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The Arab World Online 2014: Trends in Internet Usage in the Arab Region

Fadi Salem, Racha Mourtada, Sara Alshaer

Dubai: Dubai School of Government (DSG), Governance and Innovation Program;bayt.com (2014), 21 pp.

"Our research indicates that today, there are more than 135 million individuals using the Internet in the 22 Arab countries. This is coupled with a mobile penetration rate of around 110 percent on a regional level; and more than 71 million active users of social networking technologies." (Page 1)

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Citizen Engagement and Public Services in the Arab World: The Potential of Social Media

Fadi Salem, Racha Mourtada, Sarah Al-Shaer

Arab Social Media Report (Dubai School of Government), volume 6 (2014), 51 pp.

"The survey administered for this issue measures public attitudes and perceptions towards the adoption of social media by Arab governments for the purpose of public service delivery. Respondents were asked about their usage of government social media pages, their perceptions of benefits and risks in ... more

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Assessment of Media Development in Palestine: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Mohammed Hussein Abu Arqoub et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2014), 114 pp.

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Elections Reporting in the Arab Region: Booklet Resulted from the ‘Exchange of Experiences Seminar’, Amman, November 2013

Paris: UNESCO (2014), 43 pp.

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Arab TV-Audiences: Negotiating Religion and Identity

Ehab Galal (ed.)

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2014), 150 pp.

"Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media ... more

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Flags and Barriers: Essays on Reporting from Israel and Palestine

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2014), 35 pp.

"In the following short essays, journalists from Palestine and Israel were asked to reflect on how local media covers the conflict and other news. These pieces have been organized here into four broad sections. The first chapter explores different ways in which the news is skewed, especially Israeli ... more

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Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2013

ictQATAR, Social Impact Department (2014), 30 slides

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From the Field: Building on Area Studies Expertise – The Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers (AREACORE)

Jassim M. Jaber, Carola Richter

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2014), 6 pp.

"This short article introduces the new Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers (AREACORE) as the manifestation of the necessity to strengthen area expertise in communication studies. The reasons for founding this association fit into the broader framework of de-westernizati ... more

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The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication

Lina Khatib, Dina Matar, Atef Alshaer

New York: Oxford University Press (2014), vii, 229 pp.

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Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in the Syria Crisis: A Journalists' Handbook

Nick Raistick, Margherita Maglietti

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2014), 40 pp.

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Drama as a Rhetorical Health Communication Strategy

Anat Gesser-Edelsburg

In: Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs

Do Kyun Kim; Arvind Singhal; Gary L. Kreps (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 134-150

"This chapter will present the rhetorical features that comprise the dramatic mechanism, and illustrate them through case studies of Israeli plays that raise diverse sensitive health subjects in Israel's multicultural society, such as violence against women, obesity, novice teen drivers, and illegal ... more

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Social Media and the Politics of Reportage: The 'Arab Spring'

Saba Bebawi, Diana Bossio (eds.)

Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xii, 141 pp.

"Social Media and the Politics of Reportage explores the journalistic challenges, issues and opportunities that have risen as a result of social media increasingly being used as a form of crisis reporting within the field of global journalism, with a focus on the protests during the 'Arab Spring'." ... more

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The Transparency of Media Ownership in the European Union and Neighbouring States

Rachael Craufurd Smith, Yolande Stolte

Access Info Europe;Open Society Program on Independent Journalism (2014), 28 pp.

"Despite the importance of media ownership transparency for both the individual and the state, only two of the surveyed countries—Italy and Romania—address media transparency directly in their constitutions but in both cases the focus is on transparency of fi nancial sources not ownership. In th ... more

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The Future of News Media in the Arab World

Khalid Al-Jaber, Mokhtar Elareshi

Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (2014), 217 pp.

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Inhabiting Two Worlds: The Role of News in the Lives of Jewish and Arab Children and Youth in Israel

Dafna Lemish, Rotem Pick-Alony

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 2 (2014), pp. 128-151

"This study investigated the role of the news media in the lives of Jewish and Arab children in Israel. A survey of 1657 children (ages 8–18), including analysis of open-ended questions, reveals that Jewish and Arab children in Israel live in two different worlds of news. They are exposed to diffe ... more

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Syria's Socially Mediated Civil War

Marc Lynch, Deen Freelon, Sean Aday

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2014), 33 pp.

"Analysis of the unprecedented use of social media on Syria points to important findings on the role of new media in conflict zones. In particular, social media create a dangerous illusion of unmediated information flows. Key curation hubs within networks may now play a gatekeeping role as powerful ... more

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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, Rachel Daniell (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2014), viii, 249 pp.

"This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese A ... more

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Medien, Migration, Partizipation: Eine Studie am Beispiel iranischer Fernsehproduktion im Offenen Kanal

Christine Horz

Bielefeld: transcript (2014), 481 pp.

"Die Rolle der Medien für die Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten wird in kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Studien oft thematisiert. Doch welche Möglichkeiten haben sie in Deutschland überhaupt, aktiv an der Medienproduktion zu partizipieren? Christine Horz untersucht am Beispiel deutsch-i ... more

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Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales

Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney (eds.)

Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2014), viii, 376 pp.

"How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book ... more

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Media and Telecommunications Landscape in the West Bank and Gaza

Internews (2014), 3 pp.