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‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation (2025)
Thesis
Joseph, M. (2025). ‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5126363

'Bowling Alone or Blogging Together' is an empirical account of community, based in geographic reality but played out in the social media realm of neighbourhood Facebook groups. It is an account of how, in the face of decline of traditional forms of... Read More about ‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation.

Social media, transparency and freedom of expression : an empirical analysis on the triad’s contribution to good governance practices in Tanzania (2022)
Thesis
Mwainyekule, L. H. Social media, transparency and freedom of expression : an empirical analysis on the triad’s contribution to good governance practices in Tanzania. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224442

This study investigates social media’s contribution to transparency and freedom of expression. Its main aim is to establish if online platforms contribute to the prerequisites of good governance, especially in countries where laws and regulations are... Read More about Social media, transparency and freedom of expression : an empirical analysis on the triad’s contribution to good governance practices in Tanzania.

(De)constructing difference: a qualitative review of the ‘othering’ of UK Muslim communities, extremism, soft harms, and Twitter analytics (2016)
Journal Article
Carter, D. M. (2017). (De)constructing difference: a qualitative review of the ‘othering’ of UK Muslim communities, extremism, soft harms, and Twitter analytics. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 9(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/19434472.2016.1236142

There is some evidence that, in the UK, current counter terrorism initiatives reproduce and amplify both real and imagined differences between Muslim and anti-Muslim groups, leading in turn to social and community polarisation and isolation. It is fa... Read More about (De)constructing difference: a qualitative review of the ‘othering’ of UK Muslim communities, extremism, soft harms, and Twitter analytics.