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Journalistic Practices, Role Perceptions and Ethics in Democratisation Conflicts: Empirical Findings from Interviews with Journalists in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa

Judith Lohner, Sandra Banjac, Irene Neverla

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 82 pp.

"This report provides an overview of core comparative findings from MeCoDEM interviews with journalists in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa. It investigates the role of journalistic actors in transitional societies across a set of comparable democratisation conflicts and themes of inquiry: jour ... more

Mapping Structural Conditions of Journalism in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa

Judith Lohner, Sandra Banjac, Irene Neverla

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 124 pp.

"Structural conditions are to be understood as the totality of (formal and informal) orders and structures that characterise media and journalism in a certain space, most commonly, a country. Eleven interrelated and interdependent dimensions of structural conditions relevant to media and journalism ... more

Exit and Voice in a Digital Age: Iran's Exiled Activists and the Authoritarian State

Marcus Michaelsen

Globalizations, volume 13 (2016), pp. 1-17

"This paper shows how digital communication technologies enable new and influence established tactics of state repression beyond borders. Based on interviews with Iranian activists and journalists who were forced to leave the country after the controversial elections of 2009, I analyze mechanisms an ... more

Using Social Media for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation in the MENA Region: World Food Programme Case Study

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2016), 42 pp.

"This report presents an evaluation of the utility of social media for conducting research, monitoring and evaluation in the MENA region, using a case study approach. The Twitter based reaction to the reported cancellation/reduction of food provision by World Food Programme (WFP) for Syrian Refuges ... more

Gendering War and Peace Reporting: Some Insights – Some Missing Links

Berit von der Lippe, Rune Ottosen (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 278 pp.

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Block Her Entry, Keep Her Down and Push Her Out: Gender Discrimination and Women Journalists in the Arab World

Jad P. Melki, Sarah E. Mallat

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2016), pp. 57-79

"This study examines why female journalists in an Arab country continue to be marginalized. It hypothesized that a set of interrelated factors, pertaining to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and the lack of a legally and socially enabling environment, work together to systematically discour ... more

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L'impact du jihad virtuel

Romain Quivooij

Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 184 pp.

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Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
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Mohamed Zayani, Suzi Mirgani (eds.)

London: Hurst (2016), xi, 254 pp.

"Bullets and Bulletins takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the wake of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, with the research backed up by in-depth and rigorous case studies of the key countries of ... more

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Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change

Lena Jayyusi, Anne Sofie Roald (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), viii, 327 pp.

"Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world. This volume examines this topic with interdisciplinary contributions that range across media studies, anthroplogy, religious studies, and political science and explore both new a ... more

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Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing Communities

Jowan Mahmod

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 243 pp.

"The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its imagined community. Online activities and communications between people and across borders suggest that digital med ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Tunisia

Reporters Without Borders (2016)

"The Tunisian revolution has left a significant mark on the country’s media landscape, which diversified and played an important role in the transition process. Media diversity, however, does not guarantee the independence of information per se, especially if it remains to be dominated by politica ... more

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The War Correspondent

Greg McLaughlin

London: Pluto Press, 2nd ed. (2016), x, 267 pp.

"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents ... more

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Mediated Identities and New Journalism in the Arab World: Mapping the "Arab Spring"

Aziz Douai, Mohamed Ben Moussa (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 214 pp.

"This book looks into the role played by mediated communication, particularly new and social media, in shaping various forms of struggles around power, identity and religion at a time when the Arab world is going through an unprecedented period of turmoil and upheaval. The book provides unique and m ... more

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A Divine Cosmopolitism? Religion, Media and Imagination in a Socially Divided Cairo

Heba Elsayed

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 48-63

"With a focus on young Egyptian women, this article explores the different ways it becomes possible to reconcile a Muslim identity with a cosmopolitan openness towards the world. Informed primarily by transnational television, these women articulate a divine cosmopolitan imagination through which th ... more

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Building the Sacred Community Online: The Dual Use of the Internet by Chabad

Oren Golan, Nurit Stadler

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 71-88

"Religious communities have ongoing concerns about Internet use, as it intensifies the clash between tradition and modernity, a clash often found in traditionally inclined societies. Nevertheless, as websites become more useful and widely accessible, religious and communal stakeholders have continuo ... more

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Religion, Communications, and Judaism: The Case of Digital Chabad

Menahem Blondheim, Elihu Katz

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 89-95

"In their article on 'Building the Sacred Community Online', Oren Golan and Nurit Stadler zoom in on the latest attempts of Chabad, the extrovert Jewish Hasidic group, to harness the newest digital technologies to propagate and popularize its staunchly traditionalist reading of Jewish heritage. Also ... more

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Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity
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Noha Mellor, Khalil Hanna Rinnawi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 288 pp.

"The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture. This book exa ... more

Syrian Refugee Journalists Leaving ... To Tell the Tale

Mansour Omari

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2016), 16 pp.

"After the Syrian uprising morphed into an armed struggle, the Syrian government increasingly lost control over vast areas of territory. With the loss of State control, its imposed rule on media faded, enabling media to flourish in those areas. In territories it still controlled, its grip became eve ... more

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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien

Jörg Becker

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), ix, 404 pp.

"Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft ... more

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