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Social media images and conflicts

Mette Mortensen, Ally McCrow-Young (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 137 pp.
"This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in rela ... more
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Examining Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalization Through a Peace Communication Perspective

Flora Khoo (ed.)
New York: Peter Lang (2023), 322 pp.
"This edited book expands the applicability of peace journalism research beyond war to cover terrorism and radicalization, an issue that has not yet been touched by peace journalism scholars." (Publisher description)
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa

Farooq A. Kperogi (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 292 pp.
"Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric ... more
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Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook

Deborah Brown, Rasha Younes
Human Rights Watch (2023), 68 pp.
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Globalisation, geopolitics, and gender in professional communication

Louise Mullany, Stephanie Schnurr (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2023), xiv, 225 pp.
"This edited collection investigates the linguistics of globalisation, geopolitics and gender in workplace cultures in a range of different contemporary international settings. The chapters examine how issues of globalisation, gender and geopolitics affect professionals in different workplace contex ... more
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The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East

Joe F. Khalil, Gholam Khiabany, Tourya Guaaybess, Bilge Yesil (eds.)
New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell (2023), xvi, 550 pp.
"Rather than viewing the Middle East as a monolithic culture, this Handbook examines the diverse and multi-local characteristics of the region’s knowledge production, dynamic media, and rich cultures. It addresses a wide range of topics, including the evolving mainstream and alternative media, com ... more
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Decolonising knowledge production: The experience of the Syrian Female Journalists Network (SFJN)

Hayma Alyousfi, Rand Sabbagh
Gender & Development, volume 31, issue 2-3 (2023), pp. 457–476
"This article delves into the Syrian Female Journalists Network’s (SFJN) approach to decolonise knowledge production, focusing on a multifaceted deconstructive framework. Through an examination of our analytic and deconstructive process of media language and discourse, our methodology centres on i ... more
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Impact Analysis of UNDP Lebanon Media and Peacebuilding Activities (2020-2022)

Beirut: Triangle Consulting; UNDP (2023), 87 pp.
"The UNDP “Peace Building in Lebanon” project has been working since 2007 on enhancing mutual understanding and social cohesion by addressing the root causes of conflict in Lebanon. The project’s third phase (2014-2022) built on the previous two phases and aimed to address new challenges to c ... more
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Automated Neglect: How the World Bank’s Push to Allocate Cash Assistance Using Algorithms Threatens Rights

Brian Stauffer
Human Rights Watch (2023), 158 pp.
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Discord or Dialogue: Religious Authorities on Twitter in Iraq, Lebanon, and Sudan

Jad Safwan
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 33 pp.
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Exploring Disinformation in Fragile States: Iraq as a Case Study of Influence of International Political Actors

Rawand Faeq
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 18 pp.
"This paper examines the influence of international political actors in perpetuating disinformation in fragile states, using Iraq as a case study. The advent of modern technology and social media has transformed the global information landscape, providing new avenues for the dissemination of disinfo ... more
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Fairwork Morocco Ratings 2023: Assessing Working Conditions in the Moroccan Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.
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Challenges and Perspectives of Hate Speech Research
Deep Insights

Christian Strippel, Sünje Paasch-Colberg, Martin Emmer, Joachim Trebbe (eds.)
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (2023), 482 pp.
"This book is the result of a conference that could not take place. It is a collection of 26 texts that address and discuss the latest developments in international hate speech research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. This includes case studies from Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria, ... more
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An analysis of the communication and engagement ecosystem in earthquake-affected northwest Syria

CDAC Network (2023), 25 pp.
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Disputed Archival Heritage

James Lowry (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 342 pp.
"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg ... more
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Tomorrow's journalism in the Southern Mediterranean countries: A study of the needs of the media and independent journalists

Support for Journalists from Southern Mediterranean Countries (2023), 15 pp.
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Photojournalists’ Social and Economic Rights in Lebanon

Nadine Moubarak
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 58 pp.
"The study addresses four key research questions: What are the social and economic rights of photojournalists in Lebanon? To what extent are these rights currently provided? What are the main challenges faced by photojournalists and their Syndicate? What recommendations can be made to enhance the le ... more
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Media and power in modern Iran: Mass communication, ideology, and the state

Emily L. Blout
London: Tauris (2023), x, 222 pp.
"Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic-skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies and rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites as foreign treachery and promoting thems ... more
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Reality on the Ground: Exploring News Production Practices by Syrian Journalists in Times of Conflict

Tania Ouariachi, Lidia Peralta
Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 2 (2023), pp. 283-299
"While most research on the Syrian revolution has been focussing on content analysis about how Western mainstream media cover and frame the conflict, this paper aims at exploring journalistic practices by Syrian journalists. We look at three concrete aspects: the socio-labor profile of the practitio ... more
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Syrian journalists covering the war: Assessing perceptions of fear and security

Lidia Peralta Garcia, Tania Ouariachi
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 ... more