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Voices of Refugees: Information and Communication Needs of Refugees in Greece and Germany
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 52 pp.
"This study provides a snapshot of refugees’ experiences regarding communication and information at different points on their journey. It examines the communication behaviours and priority information needs of refugees in three areas: on their journey, in “transit” camps in Greece, and in Germ
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"Wir brechen gerade alle Tabus"
Medium Magazin, issue 11 (2016), pp. 30-34
"Der junge Deutsch-Araber Jaafar Abdul Karim ist ein Star im arabischen Programm der Deutschen Welle. Simone Schlindwein, Afrika-Korrespondentin der taz, sprach mit ihm über Journalismus in Zeiten der Radikalisierung im In- und Ausland." (Seite 30)
Social Media and Social Movements: The Transformation of Communication Patterns
Lanham; Boulder: Lexington Books (2016), xix, 252 pp.
Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity
Deep Insights
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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Atlas des Arabischen Frühlings: Eine Weltreligion im Umbruch
Deep Insights
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 333 pp.
"Der Atlas stellt anhand von Texten, Grafiken und Illustrationen die wichtigsten Ereignisse und Protagonisten der sozialen und politischen Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt vor. Er beleuchtet speziell auch die regionalen wie globalen Auswirkungen. Dabei kommen ganz wesentlich Journalisten und Wissens
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"Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left b
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Beyond peace journalism: Reclassifying conflict narratives in the Israeli news media
Journal of Peace Research, volume 53, issue 2 (2016), pp. 151-165
"This article presents a general framework for deconstructing and classifying conflict news narratives. This framework, based on a nuanced and contextual approach to analyzing media representations of conflict actors and events, addresses some of the weaknesses of existing classification schemes, fo
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Executive Summary: Advertising Expenditure Forecasts March 2016
London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 10 pp.
"ZenithOptimedia predicts global ad expenditure will grow 4.6% in 2016, reaching US$579 billion by the end of the year. This will be a 0.7 percentage point improvement on 2015: 2016 is a ‘quadrennial’ year, when ad expenditure is boosted by the Summer Olympics, the US presidential election and t
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Ramadan TV
In: Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), pp. 152-161
"Television executives and producers are busy for 11 months of the year, preparing for the do-or-die one-month television season: Ramadan. This ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar is at once a period of religious devotion and a time for the television industry’s best productions. It is a tim
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Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2016. Top Trends and Data from the Past 12 Months
[author] (2016), 16 pp.
"This report is the fifth in a series of annual reports designed to capture key developments and data related to usage of social media in the Middle East. The past year has seen the continued growth of visual-led social networks, especially in the more affluent Gulf region. Meanwhile, the discernibl
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
Deep Insights
Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed
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Transnationales Satellitenfernsehen: Bilder sprengen Grenzen
"Transnationale arabische Satellitenfernsehsender sind immer noch die meistgenutzten Medien in fast allen Ländern der Region - sei es für Informationen oder Unterhaltung. Internetmedien werden ihnen vermutlich in den nächsten Jahren nicht den Rang ablaufen können. Stärkste Konkurrenz könnten w
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Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique
Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2015), xiii, 254 pp.
"Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world―Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestin
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The World Through Picture Books: Librarians’ Favourite Books from Their Country
The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2nd ed. (2015), 218 pp.
"We are very happy to publish the second edition of The World through Picture Books, enriched with sixteen new annotated lists. This new edition proves even more the very enthusiastic, skilled participation of librarians and the great success of this international programme. The programme deals with
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Global Support for Principle of Free Expression, But Opposition to Some Forms of Speech
Pew Research Center (2015), 58 pp.
"Although many observers have documented a global decline in democratic rights in recent years, people around the world nonetheless embrace fundamental democratic values, including free expression. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities in nearly all 38 nations polled say it is at le
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Who Makes the News? Global Media Monitoring Project 2015
London; Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2015), v, 152 pp.
"Although in the decade 1995 to 2005 there was a slow but steady increase in women’s visibility in the news, the decade 2005 to 2015 has been one of stagnation. At 24% of the total, there has been no change in women’s share of news-making roles in the traditional media (newspapers, radio, televi
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Media Scene: Middle East (Focus on UAE & KSA)
Paris: Publicitas (2015), 38 slides
Online Arab Spring: Social Media and Fundamental Change
Waltham, MA: Chandos Publishing; Elsevier (2015), xvi, 91 pp.
"What is the role of social media on fundamental change in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Online Arab Spring responds to this question, considering five countries: Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia, along with additional examples. The book asks why the penetration rate fo
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