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Media Monitoring of the Transitional Phase in Egypt: The Supreme Council of Armed Forces, Justice System, Parties and Elections, July 2011 - January 2012

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information;Egyptian Organization for Human Rights;International Media Support (IMS);Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring (2012), 132 pp.

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Mapping Digital Media: Lebanon

Jad Melki, Yasmine Dabbous, Khaled Nasser, Sarah Mallat

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 99 pp.

"Thanks to digital media, Lebanon’s residents have access to a variety of news platforms, from 24-hour cable channels to internet sites and text message services. Despite easy access to Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, CNN, BBC, and others through subscriptions to pirated cable bundles or satellite receive ... more

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Syria’s Cyber Wars

Amjad Baiazy

Open Society Foundation (2012), 25 pp.

"The government in Syria came to differentiate between political dissent and the civil society activism in which the new generation plays a vital role thanks to the use of social media. Unable to control the burst of online activity, Damascus was forced to focus on monitoring key dissenters and huma ... more

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Unveiling the Revolutionaries: Cyberactivism and the Role of Women in the Arab Uprisings

Courtney C. Radsch

Houston, Tex.: Rice University, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (2012), 44 pp.

"This is the first scholarly analysis of how young women used social media and cyberactivism to help shape the “Arab Spring” and its aftermath. It argues that women's engagement with social media has coincided with a shift in the political landscape of the Middle East, and it is unlikely that th ... more

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The Media and the Making of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Amr Osman, Marwa Abdel Samei

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 19 pp.

"While views may differ on the factors that made the 2011 Egyptian revolution possible, the role of mass media will remain undisputable. The Internet-based social networks caught the Mubarak regime by surprise, and the popular disillusionment with the‘national’ media led the public to turn to pr ... more

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Altering Courses in Unknown Waters: Interaction Between Traditional and New Media During the First Months of the Syrian Uprising

Lorenzo Trombetta

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 13 pp.

"This paper aims at investigating the relationship between traditional and social media during the first six months of the Syrian uprising. Thanks to direct testimony made available to the author by various cyber activists inside and outside Syria and through constant monitoring of the official prop ... more

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The Arab Spring is a Latin American Winter: TeleSUR’s “ideological Approach” and the Breakaway from the Al-Jazeera Network

Massimo Di Ricco

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 21 pp.

"The Arab Spring represents a breaking point in the cooperation between the pan-Latin American satellite television TeleSUR and Al-Jazeera. Even if in February TeleSUR firmly condemned the closure by Egyptian authorities of the Al-Jazeera Cairo offices, NATO military intervention in Libya and the be ... more

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The Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Political Protest: Evidence from the Tunisian Revolution

Anita Breuer

Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (2012), 31 pp.

"Drawing on evidence from the popular protests in Tunisia between December 2010 and January 2011, expert interviews with Tunisian bloggers, and a web survey conducted among Tunisian Facebook users, this paper argues that social media (1) allowed a “digital elite” to form personal networks and ci ... more

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Public Service Broadcasting in the MENA Region: Potential for Reform

Charles Autheman, Olga Del Río, Latifa Tayah-Gueneau (coord.)

Paris; Bellaterra: Panos Paris;Observatori Mediterrani de la Comunicació (OMEC) (2012), 263 pp.

"The present study is a review of the mission of public service broadcasting in eight countries of the Middle East and North Africa. It examines the books of specifications and the legal frameworks that regulate public broadcasting as well as it looks into the means made available to implement it. F ... more

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Yemen: Media and Telecom Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 94 pp.

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Finding a Way: How Iranians Reach for News and Information. The Iran Media Program’s 2011-2012 Report on Media Consumption in Iran

Magdalena Wojcieszak, Briar Smith, Mahmood Enayat

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2012), 46 pp.

"We find that among both the general population and the technologically savvy youth, television – and especially the state-controlled broadcaster – was among the most often used news sources (with the Internet being the most important news outlet for the youth). This finding is surprising given ... more

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Discovering the Zoroastrian E-Diaspora

David Knaute

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 17 pp.

"Zoroastrians are an ancient ethnic-religious community that goes back to the prophet Zarathustra. Today they number some 120,000 people, based in India/Pakistan and Iran; diaspora communities are settled in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia. On the Indian sub-continent, where Zoroastrian ... more

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The Tunisian diaspora: Between “digital riots” and web activism

Teresa Graziano

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 21 pp.

"This article deals with the increasing connections among the Tunisian diaspora and its homeland provided by a widespread use of the social Web. The main aim is to evaluate to what extent the Tunisian diaspora has contributed to a wider diffusion of cyberactivism concerning legitimate claims for dem ... more

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Egyptian E-Diaspora: Migrant Websites Without a Network?

Marta Severo, Eleonora Zuolo

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 19 pp.

"This article investigates the phenomenon of the Egyptian diaspora through an innovative approach based on the analysis of digital activity and the presence of Egyptian connected migrants. Following the methodology of the e-Diasporas project, we found a scarcely connected network of websites, with a ... more

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Community Sector Dynamics and the Lebanese Diaspora: Internal Fragmentation and Transnationalism on the Web

Houda Asal

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 19 pp.

"The author analyzes the presence of Lebanese organizations on the Web and shows the transnational links between associations from different countries, starting from a case study including France and Canada. The nature and density of these connections are partly attributable to the importance of lin ... more

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The Palestinian Diaspora on the Web: Between De-Territorialization and Re-Territorialization

Anat Ben-David

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 36 pp.

"The article analyzes web-based networks of Palestinian communities in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Australia, United States, Canada, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The findings show a thematic and demographic shift from organizations of Palestinian communities abroad to a transnational so ... more

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Middle East Media Research: Problems and Approaches

Dina Matar, Ehab Bessaiso

In: The Handbook of Global Media Research

Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 195-211

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War Journalism and the Israel/Palestine Zero-Index Shift Hypothesis

Sidin Ahmad Ishak, Yakubu Ozohu-Suleiman

Global Media Journal - Mediterranean Edition, volume 8, issue 1 (2012), pp. 21-30

"This article examines how war journalism has shaped knowledge production on media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how its discontent underscores the need for a shift to peace correspondence in the conflict. The article essentially relies on existing empirical literature on media c ... more

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Censorship in Lebanon: Law and Practice

Nizar Saghieh, Rana Saghieh, Nayla Geagea

Beirut: Marsad al-Raqaba / The Censorship Observatory;Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2012), 149 pp.

"This study aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of censorship in Lebanon which will hopefully allow the many local artistic and cultural actors the opportunity to lobby for the most appropriate legislative amendments to the current censorship regulations which are currently not conducive to t ... more

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Safety on the Line: Exposing the Myth of Mobile Communication Security

Cormac Callanan, Hein Dries-Ziekenheiner

Washington, DC: Freedom House;Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) (2012), 175 pp.

"This report evaluates the risks and vulnerabilities of mobile phone services and apps in 12 specified countries: the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, the People’s Republic of China, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Libya, the Sultanate of Oman, the Kingdom ... more