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African Media, African Children: Yearbook 2008
Inspiring Practice

Norma Pecora, Enyonam Osei-Hwere, Ulla Carlsson (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom (2008), 243 pp.

"The essays in this volume reflect a wide-range of issues and concerns related to children’s media culture in Africa. For example, several address the role of entertainment television in Addis Abba, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, and Zambia and in the lives of Muslim children. Other essays introduce ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2008: Focus on Access to Infrastructure

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos;Third World Institute (ITeM) (2008), 204 pp.

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Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs

Sheila Kinkade, Katrin Verclas

Washington, DC; Berkshire: United Nations Foundation;Vodaphone Group Foundation (2008), 59 pp.

"In this second publication in our Access to Communications Publication Series, the authors examine real-life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. The compelling stories por ... more

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Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008: Reports on 31 Economies and 2 Sub-Regional Associations

Felix Librero, Patricia B. Arinto (eds.)

New Dehli: Sage India;Orbicom;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), xv, 373 pp.

"This edition (2007/2008) continues the tradition of providing an analytical overview of the state of ICT4D in Asia Pacific. It covers 31 countries and economies, including North Korea for the first time. Each country chapter is an attempt to provide a relatively comprehensive coverage of the variou ... more

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The Impact of Media Laws on Arab Digital and Print Content

Naomi Sakr

[author] (2008), 52 pp.

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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

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

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), 449 pp.

"Internet filtering takes place in at least forty states worldwide including many countries in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. This publication examines the political, legal, social, and cultural contexts of Internet filtering in these states from a variety of perspectives. The six introd ... more

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Gewalt als Gottesdienst: Religionskriege im Zeitalter der Globalisierung

Hans G. Kippenberg

München: Beck (2008), 272 pp.

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Freedom of the Press 2008: Draft Country Reports

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Sarah G. Cook (eds.)

New York; Washington, DC: Freedom House (2008), 239 pp.

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Gospel in the Air: 50 Years of Christian Witness Through Radio in the Arab World
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Jos M. Strengholt

Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum (2008), xxxiii, 962 pp.

"This study is the result of archival research, hundreds of interviews, and listening to hundreds of programs as broadcast from 20-26 September 2004. It focuses on the question of how the broadcasts of the Protestants in the Arab World are a witness to the Christian gospel. The main question asked, ... more

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An Evaluation of Alhurra Television Programming

Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Center on Public Diplomacy (2008), 74 pp.

"Based primarily on the content analysis, with secondary reinforcement from the discussion group proceedings, the research team sees the principal issues affecting Alhurra as being those related to the fundamentals of journalism, not the exigencies of politics. This is not an esoteric matter related ... to an idealized journalism, but rather goes directly to the issue of Alhurra's fulfillment of its legislative mandate and its responsibilities deriving from the Middle East Broadcast Network Journalistic Code of Ethics. Section 303 of the International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (as amended) calls for, among other provisions, United States international broadcasting to “be conducted in accordance with the highest professional standards of broadcast journalism” and “to be designed so as to effectively reach a significant audience.” These broad requirements coincide with the more specific standards prescribed by the MBN code of ethics. Within this framework, the challenges facing Alhurra as it seeks to attain excellence in carrying out its mandate are those that must be addressed by all news organizations: Ensuring comprehensiveness of coverage; providing the breadth that the audience expects; • Imposing discipline in producing the news product to protect against personal and institutional biases that can infect a news product; • Offering diverse viewpoints about important issues from sources whose backgrounds and expertise contribute to a balanced news product; • Avoiding rumor and other unsubstantiated material; • Thoughtfully and thoroughly addressing the topics of greatest interest to the target audience, such as religion and local democratization efforts. Add to these Alhurra's additional duty to reflect and promote U.S. policies and it is clear that the task for this news organization is exceptionally difficult. For each of these duties, our diagnosis is that Alhurra is not performing at the level that it needs to reach to be successful. To fulfill Alhurra's mission requires being able to compete effectively in the Arab news marketplace. That will require expanded and more proficient coverage, and to reach this higher level will necessitate a significant budget expansion to enable broader reporting and more professional management. It will also require grappling with political issues involving journalistic independence and the realities of establishing the credibility needed to gain and keep an Arab audience." (Executive summary) more

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Hegemony in the Digital Age: The Arab/Israeli Conflict Online

Stephen M. E. Marmura

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2008), 185 pp.

"Internet technology has arguably changed the rules by which individuals, social movements, and institutions compete for political and cultural influence in technologically advanced societies. The author considers this reality through reference to the concept of hegemony; looking to the ways in whic ... more

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Using Content Analysis to Measure the Influence of Media Development Interventions: Elections Training for Journalists in Yemen

Sonia Whitehead, Esther Saville

London: BBC World Service Trust (2008), 8 pp.

"The findings from this research reveal the complexity of delivering journalism training and the challenges involved in capturing evidence of impact. Content analysis is a useful tool for measuring change in media output. It can both inform training delivery and provide evidence of improvements to o ... more

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Dealing with the Past in Israel-Palestine and in the Western Balkans. Story-telling in Conflict: Developing Practice and Research

Veronique Dudouet, Martina Fischer, Beatrix Schmelzle

Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflicts Management (2008), 20 pp.

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Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11

Michael J. Barker

Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 1 (2008), pp. 109-130

"This paper has demonstrated that the benefits for the general Afghan and Iraqi public derived from the ‘promotion of independent media’ by institutions like the NED are questionable, especially for parties interested in encouraging more deliberative or participatory forms of democracy. Instead, ... more

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Jugend, Medien und Migration: Empirische Ergebnisse und Perspektiven

Heinz Bonfadelli, Priska Bucher, Christa Hanetseder, Thomas Hermann, Mustafa Ideli, Heinz Moser

Wiesbaden: Springer VS, Online-Ausg. (2008), 269 pp.

"Man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kamen Menschen. Sie fressen den Wohlstand nicht auf, im Gegenteil, sie sind 1 für den Wohlstand unerlässlich." Max Frisch Die modernen Massenmedien besitzen in unserem Alltag einen wichtigen Stellenwert und tragen bei Erwachsenen, aber gerade auch bei Heranw ... more

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Aneignungen des Globalen: Internet-Alltag in der arabischen Welt. Eine Fallstudie in Marokko

Ines Braune

Bielefeld: transcript (2008), 259 pp.

"Ängste und Hoffnungen verbinden sich mit den jungen Menschen, die in der arabischen Welt zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung ausmachen. Wie reagieren die Jugendlichen auf die Herausforderungen einer globalisierten Welt? Anhand der Internetnutzung marokkanischer Jugendlicher und den damit verbundenen Ane ... more

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Arab Media Audience Research: Developments and Constraints

Hussein Amin

In: Arab Media: Power and Weakness

Kai Hafez (ed.)

New York; London: Continuum (2008), pp. 69-90

"With more than 190 million inhabitants and over 36 million households, the Arab world’s strong population growth combined with continued economic development make it a highly attractive market for broadcasters. Arab countries have more than 150 free-to-air television channels available to most ho ... more

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Arab Media: Power and Weakness
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Kai Hafez (ed.)

New York; London: Continuum (2008), ix, 277 pp.

"Arab Media: Power and Weakness is comprised of research synopses (comprehensive overviews over the current academic literature and “blind spots” of research in one of the above mentioned fields); original empirical research; and theoretical papers. The result is a comprehensive handbook of up-t ... more

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Mapping Iran's Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere

John Kelly, Bruce Etling

Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2008), 36 pp.

"We used computational social network mapping in combination with human and automated content analysis to analyze the Iranian blogosphere. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing re ... more

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Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory

Nurith Gertz, George Khleifi

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2008), vii, 224 pp.

"One of the best sources for understanding Palestinian culture is the cinema, which has strived to delineate Palestinian history and to portray the daily lives of Palestinian men, women, and children. Here, an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar, in a rare and welcome collaboration, follow the develop ... more

African Media, African Children: Yearbook 2008 Inspiring Practice

Gospel in the Air: 50 Years of Christian Witness Through Radio in the Arab World Top Insights

Arab Media: Power and Weakness Top Insights

African Media, African Children: Yearbook 2008
Inspiring Practice

Gospel in the Air: 50 Years of Christian Witness Through Radio in the Arab World
Top Insights

Arab Media: Power and Weakness
Top Insights