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Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media

Carolyn M. Byerly

Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2011), 393 pp.

"There is abundant evidence of underrepresentation of women as subjects of coverage, but until now there were no reliable, comprehensive data on which to make a clear determination about where women currently fit into the news-making operation or in the decision-making or ownership structure of thei ... more

Freedoms in Iraq: An Increasingly Repressive Legal Net

Toby Mendel

Washington, DC: IREX;Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) (2011), 41 pp.

"This report reviews five pieces of legislation affecting the freedoms of assembly and expression that have been introduced in recent years in Iraq. Of these, only one, the Journalists Rights Law (Journalist Law), has actually been passed into law, in August 2011. The other four – the draft Commis ... more

Building New Media Institutions in the MENA Region: Summary Report

Cynthia Wong

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS);Internews (2011), 19 pp.

A New Frontier, an Old Landscape: A Report for the Ford Foundation About the Impact of Digital Communications on Media and Communications, and on Human Rights

Andrew Puddephatt, Dixie Hawtin, Laura Zommer, João Brant, Lina Attalah, Nagla Rizk, Ramnath Bhat, Merlyna Lim, Grace Githaiga, Rebecca Zausmer

London: Global Partners (2011), 270 pp.

Examines the impact that the rise of digital communications is having on the media, and on human rights activism. The report goes on to explore the main policy issues which must be addressed at the national and international levels to shape an enabling environment. The report combines global level a ... more

The Transformative Egyptian Media Landscape: Changes, Challenges and Comparative Perspectives

Sahar Khamis

International Journal of Communication, volume 5 (2011), pp. 1159-1177

"This article analyzes the transformative Egyptian media landscape that shaped and reflected the equally transformative political landscape that led to Egypt’s historical revolution. It provides an overview of Egyptian media and discusses how that eclectic scene exhibited many paradoxes. It analyz ... more

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Can it Tweet its Way to Democracy? The Promise of Participatory Media in Africa

Abiye Megenta

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 103 pp.

Offers a policy-focused overview of the state of online political participatory media in Tunisia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda.

Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan

Amman: IREX (2011), 79 pp.

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The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies in the Middle East and North Africa

Flavia Flavia Tsang, Ohid Yaqub, Desirée van Welsum, Tony G. Thompson-Starkey, Joanna Chataway

Cambridge, UK: RAND Corporation (2011), ix, 70 pp.

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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon (eds.)

Leiden; Boston: Brill (2011), xii, 422 pp.

"As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and ho ... more

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Mediativer Journalismus: Konstruktive Konfliktbearbeitung in der qualitätsjournalistischen Auslandsberichterstattung

Irmgard Wetzstein

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2011), 344 pp.

"Irmgard Wetzstein untersucht die Möglichkeiten konstruktiver Konfliktbearbeitung in der qualitätsjournalistischen Auslandsberichterstattung. Sie grenzt diese zur friedensjournalistischen Idee ab, wobei systemische bzw. konstruktivistische Überlegungen im Vordergrund stehen. Die Kriegs-, Krisen- ... more

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Contemporary Arab Broadcast Media

El Mustapha Lahlali

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2011), vii, 178 pp.

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News Use and Political Socialization Among Young Jordanians

Justin D. Martin

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 8 (2011), pp. 706-731

"This study examined the relationship between young Jordanians' (N = 321) news use and their feelings toward the Jordanian and US governments. Consumption of traditional news delivery formats (such as print newspapers, radio broadcasts and interpersonal sources) was measured, as was reliance on new ... more

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Atlas de l'Afrique

Danielle Ben Yahmed (ed.)

Paris: Éditions du Jaguar, 4. éd. (2011), 255 pp.

"L'Afrique dans son ensemble : 28 chapitres présentant le continent par rapport au reste du monde. Tous les aspects de la géographie physique : relief, hydrographie, climat, végétation, et aussi l'histoire, les religions, les langues. L'Afrique par régions. Les cartes de localisation avec visua ... more

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Piratages audiovisuels: Les voies souterraines de la mondialisation culturelle

Tristan Mattelart (ed.)

Brussels: De Boeck (2011), 304 pp.

Souvent considéré comme une activité des plus nuisibles, le piratage des contenus audiovisuels n’en constitue pas moins, depuis des décennies, pour de nombreuses populations aux quatre coins du monde, un moyen majeur d’accéder aux produits des industries culturelles. Nourri d’enquêtes de ... more

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Anti-American Sentiment as a Media Effect? Arab Media, Political Identity, and Public Opinion in the Middle East

Erik C. Nisbet, Teresa A. Myers

Communication Research, volume 38, issue 5 (2011), pp. 684-709

"Many have attributed anti-American sentiment within Arab countries to a highly negative information environment propagated by transnational Arab satellite TV news channels such as Al-Jazeera. However, theoretical models and empirical evidence evaluating the linkages between media exposure and opini ... more

People's Power: The Arab World in Revolt

Perspectives (Heinrich Böll Stiftung), issue 2 (2011), 262 pp.

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Medienstrategien ägyptischer Islamisten im Kontext von Demokratisierung

Carola Richter

Berlin: Frank & Timme (2011), 349 pp.

"Die Umbrüche in Ägypten 2011 haben gezeigt, dass Medien eine wesentliche Rolle für die Mobilisierung politischer Partizipation spielen. Die Muslimbruderschaft, einer der wichtigsten gesellschaftlichen Akteure Ägyptens, hat seit 2002 gezielt auf Internetmedien gesetzt, um das Regime Mubaraks her ... more

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