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Criminal Prosecutions of Online Speech: Outdated and Flawed Laws Used to Restrict Speech in Tunisia
London: Amnesty International (2020), 15 pp.
"An increasing number of prosecutions of bloggers and Facebook users have taken place in relation to their peaceful expression online. They have been investigated or charged or sometimes sentenced on criminal charges including defamation, insulting state institutions and “harming” others through
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Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
Deep Insights
London: Minority Rights Group International (2020), 189 pp.
Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2020), xiii, 342 pp.
"The authors engage with a range of cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to explore the actions of a vigilant digital audience — denunciation, shaming, doxing — and to consider the role of the press and other public figures in supporting or contesting these activities. In turn, the volume il
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Making Sense of Journalists' Safety and Media Freedom in Egypt Between Different Types of Threats and the Ruling Legislative Context: Multi-Analytical study
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 172-185
"This study seeks to investigate different types of threats which affect the journalists' safety in Egypt and how do they manage their work in the presence of the diverse threats. The study analyzes the Egyptian legislative framework in order to explain whether it protects media freedom and journali
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Off and Online Journalism and Corruption: International Comparative Analysis
London: Intech Open (2020), various pag.
MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
Deep Insights
New York: Routledge (2020), xxx, 358 pp.
"With e-learning technologies evolving and expanding at high rates, organizations and institutions around the world are integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other open educational resources (OERs). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveragi
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Les réseaux sociaux: Une arme à double tranchant pour les mouvements sociaux et leur lutte contre le "pouvoir" en Algérie
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean (2020), 34 pp.
"En Algérie, le poids des réseaux sociaux dans le renouvellement de l’engagement citoyen dans la vie politique et l’impact des mobilisations citoyennes sur le paysage politique sont étroitement liés à l’absence d’un environnement favorable à toute autre forme d’association et d’exp
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Libya Social Media Monitoring Report: Main Findings
Democracy Reporting International; ZINC Network (2020), 10 pp.
"This report presents our main findings from eleven months of social media monitoring. We identify the main narratives of online discourse and their key drivers, as well as the weaknesses of Libya’s social media landscape — and how to address them." (Summary)
The Independence of the News Media: Francophone Research on Media, Economics and Politics
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 320 pp.
"This book explores the different ways Francophone research on news media has faced the challenges of dependence and independence from three complementary perspectives. The first is economics - how can sustainable business models be developed and to what extent can crowdfunding help to maintain the
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Vulnérabilité et internet au Maroc: Entre précarisation et empowerment
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 173 pp.
Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment
New York: Routledge (2020), 338 pp.
"This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement. T
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The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 134 pp.
"As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the internet have enabled sharing and archiving in an unprecedented fashion. Yet, at the same time,
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Communication publique, espace et citoyennete
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 290 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
Deep Insights
"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose
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The Augmented Archive: History in Real Time. An Archaeology of Images of the Egyptian Revolution
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 5092-5107
"This study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a media-archaeological approach in both theory and practice: The media artist Kaya
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Journalism and the Challenge of Democracy in Transitional Countries: African Experiences
International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 7 (2020), pp. 591-681
World Entertainment Media: Global, Regional and Local Perspectives
New York; London: Routledge (2020), xvi, 210 pp.
"There are still opposing and restraining forces to globalization processes taking place in media, and the global mediascape comprises international, regional and local markets, and global and local players, which in recent years have evolved at an uneven pace. By analyzing similarities and differen
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Civil Society in the Digital Age in Africa: Identifying Threats and Mounting Pushbacks
Pretoria; Kampala: Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; CIPESA (2020), 78 pp.
"The report documents the threats to civil society in the digital age by examining the legislative and regulatory framework in four countries in Africa: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. These countries were selected from the four main geographic regions of Africa, in order to provide a sense
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Political Parallelism in Transitional Media Systems: The Case of Libya
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1173-1193
"Among the media systems in transitional countries of the Middle East and North Africa, political parallelism has become a widespread feature that has both promoted and undermined the transition to democracy. Political parallelism refers to structural ties between media organizations and political a
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"The 10 countries included in this paper all show specific characteristics and contexts but also show similar barriers. Identifying shared characteristics will facilitate the development of shared approaches to deal with shrinking space. Don’t work in silos!
It’s (also) about upholding the law:
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