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Digital Jihad: Online Communication and Violent Extremism

Francesco Marone (ed.)
Milano: Ledizioni LediPublishing; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) (2019), 156 pp.
"[...] this ISPI report aims to investigate the current landscape of jihadist online communication, including original empirical analysis. In doing so, the volume does not interpret the internet as a shapeless monolith but tries to highlight the opportunities and limitations of different digital pla ... more
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The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture

Jessica Retis, Roza Tsagarousianou (eds.)
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2019), xxi, 602 pp.
"The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumptio ... more
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Revisiting Leadership in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-Enabled Activism: A Study of Egypt’s Grassroots Human Rights Groups

Evronia Azer, G. Harindranath, Yingqin Zheng
New Media & Society, volume 21, issue 5 (2019), pp. 1141-1169
"Scholars argue that contemporary movements in the age of social media are leaderless and self-organised. However, the concept of connective leadership has been put forward to highlight the need for movements to have figures who connect entities together. This study conducts a qualitative research o ... more
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Arab Millennials’ Articulation of Identity in Cyberspace: A Study of Three MENA YouTubers

Mohammad Ayish, Abeer Al-Najjar
Arab Media & Society, issue 27 (2019), pp. 26-40
"This study investigates how three young Arab influencers negotiate their identities in cyberspace. Abdallah Al Maghlouth, Abdulrahman Mohammed, and Laila Hzaineh were selected for this study because they were listed among the top MENA influencers by the Arab Social Media Summit (2015) or by Stepfee ... more
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Medien und Demokratie im Irak: Öffentlichkeit im Kontext von Transformation und bewaffneten Konflikten

Anja Wollenberg
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2019), x, 446 pp.
"Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, welche Rolle Massenmedien in der politischen Transformation im Irak nach 2003 gespielt haben. Dabei diskutiert Anja Wollenberg zunächst, ob und in welcher Weise politischer Wettbewerb, Partizipation, Kritik und Kontrolle von irakischen Rundfunkmedien ermöglicht ... more
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Social Media Activism in Egyptian Television Drama: Encoding the Counter-Revolution Narrative

Gianluca P. Parolin
Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 143-160
"Egyptian Ramadan TV series have explored the relationship between law and television in a number of iterations over the past few years. In 2017, the most watched production (115 million views on YouTube), Kalabsh, went one step further by examining the interaction between television broadcasting an ... more
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Social Media in Egypt: Impacts on Civil Society, Violent Extremism & Government Control

Sabine Shyre
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 7 pp.
"Throughout this policy brief, we vet the use of social media in a major Middle Eastern country - Egypt - where the youth took to the streets to express frustrations that lasted almost a lifetime. While social media helped topple autocratic dictator, Hosni Mubarak, it played the role of Pandora’s ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
Deep Insights

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Article 19; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service ... more
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Syria on the move - Lawein Al-Azim? Über den Einsatz von Fotografie als Erkenntnis- und Ausdrucksmedium

Anja Pietsch
In: Diaspora: Netzwerke globaler Gemeinschaften
Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (ed.)
Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2019), pp. 191-199
"Das mehrstufige Projekt ‚Syria on the Move‘ zielt darauf ab, aus Syrien geflüchteten Jugendlichen mittels Fotografie eine Stimme zu geben, Bewusstsein und Unterstützung für syrische Geflüchtete in den Aufnahmegesellschaften zu mobilisieren sowie gegenseitiges Vertrauen innerhalb der syrisch ... more
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Funding Guide for Arab Producers

Irit Neidhardt
Beirut DC; Terso (2019), 121 pp.
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Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents

Mehita Iqani, Fernando Resende
London et al.: Routledge (2019), xvi, 207 pp.
"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and con ... more
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Media Influence Matrix: Jordan. Government, Politics and Regulation

Ian Graham
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 22 pp.
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Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent

Alan MacLeod (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2019), x, 171 pp.
"Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself. 2018 ... more
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ISIS Media

Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2019), 45 pp.
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Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts: An Ethnographic Perspective

Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour
Cham: Palgrave Pivot (2019), xi, 147 pp.
"Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children's uses of digital media in three sites - London, Casablanca and Beirut - and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global ... more
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Human Security as a Conceptual Framework: The Case of Palestinian Journalists

Carol B. Schwalbe, Jeannine E. Relly, Sally Ann Cruikshank, Ethan H. Schwalbe
Journalism Studies, volume 13 (2019), pp. 1920-1939
"This exploratory study introduces a human security framework to examine the challenges that journalists face from daily professional and societal constraints and pressures when attempting to fulfill their role to inform the public in areas of conflict. The research focuses on the influences on Pale ... more
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Freedom of Sharing and Violations Against Journalists on Social Media Sites in Palestine: The Range of Violations is Growing

Ghazi Ahmad Bani Odeh
Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2019), 61 pp.
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Viability of Alternative Online News Media Organizations in Developing and Transformation Countries

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2019), 209 pp.
"The main aim of the present study is to assess the status quo and the influencing factors of media viability in developing countries and economies in transition. Accordingly, three general research questions have been formulated: 1. Which factors determine the viability of alternative online news m ... more
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Media in the Global Context: Applications and Interventions

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxii, 272 pp.
"This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values of nationals from the war regions. It identifies the cultural patterns in remote communities that have been 'diluted' by IT and the extent to which the changes impacted t ... more
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The Legal Framework on Freedom of Expression in Morocco

Jocelyn Grange
Rabat: Adala; IREX Europe; Article; UNESCO Office in Rabat (2019), 33 pp.