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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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Leaping Over the Firewall: A Review of Censorship Circumvention Tools

Cormac Callanan, Hein Dries-Ziekenheiner, Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Robert Guerra
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2011), 75 pp.
"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f ... more
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Audience Analysis: The Role of Journalism and Social Media in the Consumption of News in Iraq. 2011 Iraq Media Study

Washington, DC: IREX; D3 Systems (2011), 59 pp.
The IREX Audience Measurement Survey 2011 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 3,000 individuals. The total sample consists of a representative sample of 2,600 individual ... 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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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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Peace journalism: Giving power to the people

Media Development, volume 58, issue 2 (2011), pp. 3-35
"Peace journalism finds its place in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, in film and documentaries, in digital media and mainstream cultural events such as public exhibitions and debates. There are also transnational online communities like Avaaz.org, which is dedicated to organizing ... more
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The Changing Representation of the Arab Woman in Middle East Advertising and Media

Badreya Nasser Abdullah Al Jenaibi
Global Media Journal - Arabian Edition, volume 1, issue 2 (2011), pp. 67-88
"As the United Arab Emirates continues to emerge as a cosmopolitan tourist destination, the marketing of Arab images to create metaphors of hospitality and openness, even sex appeal, will continue to grow. Images of Arab women are central to the branding of the UAE in its desired role as a globally ... more
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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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17 February Revolution: Media in North-Eastern Libya

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2011), 16 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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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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