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Religion Macht Frieden: Das Friedenspotenzial von Religionen in politischen Gewaltkonflikten
Deep Insights

Markus A. Weingardt
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2010), 480 pp.
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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
Deep Insights

Pippa Norris (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xxi, 420 pp.
"This book highlights the importance of the news media as watchdogs, agenda setters and gatekeepers for the quality of democratic deliberation in the public sphere. At the same time, it theorizes that the capacity of journalists and media systems to fulfill these roles depends on the broader context ... 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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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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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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Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity

Gholam Khiabany
New York; London: Routledge (2010), xii, 251 pp.
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Surfing the App Souq: Islamic Applications for Mobile Devices

Gary R. Bunt
CyberOrient, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), pp. 3-18
"This article introduces issues associated with Islamic apps for mobile devices, and surveys some of the products that have emerged into the market. It considers the potential impact of mobile phone interfaces in relation to interpretations of Islam and the use of Islamic resources, given that mobil ... more
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Attacks on the Press in 2009: A Worldwide Survey

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2010), 359 pp.
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Media Habits of MENA Youth: A Three-Country Survey

Jad Melki
Beirut: American University of Beirut (AUB), Research and Policy Forum on Youth in the Arab World (2010), 50 pp.
"This pilot study surveyed 2,744 university and high school students in Jordan, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. It asked about their media consumption and production habits, and about their attitudes towards certain media. Among the significant findings, the survey found the participants high ... more
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Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century

Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Jay Winter, Ruth Ginio (eds.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010), ix, 223 pp.
"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence ... more
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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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Journalism Ethics Revisited: A Comparison of Ethics Codes in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Muslim Asia

Kai Hafez
Political Communication, volume 19, issue 2 (2010), pp. 225-250
"Formal journalism ethics, as laid out in codes of ethics by journalism associations and the like, is part of a wider debate on media ethics that has been triggered in the Middle East due to the advent of global media in the region. This study compares journalism codes from Europe and the Islamic wo ... more
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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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Forces of Gatekeeping and Journalists' Perceptions of Physical Danger in Post-Saddam Hussein's Iraq

Hun Shik Kim
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 87, issue 3-4 (2010), pp. 484-500
"Iraqi journalists operate in one of the deadliest newsgathering environments in the world. This study, based on a survey of 404 Iraqi journalists, examines the variables influencing journalists' perceptions of physical danger in covering news after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Gatekeeping theory pro ... more
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The Anthropology of News & Journalism: Global Perspectives

S. Elizabeth Bird (ed.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), viii, 328 pp.
"The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective—as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and eth ... more
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Tracking Initiatives in Communication for Development in the Near East

Wendy Quarry, Emrys Shoemaker
Rome: FAO (2010), iv, 31 pp.
"The main objective of this booklet is to provide an overview of current initiatives and projects focusing on Communication for Development applied to natural resources management and agriculture in the region, assess the main challenges, and identify links and opportunities to strengthen their coll ... more
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(Amplified) Voices for the Voiceless

David Faris
Arab Media & Society, issue 11 (2010), 20 pp.
"David Faris looks at the role bloggers played in the campaign to enable Egypt's tiny Baha'i minority to obtain identity cards without identifying themselves as Muslims or Christians. He traces the links between a handful of Baha'i bloggers, a wider circle of sympathetic activist bloggers and some k ... 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
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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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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