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Arab Media Moguls

Donatella Della Ratta, Naomi Sakr, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.)
London; New York: Tauris (2015), xiii, 233 pp.
"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r ... more
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Les tribulations de l'Instance pour la Réforme de l'Information et de la Communication (INRIC) ou la difficile entrprise de transformer les médias en Tunisie

Larbi Chouikha
In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 129-143
"A travers l'expérience de l'INRIC (Instance pour la Réforme de l'Information et de la Communication) en Tunisie, ce texte montre bien à la fois les défis et les difficultés auxquels sont confrontées les instances chargées de l'organisation du secteur des médias sur le continent africain. Co ... more
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Medienfreiheit in Ägypten: Zum journalistischen Arbeiten in Ägypten nach der Arabischen Revolution

Judith Jäger, Christoph Resch (eds.)
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2015), 217 pp.
"Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der beunruhigenden Lage der ägyptischen Medien. Er beschreibt Gleichschaltung und Zensur, er berichtet von Einschüchterungsversuchen der al-Sisi-, aber auch der Mursi-Regierung gegenüber in- und ausländischen Pressevertretern. Journalistinnen und Journalisten wu ... more
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Media, Revolution and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising

Abdalla F. Hassan
London: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 276 pp.
"The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country's democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president's ... more
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Handbuch der Medienethnographie

Cora Bender, Martin Zillinger (eds.)
Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.
"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo ... more
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Medien und Minderheiten in arabischen Ländern

Sebastian Elässer, Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Kristin Pfeifer
In: Arabische Medien
Carola Richter, Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)
Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), pp. 99-116
"Anhand von drei Beispielen, den Kopten in Ägypten, den Imazighen in Marokko und den Kurden im Irak dokumentieren die Autoren dieses Kapitels exemplarisch, wie unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsgruppen versuchen, durch eigene Medien ihre kulturelle, gesellschaftliche und politische Identität zu wahren ... more
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Im Gegenlicht: Gesellschaftskritik im Spielfilm

iz3w, issue 384 (2015), pp. 17-40
"Gerade in Ländern des Globalen Südens gibt es eine beeindruckende Vielfalt kritischer Spielfilme aller Genres, vom Roadmovie bis zur Groteske. Mal sind sie explizit politisch, mal eher angedeutet und metaphorisch, um die Zensur zu umgehen oder um eindimensionale Interpretationen zu unterlaufen. I ... more
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Alltag und Medien: Mediatisierung in der arabischen Welt

Ines Braune
In: Arabische Medien
Carola Richter, Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)
Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), pp. 75-86
"Beide Beispiele, das der Frauen im ländlichen Ägypten und das der jungen Menschen in Marokko zeigen, inwiefern sozialer und medialer Wandel im Alltag neue Medienpraktiken und damit neue Handlungsoptionen eröffnen, die bestehende Machtmuster wie patriarchale Dominanz und geografische Marginalisie ... more
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Communication publique et territoriale au Maghreb: Enjeux d'une valorisation et défis pour les acteurs

Vincent Meyer, Aïssa Merah (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 228 pp.
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Political Parody and Satire as Subversive Speech in the Global Digital Sphere

Sangeet Kumar, Kirk Combe (eds.)
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 3 (2015), pp. 211-311
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Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition?

Edward Webb
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), x, 112 pp.
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
Deep Insights

Péter Molnár (ed.)
Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more
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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends

Peggy Valcke, Miklós Sükösd, Robert G. Picard (eds.)
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.
"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur ... more
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Filtering revolution: Reporting bias in international newspaper coverage of the Libyan civil war

Matthew A. Baum, Yuri M. Zhukov
Journal of Peace Research, volume 52, issue 3 (2015), pp. 384-400
"Reporting bias – the media's tendency to systematically underreport or overreport certain types of events – is a persistent problem for participants and observers of armed conflict. We argue that the nature of reporting bias depends on how news organizations navigate the political context in wh ... more
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Bravery or Bravado? The Protection of News Providers in Armed Conflict

Nina Burri
Brill (2015), xviii, 450 pp.
"During the last decade, the image of war correspondents in the news has shifted dramatically. Reports are no longer full of cheerleading stories of embedded journalists. Instead, stories of war reporters being attacked, kidnapped or injured prevail. Sadly, the former heroic witnesses to war have be ... more
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Online Media Overview: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia

Laurent Giacobino
Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2015), 27 pp.
"This document is an abridged version of a wide-ranging survey conducted between July 2014 and January 2015, which attempts to provide an overall view of the complex, ever-changing and fluid landscape of the online media in the Arab world. It is based on over 45 in-depth interviews, 130 applications ... more
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Global Support for Principle of Free Expression, But Opposition to Some Forms of Speech

Richard Wike, Katie Simmons
Pew Research Center (2015), 58 pp.
"Although many observers have documented a global decline in democratic rights in recent years, people around the world nonetheless embrace fundamental democratic values, including free expression. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities in nearly all 38 nations polled say it is at le ... more
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt

Sherif Mansour
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 16 pp.
"Egypt’s plummeting press freedom is in part a result of the many ways in which the state can put pressure on independent media under Egyptian law. While the January 2014 constitution contains clear protections for the media (including, under Article 71, bans on censorship and surveillance), many ... more
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Standards of Journalism Education: An International Comparative Study in the Context of Media and Development

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)
Leipzig; Bonn: Vistas; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2015), 265 pp.
"Training and educating of journalists around the world with the aim of enhancing free and independent media has been a major field of media development cooperation for decades. Nevertheless, the state of scientific research in this area remains limited, specifically with regard to the status quo of ... more
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Who Makes the News? Global Media Monitoring Project 2015

Sarah Macharia (ed.)
London; Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2015), v, 152 pp.
"Although in the decade 1995 to 2005 there was a slow but steady increase in women’s visibility in the news, the decade 2005 to 2015 has been one of stagnation. At 24% of the total, there has been no change in women’s share of news-making roles in the traditional media (newspapers, radio, televi ... more