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Palestinian Territories Media Landscape Guide

Mohammed Asaker et al.

CDAC Network (2022), 20 pp.

"This Media Landscape Guide provides a snapshot of the media in the Palestinian territories. It includes information on audiences, content producers and languages associated with the media and examines the communications culture and preferences of different groups in the community. The guide gives a ... more

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The Unfreedom Monitor: Morocco Country Report

Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 27 pp.

"Journalists and independent press are tried and prosecuted with harsh charges that reach up to 20 years of imprisonment under the Penal Code, rather than the Press Code of 2016, which abolished imprisonment for criticising the monarch. The government closely monitors and controls media content thro ... more

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The Unfreedom Monitor: Egypt Country Report

Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 20 pp.

"According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), half of the media in the country is owned by the government or affiliated with the intelligence services. The rest are owned by pro-government businessmen. The few independent press websites that are still open have been blocked. Their owners and editor ... more

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Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation

Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Andreas Wenger (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 272 pp.

"Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyberspace in conflictual settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state acto ... more

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Social Media in Morocco: From Grassroots Activism to Electoral Campaigns

Hayat Douhan, Eleonora Landucci, Lena Richter

Giga Focus Middle East, issue 4 (2022), 11 pp.

"The Moroccan elections of September 2021 were unusual for various reasons. As electoral campaigning took place under pandemic circumstances, social media played a role previously unseen and contributed significantly to the unexpected victory of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), a liberal pa ... more

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How Lebanese Elites Coopt Protest Discourse: A Social Media Analysis

Alexandra Siegel

Beirut: Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) (2022), 17 pp.

"This report leverages social media data to provide real-time measures of how diverse elites have strategically co-opted protest narratives during Lebanon's 2019 October revolution. Social media data provides temporally granular measures of elites' political communication strategies, as well as thei ... more

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The Revolution Will be Televised in Arabic: Iran’s Media Infrastructure Abroad

Hamdi Malik

Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2022), 19 pp.

"The media space is increasingly becoming yet another battlefield for the Islamic Republic to consolidate its hegemony throughout the Middle East. Iran’s media outreach, particularly in Arabic, is only likely to increase, especially online. Supreme Leader Khamenei is keen to see more activities do ... more

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Mediatized Arab Diasporas: Understanding the Role of Transnational Media in Diasporic Political Action Formation

Sarah Anne Rennick, Ehab Galal, Thomas Fibiger, Zenia Yonus, Mostafa Shehata

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 ... more

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Counter-Hegemonic Collaborations or Alliances of the Underdogs? The Case of TeleSUR with Al-Mayadeen, RT and CGTN

Pablo Sebastian Morales

Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 3 (2022), pp. 365-382

"This study explores how news channels from the Global South challenge western narratives by co-producing TV programmes. It focuses on Telesur (Venezuela) and its collaborations with RT (Russia), Al-Mayadeen (Lebanon) and CCTV/CGTN (China). By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this pap ... more

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The Effect of Children’s Exposure to the YouTube Platform Moshaya Family Channel on Socialization of the Saudi Child Regarding Life Satisfaction

Afnan A Qutub, Alaa A Muhammad,

Global South, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 437-463

"This study aims to measure the effects of exposure to a YouTube platform, the Moshaya Family Channel, on the socialization of children. We monitored the content provided by the channel and how children are affected by it in terms of moral and behavioral aspects, specifically the impacts of their re ... more

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TikTok Intifada: Analyzing Social Media Activism Among Youth

Laila Abbas, S. Shahira Fahmy, Mirna Ibrahim

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 287-314

"This study uses TikTok as a novel medium to extend the literature on online activism. It adds to the emergent body of knowledge about playful political participation among youth. It also explores how creative micro-videos can be a force to create momentum and shape opinions around social and politi ... more

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A critical analysis of journalists’ freedom of expression and access to information while reporting on COVID-19 issues: A case of selected Arab countries

Miral Sabry AlAshry

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 193-212

"The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which Arab Governments limited freedom of expression and access to information for journalists while they reported on COVID-19-related issues. Design/methodology/approach: Focus group discussions were conducted with 20 journalists from Egypt ... more

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Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’

Jacob Copeman, Mascha Schulz (eds.)

London: UCL Press (2022), xix, 359 pp.

"Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and part ... more

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Israeli Information Policy, COVID-19 and the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim

Yoel Cohen, Ahuva Spitz

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 45-67

"Against the background of the COVID-19 crisis in Israel, the country’s ultra-orthodox population, the Haredim, were faced with seemingly insuperable dilemmas of compromising their religious standards for the sake of dealing with the virus. The government launched a public relations campaign to pe ... more

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Digital Livelihoods Undone: Digital Skills Training and the Systematic Exclusion of Refugees in Lebanon

Rabih Shibli, Sarah Kouzi

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2022), pp. 42-47

"A decade into the Syrian war, Lebanon remains the country hosting the largest number of refugees per capita worldwide, limiting their work to three sectors of the economy. Most of the employed refugees have therefore been active in the informal market under indecent and insecure working conditions. ... more

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Data Protection Laws in Northern Africa: Regulatory Approaches, Key Principles, Selected Documents

Patricia Boshe, Moritz Henneman

Beirut: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), 75 pp.

"This report provides an in-depth overview of the current state and trends of data protection regulation of seven North African countries – namely Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Libya, Sudan, and Tunisia. The st udy tackles regulatory approaches, key principles, and selected instruments. Fro ... more

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The Digital Worlds of Displacement-Affected Communities: A Cross-Context Study of How People Affected by Displacement Use Mobile Phones
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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 ... more

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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Libya

Raiyan Kabir, Elizabeth Santucci, Jill Shemin, Craig Jolley

USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2022), 85 pp.

"Key findings include: Connectivity infrastructure is fairly well developed in coastal urban areas but lags behind in Libya’s sparsely populated southern region; COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of digital tools and services across sectors; however, Libyans are reluctant to adopt new tools du ... more

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Promoting Newsafety from the Exile: The Emergence of New Journalistic Roles in Diaspora Journalists’ Networks

Porlezza, Colin, Rana Arafat

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 ... more

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Counter Digital Revolution, Disinformation, and Journalistic Constraints in Arab Media

Sahar Khamis, Khalid Al-Jaber

Journalism Research, volume 5, issue 3 (2022), pp. 234-252

"The spread of social media platforms ushered the beginning of an unprecedented communication era, which is borderless, immediate, widespread, and defies restrictions and censorship. Digital technology aided the spread of democracy and freedom of expression and helped to overthrow some Arab regimes ... more

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