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Das digitale Kalifat: Die geheime Macht des Islamischen Staates
München: Beck (2016), 299 pp.
"Viele Computerspiele faszinieren durch die Verbindung von mittelalterlichem Ambiente und Hightech. Genau hier liegt für viele Jihadisten auch die Faszination des IS, der eine "mittelalterliche" Ordnung mit Hilfe des Internets aufrechterhält. Das Steuersystem orientiert sich am Koran, wird aber di
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Kidnapping of Journalists: Reporting from High-Risk Conflict Zones
Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), vii, 100 pp.
"The vulnerability of journalists to kidnappings was starkly illustrated by the killing of James Foley and Steven Sotloff by Islamic militants in 2014. Their murder underscored the risks taken by journalists and news organisations trying to cover developments in dangerous regions of the world and ha
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Winning the Information War: Techniques and Counter-Strategies to Russian Propaganda in Central and Eastern Europe
Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2016), 64 pp.
"Currently, no dedicated agency or systematic effort analyzes the effect of Russian (or any other) disinformation. Who really watches Russia Today? Where? For how long? And why? Nor do we have the means to systematically track the content: How does the Kremlin’s message in Germany differ from the
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Building Peace Through Journalism in the Social/Alternate Media
Media and Communication, volume 4, issue 1 (2016), pp. 63-79
"Social media networks are rapidly rewriting the traditional principles and protocols of war and conflict reporting. This paper endorses the argument that with the help of new media technologies, journalists can enhance the peacebuilding efforts in societies and communities. Their writings in the al
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"Project locations experienced general improvement with regards to social cohesion and conflict resolution. This was particularly the case in Wau, where results were encouraging. In contrast, Bor continued to feature more negative results than other project locations, although the county saw importa
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Tendances mondiales en matières de liberté d'expression et de dévelppement des médias: Regards sur le numérique 2015
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2015), 210 pp.
"This short booklet aims to provide some pointers and practical advice on how to stay safe while getting closer to the heart of what is going on. It is not an exhaustive guide to reporting conflict but a short introduction to some of the challenges reporters face in a bitterly divided area. Expect t
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The New Syrian Press: Appraisal, Challenges and Outlook
Paris: CFI (2015), 19 pp.
"With 4 million refugees in neighbouring countries and six and a half million Internally Displaced Persons within Syria, communication tools have become critical for the Syrian population to maintain contact with their family and friends both inside and outside the country. The costs associated with
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Review: Journalistic Ethics and Practices in Conflict Societies
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2015), 74 pp.
"This paper provides a critical review of literature on journalism in conflict societies (‘conflict journalism’), by investigating principal theories, concepts and arguments, as well as empirical research findings concerning journalism and its role in democratisation processes and conflicts [...
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Trauma and Public Memory
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.
"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle
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Collective Memory as a Resource in Russian Information Warfare Against Latvia
Journalism Research (Žurnalistikos tyrimai, engl. edition), issue 8 (2015), pp. 92-115
"The paper analyses articles from the Russian language newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, which are devoted to the war in Ukraine. The paper consists of two parts. The first part of this paper explains how the conceptualization of the information warfare has evolved during the second half of the 20th c
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Media, Discussion, and Attitudes in Fragile Contexts
Deep Insights
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 48 pp.
"The report explores how discussion programmes – where a diverse audience, representing the whole of society, is engaged in fair and balanced debate – can stimulate both private/interpersonal discussion and public discussion in either a community setting or one hosted by local government. It the
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How Can We Tell the Story of the Colombian War? Bastardized Narratives and Citizen Celebrities
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 13, issue 2 (2015), pp. 170-182
"This article explores how popular culture theory can be used in postconflict situations to raise awareness about human rights violations. This case study investigates a media narrative produced by the Memory Center in Colombia, about a political assassination of a community leader. On February 12,
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Communication for Development in Peacebuilding: Directions on Research and Evaluation for an Emerging Field
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 6 (2015), pp. 801-817
"This article highlights the key areas in which Communication for Development (C4D) can play a role in the aftermath of conflict, with a focus both at the community and at the national level. It provides an overview of the literature that has begun to discuss C4D in the light of peace creation. It i
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Afghanistan’s Fourth Estate: Independent Media
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2015), 4 pp.
"Over the last decade, Afghanistan has experienced the rise of a robust media sector. Programming fills the airwaves with everything from news to comedy, open debate to open audition, soap operas to police dramas to ABCs. Journalists, however, operate in a climate of fear and insecurity, under threa
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Ethnic Conflict Goes Mobile: Mobile Technology’s Effect on the Opportunities and Motivations for Violent Collective Action
Journal of Peace Research, volume 52, issue 3 (2015), pp. 323-337
"This analysis contributes to the body of research testing the effect of mobile phone availability on the probability of violent conflict by shifting the unit of analysis to that of distinct ethnic groups. This approach provides two important advantages. First, it tests the robustness of this relati
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