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Broadcasting Change: Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Liberalism
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield (2018), 222 pp.
"Amid civil war, failing states, and terrorism, Arab liberals are growing in numbers and influence. Advocating a culture of equity, tolerance, good governance, and the rule of law, they work through some of the region's largest media outlets to spread their ideals within the culture. Broadcasting Ch
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Five-Year Retrospection
Deep Insights
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2018), 79 pp.
"The retrospection, which covers Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates, includes the following highlights: Internet penetration has increased in every country since 2013. The biggest increase occurred in Lebanon – from 58 percent to 91 percent in the la
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Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age
New York; Qatar: Oxford University Press; Georgetown University (2018), xii, 335 pp.
"Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the MENA region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are p
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Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1. Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.
"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s
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Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
Deep Insights
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp.
"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on-
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Children's TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education
Deep Insights
London; New York: Tauris (2017), xiii, 248 pp.
"Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at child
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Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xxii, 340 pp.
"Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global
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"The Saudi state has permitted government-appointed religious scholars and clerics and government institutions to refer to religious minorities such as Shia in derogatory terms or demonize them in official documents and religious rulings. In addition, in recent years, government-appointed clerics ha
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Journalists in Oman
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 6 pp.
"Regarding professional role orientations, journalists in Oman found it most important to be detached observers, to advocate for social change, to support national development, to provide analysis of current affairs, to provide the kind of news that attracts the largest audience, to influence public
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Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), xi, 194 pp.
"This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it presents a grass roots look at how new media use f
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Journalists in the UAE
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 5 pp.
"With regards to professional role orientations, journalists in the UAE found it most important to educate the audience, to influence public opinion, to promote tolerance and cultural diversity, to tell stories about the world, and to support government policy. Still, more than two out of five respo
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey
Deep Insights
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Harris Interactive (2017), 139 pp.
"Compared to five years ago, internet penetration rose in all six countries surveyed and most dramatically in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Smartphone ownership tracks closely with internet use in the six surveyed countries. Nearly all nationals in Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE own a sma
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice
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Online Activism in the Middle East: Political Power and Authoritarian Governments from Egypt to Kuwait
London: Tauris (2017), xiv, 402 pp.
"This book provides empirical analysis of the day-to-day use of online platforms by activists in Egypt and Kuwait. The research evaluates the importance of online platforms for effecting change and establishes a specific framework for doing so. Egypt and Kuwait were chosen because, since the mid-200
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Humanitarian Response and Media in the Arab Gulf Countries
"Two major media revolutions transformed the humanitarian response to disasters facing the Arab Gulf States, namely the 1991 launch of Pan-Arab satellite TV channels, and the 2010 advent of social media. Drawing on her own professional experience, the author argues that both media revolutions have h
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Fatwa on Satellite TV and the Development of Islamic Religious Discourse
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 10, issue 2 (2017), pp. 129-152
"Satellite TV and the Internet revolutions have reinvigorated religious discourse in public spaces. Across the world, religious TV channels and Internet religious websites have taken up the roles of traditional religious spaces such as churches, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras and temples. Islamic re
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Media in the Middle East: Activism, Politics, and Culture
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxxii, 265 pp.
"This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern studies discuss their views and perceptions of the media’s influence on
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Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxv, 277 pp.
"Maestri and Profanter highlight that the methodological approaches adopted in this volume are both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. Focusing on the changing relationship between the dynamics of Arab communication spaces and the role of Arab women both in and through the media, the introduct
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Auf Sand gebaut: Saudi-Arabien - ein problematischer Verbündeter
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 281 pp.
