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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien
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
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Media Consumption in Iraq
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2016), 52 slides
"Key takeaways: Internet use is increasing rapidly, but not replacing TV; Increases vary significantly by province; Internet trends will change as Iraqi government and ISIS vie for control of media." (Slide 32)
"Kurds live in a different media environment and rely primarily on Kurdish language TV; D
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Media Consumption in Iraq
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2016), 2 pp.
"As in much of the Arab World, satellite TV is almost ubiquitous in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, present in 97.9% of households (versus 31.5% with radio and 60.1% with the internet). Ethnic Kurds and those with a college degree are much more likely than other Iraqis to have internet access at home. Mor
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Investigative Journalism in the Arab World: Issues and Challenges
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 175 pp.
"This is the first book that looks into the state and role of investigate journalism in the Arab world. It explores the vital role the media could potentially play in informing and empowering society, to assist in opening up the communicative space in a region where this has previously been taboo."
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Social Media in Southeast Turkey: Love, Kinship and Politics
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xi, 194 pp.
"This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Cos
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Journalists in Qatar
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 4 pp.
"With regards to professional role orientations, journalists in Qatar found it most important to influence public opinion, to advocate for social change, to support national development, to report things as they naturally are, to be a detached observer and to support government policy. About half of
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The War Correspondent
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
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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.
"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as
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Social Media in the Arab World: Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States
London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp.
"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp
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Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing Communities
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
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Wie Staaten schwach werden: Fragilität von Staaten als internationale Herausforderung
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 264 pp.
"Der Zerfall von Staaten ist eine wesentliche Bedrohung für die Bürger der betroffenen Länder und für die internationale Sicherheit. Wenn ein Staat seine essenziellen Aufgaben nicht mehr erfüllen kann, versuchen andere Akteure diese Lücken zu schließen. Aber wie kommt es dazu, dass Nationalst
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"Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left b
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Palestinian Youth Media and the Pedagogies of Estrangement
Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 193 pp.
"Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic space
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The Other Air Force: U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11
New Brunswick, New Jersey, London: Rutgers University Press (2016), ix, 216 pp.
"As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern
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Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age
Deep Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 199 pp.
Building the Sacred Community Online: The Dual Use of the Internet by Chabad
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
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Ratings, the State and Globalization: The Politics of Television Audience Measurement in Israel
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 2 (2016), pp. 159-174
"This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring television audiences, the 'People Meter' (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neoliberal state, which brought about a new relation
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The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, paperback ed. (2016), xxxi, 477 pp.
"Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study.
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