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Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria

Donatella Della Ratta
London: Pluto Press (2018), xiv, 251 pp.
"This ethnography uses the Syrian case to reflect more broadly on how the networked age reshapes contemporary warfare and impacts on the enactment of violence through images and on images. In stark contrast to the techno-utopias celebrating digital democracy and participatory cultures, Donatella Del ... more
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Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
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Yoel Cohen (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp.
"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on- ... more
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Mapping of Media Information Literacy in Jordan

Amman: UNESCO; Networks of Mediterranean Youth Project (Net Med Youth) (2018), 63 pp.
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Freedom of Expression in the Maghreb: Tension Between Laws and the Judiciary Practice

Abdelaziz Nouaydi, Adnane Bouchaib, Mustapha Ben Letaief, Thomas Ebbs
International Media Support (IMS); Vigilance (2018), 55 pp.
"The four countries concerned in this publication – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya - each have a complex set of challenges - and opportunities - in relation to the advancement of free and independent media. Yet, they share several trends and certainly the tensions between laws pertaining to f ... more
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Reforming the Broadcasting Sector in the Southern Mediterranean: A Critical Overview

Dima Dabbous
Tunis: MedMedia Conference (2018), 37 pp.
"The present paper builds on the findings of the previous MedMedia report (Dabbous 2015) by tracking the legal changes that occurred between early 2015 and early 2018. Whenever there are recent legal changes related to broadcasting in general, such changes are mentioned and evaluated. The objective ... more
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Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia

Carola Richter, Anna Antonakis, Cilja Harders (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), vi, 189 pp.
"In times of increasing mediatization and digitalization media play an important role in political and societal transformation processes. The authors of this volume take an actor-centered perspective to shed light on current cases in Arab and Asian countries. They inquire into the ways processes of ... more
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How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa

Ziya Meral
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), x, 217 pp.
"Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent conflicts, or are there other factors at play? How can we make sense of increasing reports of violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic communities acro ... more
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Roots of the New Arab Film

Roy Armes
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2018), xix, 292 pp.
"Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and reta ... more
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Seeing history: The augmented archive

Kaya Behkalam
Weimar: Bauhaus Universität, Doctoral Thesis (2018), 190 pp.
"Ereignisse wie die ägyptische Revolution von/seit 2011 lassen sich als komplexe Medienereignisse beschreiben, in denen Medien weniger eine Dokumentationsfunktion übernehmen, sondern das Ereignis selbst zu einem wesentlichen Teil konstituieren und seinen Verlauf prägen, und die sich damit sowohl ... more
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Les médias en Afrique depuis les indépendances: Bilan, enjeux et perspectives

Ndiaga Loum, Ibrahima Sarr (dir.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 268 pp.
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L'audiovisuel au Maroc en 10 questions: Approche socio-économique

Yassine Akhiate
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 202 pp.
"Le présent ouvrage s'intéresse à la socio-économie de l'audiovisuel au Maroc. Il dresse un panorama des différents questionnements qui concernent le secteur de l'audiovisuel, ses acteurs institutionnels et économiques, ainsi que la dynamique qui les anime. De précieux renseignements y sont f ... more
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The State of Humanitarian Journalism

Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bunce
Humanitarian-journalism.net; University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.
"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not ... more
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Internet News, Media Technologies, and Islam: The Case of Shafaqna

Babak Rahimi
In: Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
Yoel Cohen (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 367-381
"The study examines the case of a Shia online news agency, Shafaqna, to argue that Internet news production by different Muslim organizations has not been limited to propagation nor circulation of religiously sanctioned news but has also been utilized as a way of building interactive identity with r ... more
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Pressefreiheit: Nicht überall erhältlich

iz3w, issue 365 (2018), pp. 13-36
"Die iz3w erscheint in einem Land mit einer »guten Situation« für Presseerzeugnisse (globaler Index der Reporter ohne Grenzen). In vielen Ländern ist die Lage infolge von Repressionen »sehr ernst«, zum Beispiel in China, in Iran oder Sudan. Auch in Ländern zwischen diesen Extremen kann freier ... more
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Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

Lucas Melgaço, Jeffrey Monaghan (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiii, 176 pp.
"This book explores the complex and contradictory relationships between communication and information technologies and social movements by drawing on different case studies from around the world. The contributions analyse how new communication and information technologies impact the way protests are ... more
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Journalisme pour la paix et résolution de conflit dans les médias, tome 1 = Peace journalism and conflict resolution in the media = Periodismo de paz y resolución de conflictos en medios

Andi Faisal Bakti, Pierre Gigùere, Yves Théorêt (eds.)
Paris: Les Editions de l'Immatériel; ORBICOM (2018), 311 pp.
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Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
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Florencia Enghel, Jessica Noske-Turner (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp.
"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are com ... more
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Fördert arabische Populärkultur die Individualisierung? Anschlussdiskurse der Fernsehnutzung bei jungen Ägyptern

Anne Grüne, Kai Hafez
In: Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam: eine Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze zum 65. Geburtstag
Florian Zemmin, Johannes Stephan, Monica Corrado (eds.)
Leiden: Brill (2018), pp. 451-471
"The article revisits classical debates about the positive and negative relation of popular culture and socio-political developments with regard to the Arab world. Within the Frankfurt School and modern Cultural Studies at times contradictory approaches to the role of entertainment in political cult ... more
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Assessing the Freedom of Expression of Syrian Refugee Media Outlets

Maria Assaf
for(e)dialogue, volume 2, issue 1 (2018), pp. 50-66
"Syrian post-uprising media outlets arose during the peaceful phase of the Syrian uprising in early 2011 (Salazar-Ferro, CPJ, 2014). Fewer than 30 of these outlets, funded by Western countries, survived and gradually moved to Turkey, escaping censorship and deteriorating security in Syria. In Turkey ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.
"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more