Call: Journal of Communication Special Issue on Social Media and the “Arab Spring”

Phil Howard and Malcolm Parks are putting together a special issue of the Journal of Communication on communication technologies and political resistance in the Middle East and North Africa. The email from Malcolm Parks and the full call are below.

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My new journal article: “Explaining the Failure of an Online Citizen Engagement Initiative: The Role of Internal Institutional Variables”

This article presents an exploratory case study based on fieldwork consisting of in-depth, semistructured interviews and group discussions with administrative, legal, political, and technology staff involved in an online citizen engagement initiative in “TechCounty,” a pseudonymous U.S. local government authority operating in one of the most favorable sociodemographic and technological contexts imaginable.

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