Citizen journalism

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…

This dissertation analyses how a youth-led, technologically driven social movement led a collective political struggle for change in Egypt that revolved around the legitimacy of the existing system and demanded rights to expression and participation. It seeks to understand the p…