Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria

Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria
Author: Shola A. Olabode
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1787560147

This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of conflict mobilization in contemporary Nigeria.

Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria

Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria
Author: Shola A. Olabode
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1787560155

This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of conflict mobilization in contemporary Nigeria.

The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age

The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age
Author: Shepherd Mpofu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-11-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030819698

The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future. Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption, human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global South studies.

Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions

Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions
Author: Athina Karatzogianni
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-11-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1839826460

Contains an Open Access chapter.With chapters spanning from the Russian Revolution to the present day, this book considers how art, media and communication technologies have been operationalised to connect, mobilise, organize and inspire the masses in particular national, political, and economic contexts.

Platform Governance and Social Justice

Platform Governance and Social Justice
Author: Paloma Viejo Otero
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2024-11-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1837971064

Identifying four traditional approaches that have underpinned hate speech regulation in the contemporary digital landscape, Paloma Viejo Otero proposes a fifth approach called the Social Justice Approach (SJA), an original contribution to the field of research.

Internet Oligopoly

Internet Oligopoly
Author: Nikos Smyrnaios
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2018-09-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1787691977

Drawing on a historical and political economy analysis, this book provides insight on how, under neoliberal hegemony, the internet was transformed from an emancipatory project for humanity to the final frontier of unrestrained capitalism.

Posthumanism in digital culture

Posthumanism in digital culture
Author: Callum T.F. McMillan
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1800431090

This book explores the theories of transhumanism and posthumanism, two philosophies that deal with radically changing bodies, minds, and even the nature of humanity itself.

Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014

Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014
Author: Athina Karatzogianni
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137317930

This book introduces four waves of upsurge in digital activism and cyberconflict. The rise of digital activism started in 1994, was transformed by the events of 9/11, culminated in 2011 with the Arab Spring uprisings, and entered a transformative phase of control and mainstreaming since 2013 with the Snowden affair.

Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1697
Release: 2020-03-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1799824675

Through the rise of big data and the internet of things, terrorist organizations have been freed from geographic and logistical confines and now have more power than ever before to strike the average citizen directly at home. This, coupled with the inherently asymmetrical nature of cyberwarfare, which grants great advantage to the attacker, has created an unprecedented national security risk that both governments and their citizens are woefully ill-prepared to face. Examining cyber warfare and terrorism through a critical and academic perspective can lead to a better understanding of its foundations and implications. Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is an essential reference for the latest research on the utilization of online tools by terrorist organizations to communicate with and recruit potential extremists and examines effective countermeasures employed by law enforcement agencies to defend against such threats. Highlighting a range of topics such as cyber threats, digital intelligence, and counterterrorism, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for law enforcement, government officials, lawmakers, security analysts, IT specialists, software developers, intelligence and security practitioners, students, educators, and researchers.

Likewar

Likewar
Author: Peter Warren Singer
Publisher: Eamon Dolan Books
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2018
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1328695743

Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense experts P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking.