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- Al-Hammadany, F. H., et al.
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Determinants of internet use in Iraq
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 5:1, s. 1967-1989
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Internet is considered to be today’s most advanced technology and a key to progress in communications and in the exchange of information, goods, services, and technologies. Since its introduction during the late 1960s, the Internet has been instrumental in creating opportunities and conditions for progress in developed and developing nations alike. Not all nations, though, welcome this particular tool of global interconnectivity. One such nation is Iraq, which faces huge challenges in increasing Internet penetration, capacity building, and changing the traditional methods of communications. This study of Iraq’s efforts during this difficult undertaking explores the many factors that define this transition process. It concludes by explaining the determinants of Internet use in Iraq. The results of the study indicate that while Iraqis are eager to adopt this technology in order to reach out to the world, a number of factors are not allowing it to become a public domain. Factors include lack of adequate resources, insufficient incentives and encouragement from the government, and social inhibitions. ©2011 (Firas H. al-Hammadany, Almas Heshmati).
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- Andén-Papadopoulos, Kari
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Producing Image Activism After the Arab Uprisings Introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 14, s. 5010-5020
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A decade after the outbreak of the Arab revolutions, what remains of the political promise of cameras everywhere to permit activists and protesters in the region revived forms of agency, self-expression, and connectivity? This Special Section aims to provide a better understanding of what the opportunities and constraints are for practices of grassroots digital image activism within today's political struggles in the Arab world. Together, the articles track the current conditions of possibility for Arab digital image activism to actualize counterdominant practices of capturing, mobilizing, and archiving visual documentation of people's struggles for justice in the region. Where traditional media studies tend to focus on insurgent image making as content rather than as embodied and embedded practices, the contributions here feature a range of concrete, contextual, and innovative repertoires of activist video and photography practices. They specifically detail the struggle between resistance and control, between efforts to maintain the radical potential of grassroots forms and practices image- making in the region, and the renewed hegemonic threats and pressures of co-optation, commodification, and censorship.
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- Andén-Papadopoulos, Kari
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The “Image-as-Forensic-Evidence” Economy in the Post-2011 Syrian Conflict : The Power and Constraints of Contemporary Practices of Video Activism
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 14, s. 5072-5091
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- My study brings a practice perspective to the study of video activism, specifically seeking to bridge a focus on activist agency with attention to structure. Hence, it provides a critical lens on new economies of image developing in relation to the post-2011 Syrian conflict, to theorize both the agency-the practices, aspirations, and need-of local Syrian videographers and how it is challenged and restricted by structure: that is, the dynamics of ruling perpetrated both by commercial platforms (particularly YouTube), that are now stepping up censorship of video, and by the international justice movement, that is now rushing to harness the probative power of online eyewitness video for grave crimes investigations and prosecutions. Based on semi- structured interviews with four key actors in the international justice movement and 15 Syrian videographers, the study advances our conception of the potentials and challenges of digital camera-practices for civic agency and activism within a contested global media space of ever-increasing exploitation, commodification, and censorship.
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- Anden-Papadopoulos, Kari, et al.
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The Media Work of Syrian Diaspora Activists : Brokering Between the Protest and Mainstream Media
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 7, s. 2185-2206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of Syrian diaspora activists has been identified as key to both supporting and shaping the world's image of the Syrian uprising. This article examines the multifaceted media work of Syrian diaspora activists, conceptualized as cultural brokerage in a global and national setting. Based on personal interviews with activists in exile in five countries, this study identifies and analyzes three main aspects of brokerage: (a) linking the voices of protesters inside the country to the outside world, (b) managing messages to bridge the gap between social media and mainstream media, and (c) collaborating with professional journalists and translating messages to fit the contexts and understandings of foreign publics.
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- Andersen, Kim, et al.
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Media Platforms and Political Learning: The Democratic Challenge of News Consumption on Computers and Mobile Devices
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 15, s. 300-319
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last decades, an important shift in media use is that people increasingly follow the news by using digital and portable media, while news consumption via traditional, offline media is decreasing. A key question is how this change influences the extent to which people seek out and learn about politics from the news media. Using a large two- wave panel survey (N = 2,828) with detailed measures of political learning and consumption of the same news outlets on different media platforms, the study shows that while political interest has a positive impact on news consumption across all platforms, people mainly learn about current political affairs from using traditional, offline platforms. In contrast, there are no general learning effects from using news media on computers and mobile devices. The study thereby demonstrates how the increasing importance of newer, digital media platforms for news consumption challenges the ideal of a broadly informed citizenry.
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- Andersson, Jonas, 1978-
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The quiet agglomeration of data : How piracy is made mundane
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 6:1, s. 585-605
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article conceptually outlines P2P-based file-sharing as a totality, a mass utility, and a backdrop to everyday cultural life. It elaborates on a recent study of Swedish file-sharers to sketch some important constituents of what would constitute a "piracy culture." It shows that the actual file-sharer argumentation is not fully synonymous with established notions of "piracy" but rather reveals the complexity of the phenomenon and how the discourse invoking it relies on modes of justification that are not entirely commensurable. Moreover, the file-sharer rhetoric is contingent on a range of entities and infrastructures that condition actual usage. Noting the institutionalized, semi-anonymous, and depersonalized elements to file-sharing, I propose a different interpretation than regarding it as a "gift economy" like the tight-knit communities Mauss described in 1923. Instead, I propose a metaphor borrowed from Titmuss' example of blood donors that acknowledges the perceived "need" for culture and the associated "right" to access content that file-sharers are exercising.
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- Appelgren, Ester, 1977-
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[Book review:] Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Karin van Es (Eds.), The Datafied Society : Reviewed by Ester Appelgren
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 12, s. 433-435
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Will the current practice of data and digital analysis harm humanities scholarship? Or will increasing access to data and easy-to-use tools for digital analysis instead strengthen the ability to critically interpret culture and contemporary life? These two perspectives permeate The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data, edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Karin van Es.
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- Appelgren, Ester, 1977-
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The Reasons Behind Tracing Audience Behavior : A Matter of Paternalism and Transparency
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - : USC Annenberg Press. - 1932-8036. ; 11, s. 2178-2197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes privacy agreement texts and cookie consent information collected from 60 news sites in three countries (U.S., UK, and Sweden) within the context of paternalism. The goal of this study is to explore how paternalism is present in news media companies’ stated reasons for collecting behavioral data. Twenty-five categories of reasons were identified and divided into six categories: personalization and enhanced user experience, delivery and maintenance of services, internal and corporate use of data, legal reasons, communication with the user, and third-party use of data. The analysis shows that the reasons can be formulated in both paternalistic and nonpaternalistic ways, and that the market-driven logic of Web analytics seems to collide with ethics in a journalistic context.
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- Askanius, Tina, et al.
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Online Civic Cultures: Debating Climate Change Activism on YouTube
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 7, s. 1185-1204
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract in Undetermined This article explores the potential of video activism on YouTube to form a communicative space for deliberation and dissent. It asks how commenting on activist videos can help sustain civic cultures that allow for both antagonism and inclusive political debate.
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