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Iraqi Women Journalists’ Challenges and Predicaments

Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 3, issue 3 (2010), pp. 223-236

"This article aims at reviewing the condition of Iraqi female journalists specifically after the US invasion in 2003 by using different Arabic and English sources. The study argues that female Iraqi journalists enjoyed new freedoms of speech and got new opportunities to improve professionally after ... more

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The Iraq War: A Heavy Death Toll for the Media 2003-2010

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2010), 13 pp.

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Partikularismus statt Pluralismus: Identitätspolitik und Presse im Irak

Andrea Fischer-Tahir

Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, issue 24 (2010), pp. 34-40

"Am 7. März 2010 waren die Irakerinnen und Iraker aufgerufen, ein neues Parlament zu wählen. Einen klaren Sieg gab es für keine der angetretenen Listen. Aus Enttäuschung behauptete dann auch fast jede der ins Parlament gewählten Parteien, betrogen worden zu sein und erhob gegen die anderen Vorw ... more

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Confusion, Contradiction and Irony: The Iraqi Media in 2010

Deborah Amos

Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy (2010), 45 pp.

"After the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, Iraq's news media environment transformed almost overnight from the tightly controlled propaganda arm of Saddam Hussein's rule into one of the most diverse and unrestricted news environments in the Middle East. Built in an atmosphere of chaos and conflict ... more

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Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics

Sean Aday, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, John Kelly, Ethan Zuckerman

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 31 pp.

"The impact of new media can be better understood through a framework that considers five levels of analysis: individual transformation, intergroup relations, collective action, regime policies, and external attention. New media have the potential to change how citizens think or act, mitigate or exa ... more

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Preventing Media Incitement to Violence in Iraq

Theo Dolan

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 5 pp.

"The monitoring of Iraqi media reveals that inflammatory coverage does not necessarily consist of a direct call to violence, but instead takes the form of indirect or coded terminology that still has dangerous potential to foment conflict. Current regulatory and self-regulatory efforts designed to p ... more

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Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright

Chris Armstrong, Jeremy de Beer, Dick Kawooya, Achal Prabhala, Tobias Schonwetter (eds.)

Claremont: UCT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvii, 366 pp.

"Copyright laws and policies cover many controversial issues that are linked to different disciplines, in science, culture, technology, economics, law and other fields. The concepts and issues in the field are also approached from different perspectives and with different political and economic agen ... more

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Minutes from the International Partnership Meeting

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2010), 40 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the discussions and conclusions from the International Partnership Meeting in New York on 26 January 2010 organised by the Open Society Institute and International Media Support. At the meeting, 30 media support and press freedom organisations from across the wor ... more

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World Day Against Cyber Censorship: 12 March 2010. Enemies of the Internet, Countries Under Surveillance

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2010), 62 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2010: Focus on ICTs and Environmental Sustainability

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2010), 244 pp.

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Between Freedom and Abuses: The Media Paradox in Iraqi Kurdistan

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2010), 21 pp.

"The aim of this report is to understand the paradox of media freedom in Kurdistan. It first addresses the history of Iraqi Kurdistan’s media. A better understanding of the way these outlets emerged over time is essential in order to grasp the complexity of their current challenges. Originally con ... more

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International Film Guide 2010: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema

Ian Haydn Smith (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press, 46th ed. (2010), 460 pp.

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Iraq Media Study: National Audience Analysis

Washington, DC: IREX;D3 Systems (2010), 43 pp.

The IREX Audience Measurement Survey 2009 in Iraq was an ad hoc national quantitative research study on media usage, habits and attitudes of people over the age of 15, across Iraq, with a total sample size of 2,200 individuals. The total sample consists of a representative sample of 2,000 individual ... more

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Freedom of the Press 2010: Broad Setbacks to Global Media Freedom

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2010), 261 pp.

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The Syrian Media Environment: A Stability Versus Change Enigma

Roland Huguenin-Benjamin

Paris: Panos Paris (2010), 29 pp.

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Internet or Enter-Not: The Syrian Experience

Salam Kawakibi

Amsterdam: Hivos;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) (2010), 13 pp.

"This working paper discusses the status of the internet in Syria. Syrian authorities show a large amount of distrust vis-à-vis the new technology and there is much state control. The list of banned sites is long, varied and flexible. Website bans are about muzzling free expression and controlling ... more

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The Private Media in Syria

Salam Kawakibi

The Hague; Amsterdam: Hivos;University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science (2010), 12 pp.

"This working paper is about the private media in Syria. A new publishing law was passed in 2001, which allowed the private sector to re-enter the media industry, having been banned from it since 1963. The relatively high number of approved publications since 2001 provides the Ministry of Informatio ... more

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Democratization Through the Media: IKV Pax Christi Work in Morocco 2007-2009

Francesco Cavatorta

The Hague; Amsterdam: Hivos;University of Amsterdam (2010), 28 pp.

This working paper is the result of a review of the work of Pax Christi in Morocco in the period 2007 – 2009. Pax Christi has co-organized a series of debates between Islamists and secularists in Morocco as part of a programme with Press Now entitled ‘Democratization through the media’. In the ... more

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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2010), xvi, 617 pp.

"Internet censorship and surveillance becomes more sophisticated. The first-generation controls like China's "Great Firewall" are being replaced by techniques that include strategically timed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, targeted malware, take-down notices and stringent terms-of-usa ... more

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News Consumption Among Young Libyan Adults: Are New Satellite TV News Services Displacing Local TV News?

Mokhtar Elareshi, Barrie Gunter

Arab Media & Society, issue 12 (2010), 21 pp.

"This study investigates the relationship between Libyan university students' consumption of Libyan and international Arab satellite TV news services and their perceptions of gratifications received from these news services. A self-completion questionnaire survey was administered to a sample of 400 ... more