TY - BOOK ID - 80834108 TI - Shades of expression : online political journalism in the post-colour revolution nations PY - 2013 SN - 9781908258786 1908258780 1908258071 9781908258076 PB - Chester, England : University of Chester Press, DB - UniCat KW - Online journalism. KW - Citizen journalism. KW - Journalism KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Literature KW - Publicity KW - Fake news KW - Participatory journalism KW - Public journalism KW - Amateur journalism KW - Blogs KW - Electronic journalism KW - Internet journalism KW - Digital media UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80834108 AB - The Colour Revolutions in the former Soviet Union were arguably the twenty-first century's first successful attempts to overthrow political elites through mass protest and civic society activism. They are of intrinsic interest to media scholars because concepts of media freedom were located at the heart of the protests against semiautocratic post-Communist regimes and have continued to characterise political debate in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. The ideals that underpinned the events were echoed several years later in the Arab world, and both initially involved influential networks of act ER -