Shielding or Silencing?: An Investigation into Content Moderation during the Sheikh Jarrah Crisis

H Elmimouni, Y Skop, N Abokhodair, S Rüller… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Social media technologies have been empowering to some human rights activists, providing
a platform for exercising free speech and mobilization. However, many activists have voiced …

Keyboard Fighters: The Use of ICTs by Activists in Times of Military Coup in Myanmar

LG Guntrum - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Amidst the ongoing anti-military protests in Myanmar since 2021, there is a noticeable
research gap on ICT-supported activism. Generally, ICTs play an important role during …

Smartphone resilience: ICT in Ukrainian civic response to the Russian full-scale invasion

K Zarembo, M Knodt, J Kachel - Media, War & Conflict, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In modern warfare, digitalization has blurred the line where civilian ends and military begins.
Embedded in the participative warfare theoretical paradigm, this article looks into how the …

Opaque algorithms, transparent biases: Automated content moderation during the Sheikh Jarrah Crisis

N Abokhodair, Y Skop, S Rüller, K Aal, H Elmimouni - First Monday, 2024 - firstmonday.org
Social media platforms, while influential tools for human rights activism, free speech, and
mobilization, also bear the influence of corporate ownership and commercial interests. This …

Contested Information Environment Framework for Assessing Networked Authoritarian Regimes

D Forner - Journal of Information Policy, 2024 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Abstract Information communication technology (ICT) policy developed to counteract efforts
from networked authoritarian regimes to control the information environment must be …

Ethnography at the Edge: Exploring Research Dynamics in Crisis and Conflict Areas

S Rüller, K Aal, N Abokhodair, H Elmimouni… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This SIG delves into the multifaceted dynamics of conducting ethnographic research in
volatile environments marked by political unrest, conflict, economic or natural disasters. Our …

The Tadamon Massacre: Archiving Violence through the Perpetrators' Gaze

UÜ Üngör - Visual Anthropology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
On 16 April 2013, the Assad regime's Military Intelligence Branch 227 committed a massacre
of over 300 civilians (including women and children) in Damascus, by driving them to a …