[كتاب][B] Censored: distraction and diversion inside China's Great Firewall

M Roberts - 2018‏ - degruyter.com
As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for
controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be …

Troops, trolls and troublemakers: A global inventory of organized social media manipulation

S Bradshaw, P Howard - Computational propaganda research project, 2017‏ - ora.ox.ac.uk
Cyber troops are government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating
public opinion over social media. In this working paper, we report on specific organizations …

Strategic narrative: A new means to understand soft power

L Roselle, A Miskimmon, B O'loughlin - Media, war & conflict, 2014‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Soft power in its current, widely understood form has become a straitjacket for those trying to
understand power and communication in international affairs. Analyses of soft power …

Unpacking the use of social media for protest behavior: The roles of information, opinion expression, and activism

S Valenzuela - American behavioral scientist, 2013‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Recent studies have shown a positive link between frequency of social media use and
political participation. However, there has been no clear elaboration of how using social …

[كتاب][B] Personal connections in the digital age

NK Baym - 2015‏ - books.google.com
The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings
of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our …

The global organization of social media disinformation campaigns

S Bradshaw, PN Howard - Journal of International Affairs, 2018‏ - JSTOR
Social media has emerged as a powerful tool for political engagement and expression.
However, state actors are increasingly leveraging these platforms to spread computational …

[كتاب][B] Media and protest logics in the digital era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

FLF Lee, JM Chan - 2018‏ - books.google.com
Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements
around the world. They strengthen the mobilization power of movements, extend movement …

Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states

M Wijermars, T Lokot - Post-Soviet Affairs, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the practices, performance, and perceptions of the messaging platform
Telegram as an actor in the 2020 Belarus protests, using publicly available data from …

The psychology of collective action

LE Duncan - 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Personality and social psychology research on motivation for collective action is reviewed
and integrated into a model. Integrating individual difference variables into the study of …

Facebook, Twitter, and youth engagement: A quasi-experimental study of social media use and protest behavior using propensity score matching

S Valenzuela, A Arriagada, A Scherman - International Journal of …, 2014‏ - ijoc.org
This study examines changes in the association between social media use and protest
behavior in the context of growing social unrest among the younger population. Using …