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Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom
Deep Insights
New York: Peter Lang (2010), xiii, 263 pp.
"Since the 1990s journalism education programs have expanded exponentially around the world, but media freedom has not. Globally comparative, this edited volume assesses journalism education and the challenging environment in which it is delivered in countries with a partly free or not free status a
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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
Deep Insights
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
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Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East: Islamic, Christian and Jewish Channels. Programmes and Discourses
Deep Insights
"Since the mid-1990s, the influence of satellite television broadcasting in the Middle East has become central to the shaping of public attitudes in the region and beyond. While many of the main influential mainstream satellite channels are news-focused, entertainment and religious broadcasting are
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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2010), xii, 285 pp.
"Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people ar
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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
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Internationales Handbuch Medien
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.
"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on
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Media Sustainability Index 2008: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in the Middle East and North Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2009), xix, 209 pp.
The blogging revolution
Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press (2008), vii, 294 pp.
"This searching examination explores how the internet is threatening the rule of particularly repressive governments - including China, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Addressing internet censorship, citizen journalism, and the growing popularity of blogging as a means for change, this in-dept
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Media Sustainability Index 2006/2007: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in the Middle East and North Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2008), xix, 231 pp.
Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life
Deep Insights
London: Tauris (2007), 208 pp.
"[...] This authoritative book answers key questions about the connections between media and political change in the Arab world. Using research into, for example, practices of Internet users, journalists, demonstrators and producers of reality TV, it explores the interface between public interaction
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Performance of the Arabic Book Translation Industry in Selected Arab Countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi-Arabia and Syria
Zurich: Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) (2007), 168 pp.
"Underperformance of the Arabic book translation industry is attributable to (among other factors) severe coordination failures. This is a state of affairs in which the inability of the different agents (translators, book publishers, suppliers, customers, and supporting organizations, state, and so
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(Un)civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World
Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International (2007), 164 pp.
New Media and the New Middle East
New York; Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xviii, 263 pp.
"In this book, leading international scholars examine the way new media is reshaping lives and politics. Covering topics from women's rights to terrorism, and countries from Israel to Saudi Arabia, these authors explore the global and regional ramifications of the proliferation of communication tech
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Middle East Media Guide 2006
Dubai: MediaSouce (2006), 380 pp.
The Internet in the Middle East: Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in Kuwait
New York: State University of New York Press (2006), xi, 241 pp.
"Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourse and social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus on Kuwait, Deborah L. Wheeler offers an intimate journ
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Media Sustainability Index 2005: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in the Middle East and North Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2006), xix, 231 pp.
