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    Social media as instrument of global mobilisation: a textual analysis of the 'bring back our girls' campaign

    2015
    The abduction of over 200 female students from Chibok in April, 2014, by the outlawed Boko Haram insurgents attracted global condemnation which went viral on social media.
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    Using the media for conflict transformation: the Common Ground experience

    Radio for Peace Building Africa, 2002
    The focus of this paper is to explore initiatives through which the media of a conflict-ridden country and region can potentially effect cooperation and even conflict resolution.The report explores the potentials of media in transforming conflict situations, and also presents some possible avenues through which NGO’s can develop these potentials.The authors highlight the following as some of
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    Freedom and responsibility: representative on freedom of the media

    Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2005
    This document outlines the global position of the media in 2004. Arguing that media is the very essence of the contemporary connotations of knowledge, the report outlines how the role of the media reflects democracy and freedom within society.The reports focuses on the growth of the internet which has increased the availability and volume of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ content.
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    Study of media in the North-East of Sri Lanka

    Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka, 2003
    This report examines the situation of the media in the North-East of Sri Lanka and its part in the ethno-political conflict of the country. It argues that after decades of ossified media culture it is now possible, after only fourteen months since the ceasefire, to detect some signs of change.