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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh
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Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society After 2009
Albany: State University of New York Press (2015), 334 pp.
Chaos and Control: The Competing Tensions of Internet Governance in Iran
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS); Small Media (2015), 52 pp.
"Some key findings from the report include: Iran's primary objective has been to challenge existing internet governance structures, most notably the United States' privileged position vis-Ã -vis the IANA and ICANN; it is too simplistic to say that Iran allies only with authoritarian countries on int
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On Media, Social Movements, and Uprisings: Lessons from Afghanistan, Its Neighbors, and Beyond
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 39, issue 4 (2014), pp. 874-887
"From Tehran to Tahrir Square to Gezi Park-to mention only three key sites of protest made prominent in 2013-social media has been lauded as one of the key factors enabling popular uprisings and social movements. This has provided further hype for new or digital media, which were already being toute
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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations
Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xix, 358 pp.
"Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communic
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Medien, Migration, Partizipation: Eine Studie am Beispiel iranischer Fernsehproduktion im Offenen Kanal
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2014), 481 pp.
"Die Rolle der Medien für die Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten wird in kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Studien oft thematisiert. Doch welche Möglichkeiten haben sie in Deutschland überhaupt, aktiv an der Medienproduktion zu partizipieren? Christine Horz untersucht am Beispiel deutsch-i
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Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: Ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
Deep Insights
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp.
"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich
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Heretics: Iran’s Religious Minorities
Small Media (2014), 148 pp.
"With this report we explore how different religious minorities in Iran use the internet to engage with their communities in Iran and around the world. To build a representative picture, we drew on diverse sources, piecing together historical accounts, content analysis, legal frameworks, and the voi
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Puppetry for All Times: Papers Presented at the Bali Puppetry Seminar 2013
Singapore: Patridge (2014), 389 pp.
"The Puppetry for All Times Seminar held in September of 2013 in Ubud, Bali, was one of the most enchanting of events of its kind held anywhere in recent years. Its success revolved around the fantastic locale, the overwhelming response from performers as well as the paper presenters, and the genero
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Supporting Internet Freedom: The Case of Iran
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 24 pp.
"The aim of this report is not to question the value of supporting Internet freedom in closed societies such as Iran. Rather, the intent is to provide a picture of how difficult it is to achieve progress in such countries. In times of tightening budgets for media development work, it is worth consid
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Filmbilder des Islam
Marburg: Schüren (2014), 250 pp.
"Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht die Thematisierung des Islam im zeitgenössischen Spielfilm: konkret das Aufeinanderprallen von islamischer und westlicher Kultur, sowohl im arabischen Raum, in der Türkei oder im Nahen Osten als auch in Westeuropa. Im Zentrum steht damit auch das Spannungsfeld z
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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa
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Whither Blogestan: Evaluating Shifts in Persian Cyberspace
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication’s Iran Media Program (2014), 45 pp.
"Our research confirms that the Persian blogosphere has undergone significant shifts since the late 2000s as a result of a confluence of multiple factors: state intervention, the rise of social networking sites, changes to iran’s socio-political culture, and personal/professional issues. Our study
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Protest per Handycam: Die Grüne Bewegung im Iran
Marburg: Tectum (2014), 131 pp.
"Die 'Grüne Bewegung', die Protestbewegung infolge der iranischen Präsidentschaftswahlen, machte im Sommer 2009 international Schlagzeilen. Das Mobiltelefon wurde dabei zum Symbol und zur Waffe des Volkes: Mit Handyfotos und -videos wurde das brutale Vorgehen der iranischen Machthaber gegen die Be
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Internet in Chains: The Front Line of State Repression in Iran
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (2014), 49 pp.
"Censorship and state control over the Internet in Iran is changing: it is becoming more systemic and less detectable, posing an ever-greater threat to Iranian users. Increasingly, the state is focusing on developing the technological infrastructure to effectively control access to the Internet insi
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Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle
London; New York: Tauris (2013), xii, 248 pp.
"Politics in the Middle East is now ‘seen’ and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, i
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Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2013), viii, 149 pp.
"Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the importance of treating the Internet as both a site and product of cultural p
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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r
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Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xxvii, 343 pp.
"The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East
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Youth in Iran: A Story Half Told. Values, Priorities and Perspectives of Iranian Youth
Intermedia (2013), 32 pp.
"The purpose of this report is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Iranian youth as a whole, rather than focus on one particular segment. Specifically, this report aims to address the following questions: 1) What are the key values that underlie the attitudes and behaviour of Iranian youth an
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