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Syrian Journalists Covering the War: Assessing Perceptions of Fear and Security
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 1 (2023), pp. 44-62
"This article analyses the dangers and threats faced by Syrian journalists covering the conflict since the pro-democracy protests erupted in March 2011. While most Western research on the Syrian Revolution has focused on the working difficulties faced by correspondents, parachutists or foreign freel
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Critical discourse analysis guided topic modeling: The case of Al-Jazeera Arabic
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 5 (2023), pp. 904-922
"This paper analyzes all the articles and corresponding comments of Al-Jazeera Arabic’s coverage of the Syrian war from 2011 to 2017. I propose a multilayered Critical Discourse Analysis Guided Topic Modeling method that includes context of social structures and processes in the analysis of topics
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Syrian journalists covering the war: Assessing perceptions of fear and security
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 1 (2023), pp. 44-62
"This article analyses the dangers and threats faced by Syrian journalists covering the conflict since the pro-democracy protests erupted in March 2011. While most Western research on the Syrian Revolution has focused on the working difficulties faced by correspondents, parachutists or foreign freel
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Beyond the Humanitarian Savior Logics? UNHCR's Public Communication Strategies for the Syrian and Central African Crises
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 2 (2023), pp. 164-190
"Forcibly displaced people often face restrictive migration policies and stereotypical discourses. Therefore, this study analyzes UNHCR's public communication strategies towards the Syrian and Central African crises. Through a comparative-synchronic multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) of U
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China, media, and international conflicts
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 212 pp.
"This book focuses on China’s media diplomacy and its interplay with a range of international conflicts. It assesses the representation and framing of China, as well as the perception and reception of China’s media communication in relation to various crises and conflicts. Including detailed ana
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Examining Violence against Journalists in Conflict Areas: Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan
Journal of Communication and Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2023), pp. 49-64
"Due to the increasing number of journalists being killed, kidnapped, and imprisoned across the globe, the safety of journalists seems to be deteriorating. The level of violence against journalists varies over time and from area to area, even within the same country. This article analyzes the violen
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Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 346 pp.
"This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the
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"Since Syrians took to the streets more than 11 years ago demanding freedom from decades of dictatorship, the Syrian regime has used violence and disinformation as tools to silence those who dare to oppose it, especially those brave enough to expose the war crimes being committed. Civilians, doctors
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The Digital Worlds of Displacement-Affected Communities: A Cross-Context Study of How People Affected by Displacement Use Mobile Phones
Deep Insights
GSMA; UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) (2022), 76 pp.
"Through in-depth qualitative research and a survey to confirm and quantify findings, this study aims to provide a more holistic understanding of how displacement-affected communities in three humanitarian settings are using their mobile phones. These settings were chosen to provide a variety of per
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Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), vi, 242 pp.
"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme
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Beyond Verification: Flesh Witnessing and the Significance of Embodiment in Conflict News
Journalism, volume 23, issue 3 (2022), pp. 649-667
"While the field of Journalism Studies has already engaged in rich debates on how to rethink the truth conditions of user-generated content (UGC) in platform journalism, we argue that it has missed out on the ethico-political function of UGC as testimonials of lives-at-risk. If we wish to recognize
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Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2022), xv, 355 pp.
"News 'fixers' are translators and guides who assist foreign journalists. Sometimes key contributors to bold, original reporting and other times key facilitators of homogeneity and groupthink in the news media, they play the difficult but powerful role of broker between worlds, shaping the creation
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Syria: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.
"A decade after the beginning of the civil war, Syria remains among the most dangerous environments for journalists and media workers. Between 2011 and 2021, UNESCO’s Observatory recorded 113 killings of journalists. In its 2021 report, covering the years between 2011 and 2020, the Syrian Center f
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Mediatized Arab Diasporas: Understanding the Role of Transnational Media in Diasporic Political Action Formation
Arab Reform Initiative (2022), 21 pp.
"[…] The studies presented here […] seek to explore two questions: how have Arab diasporic communities in Europe used Arab media in transnational political action formation since 2011? And how does the use of different media platforms stimulate or confine particular diasporic action, and what do
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Cyber War and Cyber Peace: Digital Conflict in the Middle East
London: Tauris (2022), xii, 212 pp.
"[...] this is the first anthology to specifically investigate the history and state of cyber warfare in the Middle East. It gathers an array of technical practitioners, social science scholars, and legal experts to provide a panoramic overview and cross-sectional analysis covering four main areas:
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Promoting Newsafety from the Exile: The Emergence of New Journalistic Roles in Diaspora Journalists’ Networks
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1867-1889
"Diaspora journalists and digital media play an important role as stakeholders for war-ridden homeland media landscapes such as Syria. This study analyzes, from a safety in practice perspective, the physical and digital threats that challenge the work of Syrian citizen journalists examining the role
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Peeling the Onion: A Multi-Layered Infodemic and its Impact on Trust for Syrians in Lebanon
Internews (2021), 68 pp.
"Internews focuses primarily on the information ecosystem for Syrian refugees residing in Lebanon to acknowledge and unpack the unique experiences for Syrians at a time when information is heavily impacted by Lebanon’s various compounding crises. The ecosystem for Syrians is assessed here as an ec
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