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Digital Activism in the Social Media Era

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    Chapter 1 Dovetailing Desires for Democracy with New ICTs’ Potentiality as Platform for Activism
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    Chapter 2 Engaging in Polarized Society: Social Media and Political Discourse in Ethiopia
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    Chapter 3 Baba Jukwa and the Digital Repertoires of Connective Action in a ‘Competitive Authoritarian Regime’: The Case of Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 4 Digital Activism in Uganda
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    Chapter 5 Citizen Journalism, Cyber-Activism, and ‘Crowdsourcing’: Discussing the Sacking of Sierra Leone’s Vice President Sam Sumana on Facebook and Twitter
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    Chapter 6 Engaged Online: Social Media and Youth Civic Engagement in Kenya
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    Chapter 7 An Engaged Chadian Artist’s Digital Itinerary Towards Political and Civic Success: Pitfalls of Oppression
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    Chapter 8 Twitter and Participatory Citizenship: #FeesMustFall in South Africa
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    Chapter 9 Scrutinizing Hashtag Activism in the #MustFall Protests in South Africa in 2015
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    Chapter 10 @SOS_ZA_#SABC: Civic Discourse and the Negotiation of PSB Principles
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    Chapter 11 Digital Strategies and African LGBTI Organizing
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    Chapter 12 A Resilient Unwanted Civil Society: The Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe Use of Facebook as Alternative Public Sphere in a Dominant Homophobic Society
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    Chapter 13 Blogging, Feminism and the Politics of Participation: The Case of Her Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 14 Gender and Media Representations of Land Based Reforms in Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 15 Broken Silence: #Bringbackourgirls and the Feminism Discourse in Nigeria
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    Chapter 16 Erratum to: Global Activism or Media Spectacle? An exploration of ‘Bring Back Our Girls Campaign’
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Title
Digital Activism in the Social Media Era
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40949-8
ISBNs
978-3-31-940948-1, 978-3-31-940949-8
Editors

Bruce Mutsvairo

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 118 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 11%
Student > Master 12 10%
Researcher 10 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 8%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Other 21 18%
Unknown 44 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 40 34%
Arts and Humanities 14 12%
Computer Science 6 5%
Psychology 3 3%
Unspecified 2 2%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 46 39%