw some of the ideas together into a narrative that further argues the case for âgenerationingâ but also identifies gaps, questions and implications for further research
Generationing development
The articles in this special issue present a persuasive case for accounts of development to recognise the integral and fundamental roles played by age and generation. While the past two decades have witnessed a burgeoning of literature demonstrating that children and youth are impacted by development, and that they can and do participate in development, the literature has tended to portray young people as a special group whose perspectives should not be forgotten. By contrast, the articles collected here make the case that age and generation, as relational constructs, cannot be ignored. Appropriating the term âgenerationingâ, the editors argue that a variety of types of age relations profoundly structure the ways in which societies are transformed through development â both immanent processes of neoliberal modernisation and the interventions of development agencies that both respond and contribute to these. Drawing on the seven empirical articles, I attempt to draw some of the ideas together into a narrative that further argues the case for âgenerationingâ but also identifies gaps, questions and implications for further research
The Implications of Viral Media & Advocacy: Kony 2012
This research paper analyzes the video âKony 2012â as an example of advocacy film making and viral media. By analyzing critical sources, I draw conclusions as to why this video became the most viral video of all time and how other advocacy groups can use this phenomenon to learn about viral advocacy media. Using data from LexisNexis Academic, I track the popularity of âKony 2012â via different forms of media (blogs, news articles, etc.) and compare my data to prior research conducted on social media sites. Ultimately, I will find that several key characteristics can be pinpointed as the primary cause for the filmâs viral ability; including a pre-existing network of followers and the filmâs ability to spread through social and traditional media. Additionally, I will conclude that the filmâs inconsistent facts and the organizations behaviors played a role in the filmâs demise
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A Crisis in Political Communications? Reflections of a Critical Practitioner
Representation of Africa online: sourcing practice and frames of reference
The dominant perspective on the representation of Africa in the western media claims that western media coverage is bias and crisis orientated and the liberal perspective claims that the coverage of Africa is not as negative as is often assumed. However, there is a paucity of literature on the representation of Africa online. This research enquiry is relevant because literature claims that the Internet has the potential to resolve the journalistic predicament of representing other culture through political participation and deliberation. But this requires a re-orientation of the sourcing practice of news organization to embrace sensitivity to and knowledge of African cultures. Moreover, the journalistic predicament can be resolved or not depending on the news gathering approach adopted by the news organization. Literature has identified two approaches, that is, âgatekeepingâ used mainly by dominant traditional media and âgatewatchingâ used by alternative media in their quest to counter mainstream ideology.
This study examines the impacts of the âgatewatchingâ approach adopted by Africa Have Your Say (AHYS) website on its representation and frames of reference of Africa. It uses on-site observation, in-depth interviews and textual analysis to gather data. The study found that although the sourcing practice at the AHYS is elaborate and complex, the âgatewatchingâ approach makes its susceptible to second level agenda setting. Hence, its frame repeats the attributes and tone used by the mainstream traditional media. However, a minority of users did not use repeat this frame in their comments
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