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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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Internetnutzung islamistischer Terror- und Insurgentengruppen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von medialen Geiselnahmen im Irak, Afghanistan, Pakistan und Saudi-Arabien

Judith Tinnes
Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes, Doctoral Thesis (2010), xvii, 846 pp.
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Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Freedom House (2009), 123 pp.
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African Digital Media and the Public Sphere

Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, Fackson Banda (eds.)
New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xv, 260 pp.
"This book examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist, and pessimist stances through analyses of various forms of evide ... more
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Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion

Paul A. Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Roberta Green Ahmanson (eds.)
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2009), xv, 220 pp.
"This book analyzes media coverage of major news stories in which religion is a major component and recounts how journalist often miss, or misunderstand, these stories because they do not take religion seriously, or misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. Since religion is a major and ... more
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Gaza Media Safety

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 14 pp.
"Lack of safety and basic protection for media workers in Gaza – and in particular for journalists and photographers working freelance – has been identified as the most crucial and imminent issue in the weeks following the military offensive by Israel against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on 27 Decemb ... more
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Freedom of the Press 2009: Further Declines in Global Media Independence

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2009), 226 pp.
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Hezbollah's Media: Political History in Outline
Deep Insights

Olfa Lamloum
Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 3 (2009), pp. 353-367
"Since 1985, the Lebanese Hezbollah has developed a centralized communications apparatus which was a major instrument in building its leadership in the Shiite community. My contribution intends to explore the main media of this party as both cognitive and political resources for mobilization and as ... more
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.
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Fundamentalisms and the Media

Stewart M. Hoover, Nadia Kaneva (eds.)
London: Continuum (2009), xii, 223 pp.
"Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomentin ... more
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Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent

Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Robert Faris, John Palfrey
Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (2009), 62 pp.
"This study explores the structure and content of the Arabic blogosphere using link analysis, term frequency analysis, and human coding of individual blogs. We identified a base network of approximately 35,000 active Arabic language blogs (about half as many as we found in a previous study of the Pe ... more
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The Right to Offend, Shock or Disturb: A Guide to Evolution of Insult Laws in 2007 and 2008

Carolyn R. Wendell
Reston, Virg.: World Press Freedom Committee (2009), 155 pp.
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Television Studies After TV: Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay (eds.)
Abingdon: Routledge (2009), x, 214 pp.
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Behind the Scenes: Transparency in Lebanese Media Business Practices

Internews Network (2009), 64 pp.
"The present study is a first attempt to look inside media organizations in Lebanon in order to understand what kind of business decisions are being made. This study analyzes employee diversity, as well as political affiliation or media owners [...] There was a clear reluctance among media owners to ... more
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Defining the Nation? Lebanese Television and Political Elites, 1990-2005

Katharina Nötzold
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2009), 346 + xxvi pp.
"Katharina Nötzold explores whether and how mass media can contribute to nation-building after civil war. Drawing on the example of Lebanon s audiovisual media organisations, which are mostly privately owned by politicians, she demonstrates how political elites use television to transmit their visi ... more
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Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace

Mohammed El-Nawawy, Sahar Khamis
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), viii, 269 pp.
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Femme et television au Maghreb: Amélioration de l’image de la femme dans les télévisions du Maghreb francophone

Sahbi Ben Nablia
Rabat: UNESCO (2009), 58 pp.
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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Mit ITK aus der Krise

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM); Auswärtiges Amt (2009), 267 pp.
"In Ihren Händen halten Sie die zweite Auflage unserer Publikation „Auslandsmärkte als Chance“. Als wir vor gut zwei Jahren die erste Ausgabe veröffentlichten, florierte die Weltwirtschaft und mit ihr die IT- und Telekommunikationsmärkte. Wer hätte damals gedacht, dass wir im Jahr 2009 die ... more
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La caricature et le dessin de presse en Afrique

Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 239 pp.
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Israel/Gaza: Operation "Cast Lead": News Control as Military Objective: Palestinian Journalists Caught Between Israeli Firing and Hamas Threats

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2009), 13 pp.