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Arab authorities use digital surveillance to control press freedom: Journalists’ perceptions

Miral Sabry AlAshry
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, volume 25, issue 3 (2023), pp. 250-266
"The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent of digital surveillance by Arab authorities, which face risks and threats of surveillance, and how journalists seek to press freedom by using tools and techniques to communicate securely. Design/methodology/approach: The study used focus group ... more
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Between Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States

Henriette Müller, Christin Camia
Politics & Gender, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 166-194
"The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have increased their promotion of women in public life. The expansion of women’s rights in these states functions as a central policy tool to stimulate modernization processes. This article investigates how the Gulf governments steer women’s empowerment ... more
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Is the Arab Audience Willing to Pay for Online News? Predictors of Their Paying Intent

Elsayed Bekhit Darwish
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 16, issue 1 (2023), pp. 35-53
"This study examines to what extent Arab audiences are willing to support these strategies, and what factors influence their willingness to pay (WTP) for online news, using a survey of 530 adults. The study found most of the public is not willing to pay for online newspapers, but are willing to pay ... more
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Transitional Justice in Syria: Practical Solutions

Beirut: Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) (2022), 56 pp.
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Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon

Leonardo Schiocchet
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 264 pp.
"This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersectionality of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness and ... more
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Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse

Sara Shaban
Lanham: Lexington Books (2022), vii, 137 pp.
"Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse explores how U.S. news and social media discourse hierarchies overshadow transnational feminist politics and reinforce femonationalist narratives, thereby unpacking how protesters' voices on the ground are obscured in favor of elite sourc ... more
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Lebanon's 2022 Parliamentary Election: A Look into Political Parties' Online Behaviour Vis-à-vis Alternative Candidates

Ralph Baydoun, Yara Al Chehayed
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2022), 132 pp.
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Morocco Media Landscape Guide

Mahdi Bouziane et al.
CDAC Network; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 23 pp.
"This Media Landscape Guide provides a snapshot of the media in Morocco, including the audiences, the producers, the preferences of different groups in the community, the communications culture, and the languages associated with the media. It gives an insight into the role of media in development wo ... more
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China's Discourse Power Operations in the Global South: An overview of Chinese Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East

Kenton Thibaut
Washington, DC: Atlantic Council of the United States (2022), 23 pp.
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A Matter of Organisational Silence: Media Managers Struggling to Make Sense of the Online Harassment of Journalists as a Collective Issue in Journalism

Sylvain Malcorps, Manon Libert, Florence Le Cam
Digital Journalism, volume 11, issue 10 (2022), pp. 1868-1885
"The online harassment of journalists is a phenomenon which has been on the rise in Europe over the last decade and it affects journalists' working lives. As an expression of mob censorship, online harassment raises questions about how media organisations react to online aggressions targeting their ... more
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Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

Panayiota Tsatsou (ed.)
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 ... more
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Conflict narratives in the news and digital spaces: The dangerous placebo of geopolitical power and their digital news versus technology effects on stories of water and border disuptes in Africa

Loubna Mckouar
Africa No Filter (2022), iii, 31 pp.
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We Need to Talk: Measuring Intercultural Dialogue for Peace and Inclusion

Paris: UNESCO; Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) (2022), 107 pp.
"Currently, 1.5 billion people live in countries with low Intercultural Dialogue where global challenges such as absolute poverty, terrorism and forced displacement are more prevalent. To forge effective cooperation and sustain peace, strengthening Intercultural Dialogue must be a priority. For the ... more
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
Deep Insights

Heidi A. Campbell, Ruth Tsuria (ed.)
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual ... more
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Traumatic Past in the Present: COVID-19 and Holocaust Memory in Israeli Media, Digital Media, and Social Media

Liat Steir-Livny
Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 3 (2022), pp. 464-478
"The COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, spread to the rest of the world in 2020 and still holds nations in its grip in 2021. There is scant research on the way it has affected Holocaust awareness. Based on scholarly work on Holocaust awareness in Israel, the top-down memory of the Holocaust in the med ... more
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The Chilling: A Global Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists
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Julie Posetti, Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); UNESCO (2022), 325 pp.
"This ground-breaking three-year global study on gender-based online violence against women journalists represents collaborative research covering 15 countries. It is the most geographically, linguistically, and ethnically diverse scoping of the crisis conducted up until late 2022. The research draw ... more
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Numérique et développement au Maroc: La grande fracture

Yahya El Yahyaoui
Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 326 pp.
"Depuis le début du siècle courant, le Maroc a entrepris une série de stratégies centrées sur les technologies numériques. Il en a fait un choix politique délibéré et de premier ordre. La logique sous-jacente à l’ensemble de ces stratégies consistait à faire du numérique un outil de d ... more
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The Global Handbook of Media Accountability
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Susanne Fengler, Tobias Eberwein, Matthias Karmasin (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 614 pp.
"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in ... more
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Morocco: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 6 pp.
"The MDP has sought throughout the reporting period to assist in the implementation of Morocco’s new legal framework, while also supporting compliance to international standards. Actions build on previous work such as an agreement signed with the Ministry for the Reform of Public Administration in ... more
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Shifting Cyberfeminism and Gendered Activisms in the Gulf: A Saudi Feminist Spring?

Sahar Khamis
Journal of Arabian Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-23
"This qualitative feminist study sheds light on women’s shifting identities, struggles, and resistances in the most conservative Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, unpacking the shifting socio-political and mediated environments in this country and their impact on gendered activism. Through conducting in-d ... more