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Syria & the CNN Effect: What Role Does the Media Play in Policy-Making?

Lyse Doucet

Deadalus, volume 147, issue 1 (2018), pp. 141-157

"Syria’s devastating war unfolds during unprecedented flows of imagery on social media, testing in new ways the media’s influence on decision-makers. Three decades ago, the concept of a “CNN Effect” was coined to explain what was seen as the power of real-time television reporting to drive r ... more

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Legal Assessment: Contextualization for the Media Ownership Monitor, Lebanon 2018

Youmna Yazbek

Reporters Without Borders (2018), 10 pp.

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Addressing Hate Speech and Racism in the Media in the Southern Mediterranean: A Review of Formal and Informal Regulatory Approaches

Toby Mendel, Nahla Momani, Bassam Ewedah, Sarah Bouchetob

MedMedia (2018), 46 pp.

"This report looks at media practices and regulatory tools that are available to address hate speech and racism in the media, with a focus on eight countries, namely Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia. The first part looks at regulatory approaches to addressing these pro ... more

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Representations of Africa in African Media: The Case of the Darfur Violence

African Affairs, volume 117, issue 466 (2018), pp. 44-61

"This article examines representation of the conflict in Darfur by the media in Kenya, South Africa, Egypt and Rwanda. It analyses 850 newspaper articles published from 2003 to 2008 and journalist interviews from Kenya and South Africa. Using Mbembe’s articulation of ‘meaningful acts’ and Bour ... 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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Five Questions for Digital Migration Studies: Learning From Digital Connectivity and Forced Migration In(to) Europe

Rianne Dekkers, Godfried Ergbersen, Jeanine Klaver, Hanna Vonk

Social Media + Society, volume 4, issue 1 (2018), 11 pp.

"Social media are increasingly popular channels of information on which migrants base their decisions on whether to migrate and the destinations where to settle. While social media offer a relatively cheap, easily accessible, and media-rich means of communication, their use is not without challenges ... more

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What Role Can Drama Play in Conflict? A Radio Drama for Syria: Qualitative Research Findings

Sally Gowland

London: BBC Media Action (2018), 5 pp.

"Against the backdrop of the war in Syria BBC Media Action produced and broadcast 150 episodes of the radio drama Hay el Matar (Airport District) between 2015 and 2017. Funded by the European Commission as part of a broader project aiming to help build an open and inclusive society in Syria, the dra ... 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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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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Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), vii, 238 pp.

"In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the ... more

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Christian Media

Sara Afshari

In: Christianity in North Africa and West Asia

Kenneth R. Roos; Mariz Tadros; Todd M. Johnson (eds.)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), pp. 417-426

"Christian media in a highly fragile region are faced with a number of challenges: the issues of security, trust and persecution have prevented them from develping more inclusive strategies, strengthening their relationship with their audience or conducting qualitative or quantitative audience resea ... 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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Hören, Sehen, Staunen: Kulturgeschichte des mündlichen Erzählens

Johannes Merkel

Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2. überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2018), 598 pp.

"Beim Stichwort „mündliches Erzählen“ denkt man hierzulande vor allem an „Märchen“, kurze und wundersame Erzählungen der Landbevölkerung vergangener Zeiten. Tatsächlich aber kannten alle Kulturen raffinierte Erzählkünste, die häufig auch Schriftliteratur und Theater inspirierten. Au ... more

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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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Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, But Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver: Deep Political Divides in Many Nations on Satisfaction with News Media

Amy Mitchell, Katy Simmons, Katerina Eva Matsa, Laura Silver

Pew Research Center (2018), 54 pp.

"Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries. Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far mo ... more

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Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice

Sandra Ristovska, Monroe Price (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xvii, 320 pp.

"Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution. The collection argues that accounting for how imag ... more

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Handbook of conspiracy theory and contemporary religion

Asbjørn Dyrendal, David G. Robertson, Egil Asprem (eds.)

Leiden; Boston: Brill (2018), xiii, 556 pp.

"Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how conspiracy theories relate to religion(s). ... more

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Produire des films: Afriques et Moyen Orient

Claude Forest (dir.)

Presses Universitaires du Septentrion (2018), 386 pp.

"Dans des pays caractérisés par une profusion d’images essentiellement venues d’autres continents, et par une production très inégale, voire inexistante, quels ont été les modèles dominants de production ? Quels sont ceux que les mutations en cours font émerger ? Quels sont les enjeux é ... more

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Journalism in Crisis: A Content Analysis of the Emerging Media Sector in Syria

Jaber Bakr, Abdullah Amin Al Hallak

Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation;Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2018), 44 pp.

"This study reveals that news briefs are the most commonly found type of pieces published in the emerging Syrian media sector. Together, news briefs, news reports and feature stories constitute 90 percent of what was published during the monitoring period. Investigative reports were very rare. News ... more

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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