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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 590 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa stands as an authoritative and up-to-date resource on the critical debates, research methods and ongoing reflections on how gender and communication intersect with the economic, social, political, and cultu
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Mediatized Arab Diasporas: Understanding the Role of Transnational Media in Diasporic Political Action Formation
Arab Reform Initiative (2022), 21 pp.
"[…] The studies presented here […] seek to explore two questions: how have Arab diasporic communities in Europe used Arab media in transnational political action formation since 2011? And how does the use of different media platforms stimulate or confine particular diasporic action, and what do
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Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media
London: Hurst & Company (2022), 303 pp.
"By the time readers arrive at the end of Jones’s astonishing examination of social media in the Middle East, they will be completely persuaded that it is now impossible to tell whether anything they read online is true. Replete with bots and sock puppets, trolls and dupes, this online world is bo
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Arab Media Systems
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Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2021), xliv, 345 pp.
"This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country's media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contribu
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Routledge Handbook on Arab Media
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London; New York: Routledge (2021), 528 pp.
"This Handbook provides the first comprehensive reference book in English about the development of mass and social media in all Arab countries. Capturing the historical as well as current developments in the media scene, this collection maps the role of media in social and political movements. Contr
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Regional E-Waste Monitor for the Arab States
Bonn: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP);United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR);ITU;United Nations University (UNU) (2021), 103 pp.
"The key statistical findings for the region are that electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) placed on the market (POM) increased by 30 per cent from 3.2 megatons (Mt), or 8.8 kilograms per inhabitant (kg/inh), in 2010 to 4.1 Mt (or 9.5 kg/inh) in 2019. The Arab States mostly import, rather than
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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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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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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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey
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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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Social Media in the Arab World: Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States
London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp.
"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp
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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.
"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac
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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.
"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t
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Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity
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London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 288 pp.
"The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture. This book exa
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh
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Arabische Medien
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Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), 344 pp.
"Im Fokus des ersten Teils stehen transnationale Phänomene wie die Bedeutung des Satellitenfernsehens und der Sozialen Medien sowie die Rolle von Minderheiten, Gender und Islamisten in den Medien. Diese Beiträge geben den aktuellen Stand der Forschung wieder und reflektieren diesen. Im zweiten Tei
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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age
Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2014), 283 pp.
"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy
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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa
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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r
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Media Use in the Middle East: An Eight-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar;Harris Interactive (2013), 97 pp.
"In assessing attitudes toward the media, one notable finding was a vote of confidence for improved quality of news media reporting between 2011 and 2013 with a majority of adults agreeing that it has improved in six of the eight countries surveyed. This optimism is also reflected in overall percept
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Media Laws and Regulations of the GCC Countries: Summary, Analysis and Recommendations
Doha: Doha Centre for Media Freedom (2013), 73 pp.
"This report represents an effort to help with the process of evaluating media laws in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. As governments consider what policies to set up to deal with new realities, this research should help provide an understanding of the current landscape. When examining
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