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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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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more
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The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
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Lawrence Pintak
London; New York: Tauris (2011), xii, 287 pp.
"Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in ... more
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The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and the Passing of Traditional Society

Hemant Shah
Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2011), viii, 218 pp.
"Daniel Lerner's 1958 book 'The Passing of Traditional Society' was central in shaping Cold War-era ideas about the use of mass media and culture to promote social and economic progress in postcolonial nations. Based on a study of the effectiveness of propaganda in the Middle East, Lerner's book cla ... more
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Channels of Resistance in Lebanon: Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media

Zahera Harb
London; New York: Tauris (2011), 279 pp.
"The South Lebanon conflict saw two decades of sustained resistance by the Lebanese to the Israeli occupation. The Lebanese media’s role in achieving liberation over this period is significant, through campaigns conducted to unify the Lebanese people against their foreign occupier and in support o ... more
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Freedom of Expression in Yemen: A Critical State of Affairs

Rodrigo Bonilla, Andrew Heslop (eds.)
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); International Partnership for Yemen (2011), 30 pp.
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Assessment of Media Development in Egypt: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Toby Mendel
Cairo: UNESCO (2011), 36 pp.
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Facebook Usage: Factors and Analysis

Fadi Salem, Racha Mourtada
Arab Social Media Report (Dubai School of Government), volume 1, issue 1 (2011), 20 pp.
"The Arab Social Media Report (ASMR), produced by the Dubai School of Government’s Governance and Innovation Program, is the first in a quarterly series that will highlight and analyze usage trends of online social networking across the Arab region. In its inaugural edition, the report analyzes da ... more
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Les médias arabes: Confluences médiatiques et dynamique sociale

Tourya Guaaybess
Paris: CNRS (2011), 231 pp.
"La libéralisation spectaculaire de l’espace médiatique arabe n’en finit pas de surprendre. Comment comprendre cette brutale explosion de créativité, ce foisonnement d’initiatives et d’énergie ? En quelques mois, ces sociétés auraient fait l’apprentissage de la liberté d’expressi ... more
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Oase der Freiheit: Sechs Journalistinnen werden zur Stimme der Frauen im Jemen

Jennifer Steil
München: Blanvalet (2011), 510 pp.
"Die junge amerikanische Journalistin Jennifer Steil wagt einen mutigen Schritt und wird für ein Jahr Redakteurin des „Jemen Observer”. Wie erwartet findet sie Fremdheit, Engstirnigkeit, auch Hass. Als Frau gelingt ihr aber auch ein Blick in jene Welt, die offiziellen Berichterstattern verborge ... more
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Media Migration and Public Opinion: Myths, Prejudices and the Challenge of Attaining Mutual Understanding between Europe and North Africa

Ivan Ureta (ed.)
Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2011), 290 pp.
"Sensitive issues like migration and human mobility provoke paradigms and prejudices in public opinion. Media, Migration and Public Opinion is a collective effort of academic criticism to over-come these myths.The main motive of this book is linked to the fact that migration, media and public opinio ... more
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Medien-Macht und Religionen: Herausforderung für eine interkulturelle Bildung

Manfred L. Pirner, Johannes Lähnemann, Werner Haußmann (eds.)
Berlin: EB-Verlag (2011), 362 pp.
"Medien und Religionen: ein brisantes Thema, das bisher nur unzureichend bearbeitet ist. Dabei ist spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001, seit den heftigen Auseinandersetzungen um die Mohammed-Karikaturen und dem Streit um das provokante Buch von Thilo Sarrazin deutlich, wie sehr Bilder und Videos ... more
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People's Power: The Arab World in Revolt

Perspectives (Heinrich Böll Stiftung), issue 2 (2011), 262 pp.
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Femmes et médias au Maghreb: Guide à l’intention de la société civile pour améliorer la représentation des femmes dans les médias au Maghreb

Sahbi Ben Nablia
Rabat: UNESCO (2011), 95 pp.
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The Use of the Internet by Islamic Social Movements in Collective Action: The Case of 'Justice and Charity'

Mohamed Ben Moussa
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 63-91
"The article addresses the use of the internet by Islamic social movement organizations (SMOs), focusing on the case of Justice and Charity (JC), the biggest opposition political group in Morocco. It examines the extent to which the SMO exploits the potential of the medium in collective action, and ... more
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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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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
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Elizabeth McCall
New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy (2011), ix, 127 pp.
This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides ... more
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Teaching Journalism in Oman: Reflections After the Arab Spring

Susan O'Rourke
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 17, issue 2 (2011), pp. 109-129
"Between 2005–2011, the New Zealand Tertiary Education Consortium (NZTEC) was contracted to the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) in the Sultanate of Oman. This long-term, long-distance off-shore education contract committed four New Zealand universities to providing degrees in four discipline a ... more
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Women Candidates and Arab Media: Challlenging Conservatism in Bahraini Politics

May Al Otaibi, Amos Owen Thomas
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 135-158
"Women have yet to enter to Bahrain’s parliament despite being permitted to run for some years. With its king promoting social and economic change, the media has portrayed positive images of Arab women as professionals against a backdrop of religious conservatism. The communications strategy adopt ... more
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Arabic Books

Nabil Dajani
In: Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries
Noha Mellor, Muhammad Ayish, Nabil Dajani, Khalil Rinnawi (eds.)
Cambridge; Maldon, Mass.: Polity Press (2011), pp. 29-44