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Media Ownership Monitor Morocco

Reporters Without Borders;Le Desk (2017), 618 pp.

"Nine of the 36 media companies involved in Morocco’s most influential media are directly linked to the state, the government or the royal family. Four of them – SOREAD, SNRT, EcoMedias and Horizon Press – are among the most important media companies in terms of turnover and show the potential ... more

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Data Journalism in the Arab World: Survey Results

Jihad Al Shebeni (coord.)

Cairo: Arab Data Journalists' Network (2017), 20 pp.

"The survey aims to measure how much Arab data journalists use data in their stories and how easy or difficult it is for them to get data from official sources, and to be conducted again in the future for a deeper and wider look at the situation." (Page 3)

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Survey on Youth and Media in Palestine

Nader Said, Muna Amasheh

Ramallah: NET-MED Youth Project;Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD);UNESCO (2017), 23 pp.

"Seventy one percent of Palestinian youth say that they are most interested in following local news and events, 14% are most interested in following regional and international news and events, while 15% don’t follow the news at all. New media platorms are utlized the most by youth in the case of a ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.

"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: Internet Governance from the Edges. National and Regional IGFs in Their Own Words

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 87 pp.

"It is precisely to counterbalance what are largely “outsider” views in the main edition of Global Information Society Watch that we wanted this companion edition to capture the origin stories, achievements and challenges of National and Regional IGF Initiative (NRI) in their own words. Their st ... more

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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Anya Schiffrin, Beatrice Santa-Wood, Susanna De Martino, Ellen Hume, Nicole Pope

Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.

"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W ... more

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La circulation des productions culturelles: Cinémas, informations et séries télévisées dans les mondes arabes et musulmans

Dominique Marchetti (ed.)

Rabat; Istanbul: Centre Jacques-Berque;Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes (2017), 287 pp.

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Global Media Giants
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Benjamin J. Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gómez, Janet Wasko (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 496 pp.

"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C ... more

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The Arab World Online 2017: Digital Transformations and Societal Trends in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Fadi Salem

Dubai: Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (2017), 61 pp.

"In this decade of digital transformation in the region, the Arab World stands at a critical juncture, where the internet is driving three interconnected waves of change: 1. A developmental juncture: The emergence of an online critical mass of 173 million interconnected people online today is creati ... more

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Popular Mobilization Messaging

James Amon Garrison

The Hague: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) (2017), 25 pp.

"This Research Paper examines the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Unit’s (PMU) messaging on the organisation’s website and social media platforms through early January 2017 to develop a more nuanced understanding of the PMU’s outlook, both present and future. After providing an overview of the PMU� ... more

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Fotoreporter im Konflikt: Der internationale Fotojournalismus in Israel/Palästina

Felix Koltermann

Bielefeld: transcript (2017), 456 pp.

"Das Handeln von Fotojournalisten in Konflikten stellt einen bisher wenig beachteten Teilbereich des Auslands- und Konfliktjournalismus dar. Felix Koltermann wirft erstmals in Form einer vergleichenden Kommunikatorstudie einen differenzierten Blick auf journalistisches Handeln internationaler, israe ... more

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The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-Making, and Humanitarian Intervention

Douglas Brommesson, Ann-Marie Ekengren

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xiii, 206 pp.

"This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic. The authors analyze media logic under three specific scope conditions: uncertainty, identity, resonance. First, they lay out the general adaptation of media logic in the general debate of the UN General Assembly ... more

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Media Interventions as Humanitarian Action

Shawn Powers

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 416-427

"This chapter aims to introduce the concept of an information intervention as an example of humanitarian action. Typically associated negatively with government efforts to incite conflict and tension, two case studies are explored-Haiti and Syria-to better understand how state-led information interv ... more

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Last Station Before Hell: United Nations Peacekeepers

Pierre-Olivier François

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 428-434

"The article discusses the film 'Last Station Before Hell' by Pierre-Olivier François. United Nations' Peacekeepers known as the Blue Helmets, are often the subject of criticism and negative press reports. Most notably they have been blamed for transmitting cholera to the victims of the earthquake ... more

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International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
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Belinha S. De Abreu, Paul Mihailidis, Alice Y. L. Lee, Jad Melki, Julian McDougall (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 415 pp.

"At the forefront in its field, this Handbook examines the theoretical, conceptual, pedagogical and methodological development of media literacy education and research around the world. Building on traditional media literacy frameworks in critical analysis, evaluation, and assessment, it incorporate ... more

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Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life

Deborah L. Wheeler

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), xi, 194 pp.

"This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it presents a grass roots look at how new media use f ... more

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Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

Stephen M. Croucher (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), vii, 376 pp.

"What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geograph ... more

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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic

Annabelle Sreberny, Massoumeh Torfeh (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.

"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive ... more

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Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-First Century
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Zahera Harb (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2017), xii, 226 pp.

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Journalism and the Islamic Worldview: Journalistic Roles in Muslim-Majority Countries

Nurhaya Muchtar, Basyouni Ibrahim Hamada, Thomas Hanitzsch, Ashraf Galal, Masduki & Mohammad Sahid Ullah

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 555-575

"This paper looks at the extent to which journalistic culture in Muslim-majority countries is shaped by a distinctive Islamic worldview. We identified four principles of an Islamic perspective to journalism: truth and truth-telling (siddiq and haqq), pedagogy (tabligh), seeking the best for the publ ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Global Media Giants
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International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
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Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-First Century
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