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Attacks on the Press in 2010: A Worldwide Survey

Bill Sweeney (ed.)
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2011), 431 pp.
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Media, Spiritualities and Social Change

Stewart M. Hoover, Monica Emerich (eds.)
London; New York: Continuum (2011), ix, 262 pp.
"Bringing together scholarly perspectives from around the world and across disciplines, the authors explore how 'spiritualities' express themselves through and with media - from television to Internet, from fashion to art murals - as socially transforming voices and practices. The very fluidity of t ... more
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Vers un droit d’accès à l’information publique au Maroc: Etude comparative avec les normes et les meilleures pratiques dans le monde

Perrine Canavaggio, Alexandra Balafrej
Rabat: UNESCO, Bureau pour l’Algérie, le Maroc, la Mauritanie et la Tunisie (2011), 143 pp.
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Mapping Digital Media: Morocco

Bouziane Zaid, Mohamed Ibahrine
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 86 pp.
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Social Dynamics 2.0: Researching Change in Times of Media Convergence: Case Studies from the Middle East and Asia

Nadja-Christina Schneider, Bettina Gräf (eds.)
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2011), 166 pp.
"Mediated forms of communication increasingly influence the social relations and different spheres of life in the regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and in the Arab-speaking region. In order to understand the profound social and political changes that go hand in hand with these medialisation proc ... more
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Rapport final de la premiere phase de l'evaluation du developpement des medias en Tunisie: A partir des indicateurs de développement des médias de l'UNESCO

Sahbi Ben Nablia
Paris: UNESCO (2011), 59 pp.
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Essay: International Middle East Media Challenge Cultural Imperialism Thesis

Ralph D. Berenger
Global Media Journal - Arabian Edition, volume 1, issue 2 (2011), pp. 89-109
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New Questions, New Insights, New Approaches: Contributions to the Research Forum at the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth 2010

Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson, Catharina Bucht
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media; Nordicom (2011), 275 pp.
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Civil Movements: The Impact of Facebook and Twitter

Fadi Salem, Racha Mourtada
Arab Social Media Report (Dubai School of Government), volume 1, issue 2 (2011), 29 pp.
"The report analyzes data on Twitter and Facebook users in all 22 Arab countries, in addition to Iran, Israel and Turkey, highlighting the role they played in the civil movements that swept the region during that period. This is part of a larger research initiative focusing on social engagement thro ... more
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After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State

Marc Lynch
Perspectives on Politics, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 301-310
"The uprisings which swept across the Arab world beginning in December 2010 pose a serious challenge to many of the core findings of the political science literature focused on the durability of the authoritarian Middle Eastern state. The impact of social media on contentious politics represents one ... more
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Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries
Deep Insights

Noha Mellor, Muhammad Ayish, Nabil Dajani, Khalil Rinnawi
Cambridge, UK; Maldon, Mass.: Polity Press (2011), ix, 206 pp.
"This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting, cinema and new media. Through detailed discussions of the regulation and economics of these industries, t ... more
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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xix, 411 pp.
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Media Accountability Practices Online in Syria: An Indicator for Changing Perceptions of Journalism

Judith Pies, Philip Madanat
Tampere: University of Tampere, Journalism Research and Development Centre (2011), 24 pp.
"Media Accountability in Syria is more a question of re-defining the role of media in society than working on transparency practices or establishing self-regulation. This is due to strong state control and the mobilisation role mass media has been playing in Syria for decades. Before opening its med ... more
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Peace Journalism: How Media Reporting Affects Wars and Conflicts

Asa Carlman, Ida Svedlund (eds.)
Johanneshov: Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation (2011), 22 pp.
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Questioning the Al-Jazeera Effect: Analysis of Al-Qaeda’s Media Strategy and its Relationship with Al-Jazeera

Rasha El-Ibiary
Global Media and Communication, volume 7, issue 3 (2011), pp. 199-204
"Even Al-Jazeera, the first all-news channel widely considered independent, is primarily a tool in the Qatari government's hands to consolidate its existence, and fight its media wars with Saudi Arabia, provoking anger in the Arab and Western world. Al-Quaeda's relationship to Al-Jazeera, thus, cann ... more
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Systematic Monitoring as a Dissident Activist Strategy: Palestine Media Watch and U.S. News Media 2000-2004

Robert L. Handley
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 4, issue 3 (2011), pp. 209-228
"When news organizations began covering the Intifada in 2000, activists formed a media-monitoring group called Palestine Media Watch to lobby journalists to interpret the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within an international law framework. Activists minimized their dissidence in relation to journalis ... more
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The Scars of Oppression Run Deep: Assessing the Critical Requirements for Freedom of Expression in Tunisia’s Democratic Transition

Andrew Heslop et al.
IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG) (2011), 34 pp.
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Believe it or Not: Understanding the Credibility and Effectiveness of Radio Sawa in the UAE

Thomas B. Christie, Andrew M. Clark
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 4 (2011), pp. 359-371
"As part of an overall strategy to influence public opinion in the Muslim world, the US government implemented two new international broadcasting tools — Radio Sawa and Alhurra (a satellite television network). In the face of declining support of US government policies in the Muslim world, this st ... more
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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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New Media – Old Problems: Online Practices of Media Accountability in Lebanon

Judith Pies, Philip Madanat, Christine Elsaeßer
Tampere: University of Tampere, Journalism Research and Development Centre (2011), 23 pp.
"Lebanon’s media has been envied for its press freedom and high quality by many Arabs from the region for decades. After 15 years of civil war the media had quickly started to flourish again. Yet, internal and external observers have been concerned about the close links between the media and polit ... more