Yanardagoglu addresses the changes in the media in Turkey during AKP era through the prism of citizenship and communication rights highlighting the transformations in mainstream, minority and born-digital media from a fresh perspective. Her nuanced analysis provides readers with…
The enhanced discursive opportunity structures that the Internet enables has inspired a momentous revolution in the Nigerian media landscape. This dissertation chronicles the emergence and flowering of the citizen and alternative online journalism of the Nigerian diasporic publi…
This essay will elaborate on the South Caucasian conflicts of Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which happened from 1988–1994, and those between Georgia and its breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from 1991—1993. The goal is to show how Cultural Af…
Internet users exceeded 135 million across the 22 Arab countries. Of this, 81 million people are users of one or more social media networks. This new connectedness allows for an unprecedented amount of global inspection into instances of undemocratic and unfair practices by oppr…