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New Media and Islam

M. Alwi Dahlan
In: Asian Communication Handbook
Sundeep R. Muppidi (eds.)
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC); Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2012), pp. 35-46
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New Projects Submitted to the IPDC. Part 4: Arab Region and Europe

International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 85 pp.
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Digital Media in the Arab World: One Year After the Revolutions

Jeffrey Ghannam
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 31 pp.
"Following the revolutions, the battle for the Arab blogosphere has turned from being a competition over accessing the Internet and circumventing government controls to a cyberwar for the predominant narrative through Facebook, Twitter, and traditional media [...] Social media is reinvigorating trad ... more
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Blogistan: Politik und Internet im Iran

Annabelle Sreberny, Gholam Khiabany
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); (2012), 285 pp.
"Die Protestwelle nach der umstrittenen Präsidentschaftswahl im Iran vom Juni 2009 lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf die lebendige Internetkultur der Islamischen Republik. Das Internet, heißt es, befördert den gesellschaftlichen Wandel in Ländern wie dem Iran, doch inwiefern ... more
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Using Social Media to Gauge Iranian Public Opinion and Mood After the 2009 Election

Sara Beth Elson, Douglas Yeung, Parisa Roshan, S. R. Bohandy, Alireza Nader
Santa Monica, Calif. et al.: RAND Corporation (2012), xxi, 86 pp.
"This report presents an analysis of Iranian public opinion and mood as expressed over Twitter in the nine months following the election. The research represents an initial case study of a novel methodology developed to analyze politically oriented social media content. In addition to policy-relevan ... more
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The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Rafael Obregón, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2012), xx, 658 pp.
"The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. It brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wid ... more
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 1: Forms

Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2012), xi, 208 pp.
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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 World News Prism: Challenges of Digital Communication

William A. Hachten, James F. Scotton
Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 8th ed. (2012), xi, 249 pp.
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Political Activism 2.0: Comparing the Role of Social Media in Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” and Iran’s “Twitter Uprising”

Mohammed El-Nawawy, Sahar Khamis
CyberOrient, volume 6, issue 1 (2012), pp. 8-33
"Social media, particularly blogging, Facebook and Twitter, have played a key role in instigating, accelerating and even organizing some of the uprisings and revolutions that have been taking place all over the Middle East. This role has been effective in galvanizing the youth and empowering them in ... more
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Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media: Framework of Indicators to Gauge Sensitivity in Media Operations and Content

Paris: UNESCO (2012), 183 pp.
"The gender-sensitive indicators for media (GSIM) is a non-prescriptive set of indicators, designed particularly for media of all forms. However it bears much relevance and usefulness to citizens' media groups advocating for gender equality, other non-governmental organizations, media associations, ... more
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Christian Broadcasting: A Critical Assessment

Sameh Fawzy
In: Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
Khaled Hroub (ed.)
New York: Columbia University Press (2012), pp. 195-217
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Deciphering User-Generated Content in Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study

Juliette Harkin, Kevin Anderson, Libby Morgan, Briar Smith
Washington, DC: Internews; Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), 40 pp.
"The objective of this study is to look at how two prominent Arab-language news organisations, BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), have used social media and user-generated content — photos, videos and comments — to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria. Due to the unique pressures in co ... more
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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2007-2009. Part 1: Africa, Arab Region, Europe

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2012), 161 pp.
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The Media Landscape in 28 Countries: Results from a UIS Pilot Survey

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012), 84 pp.
"This paper presents the results of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) pilot survey on media statistics conducted in 28 countries in 2011. The survey instruments were designed to provide an initial set of quantitative indicators identified by UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators project. G ... more
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Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East

Khaled Hroub (ed.)
New York: Columbia University Press (2012), xvi, 348 pp.
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Middle East Conflict 2.0: Israelis and Palestinians Between Virtual Conflict and Online Peace

Judith Daemberg
KAS International Reports, issue 11 (2012), pp. 6-20
"The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is increasingly being played out in parallel on the internet. Recently, a great deal of media attention has been devoted to a series of spectacular hacker attacks that caused dozens of Israeli and Palestinian websites to crash, including thos ... more
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Netzwerk-Journalismus: Zur veränderten Vermittlerrolle von Journalisten am Beispiel einer Case Study zu Twitter und den Unruhen in Iran

Thomas Plotkowiak, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Jana Ebermann, Miriam Meckel, Matthes Fleck
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 60, issue 1 (2012), pp. 102-124
"Partizipative Internettechnologien sorgen für ein verändertes Aufgabenprofil und Rollenbild von Journalisten. Besonders in Krisensituationen oder bei politischen Konflikten können Informationen, die über die sozialen Plattformen des Webs verbreitet werden, wichtige Quellen journalistischer Arbe ... more
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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.
"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more
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Walking a Tightrope: News Media and Freedom of Expression in the Middle East
Deep Insights

Layla Al-Zubaidi, Susanne Fischer, Magda Abu-Fadil
Beirut: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2nd revised ed. (2012), 161 pp.
"This report reviews the situation in which media operate in the Middle East, specifically in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and also including a short section on Tunisia [...] Part 1 explores the historical development of the media in the region, outlines their structural environment, and ... more