Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

The Techtonic Shift
Redaktion: Schirch, Lisa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000378917
• Artikelnr.: 61263003

Autorenporträt

Lisa Schirch is Senior Research Fellow at the Toda Peace Institute, Japan, and Visiting Fellow at the Alliance for Peacebuilding and George Mason University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Techtonic Shift: How Social Media Works
2. Digital Information, Conflict, and Democracy
3. Brazil: Weaponized Information and Digitized Hate
4. Colombia: The Use of Social Media in Democratic Spaces: A Double-Edged
Sword
5. Egypt: Social Media Impacts on Civil Society, Violent Extremism &
Government Control
6. India: A False Information Ecosystem
7. India-Pakistan: Civil Society Digital Activism for Peace
8. Jordan: Social Media and Social Change Opportunities and Threats
9. Kenya: Social Media Literacy, Ethnicity and Peacebuilding
10. Myanmar: The Role of Social Media in Fomenting Violence
11. Nigeria: Social Media Dynamics in Boko Haram's Terrorist Insurgence
12. Northern Ireland: Social Media and Conflict Dynamics on the Peace Lines
13. Sri Lanka: Digital Blooms in Social Media and Violence
14. Venezuela: 21st Century Authoritarianism in the Digital Sphere
15. Zimbabwe: Social Media as a Toxic Tool or a Future Bridge to Peace
16. A Peacebuilding Approach to Addressing Social Media Threats