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Arab TV-Audiences: Negotiating Religion and Identity
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2014), 150 pp.
"Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media
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Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xi, 285 pp.
"Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made the Arab uprisings possible." (Publisher description)
"Television viewing is ubiquitous in Egypt and by far the most common source of information for its residents. Nearly all (98.8%) Egyptians have a working television in their home, while just 37.9% of Egyptians have a radio. The percentage of Egyptians with a radio in their household is down signifi
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Global Citizenship in a Digital World
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media; Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.
"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation
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Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa: Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access
Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), xxi, 192 pp.
"[This publication] re-emphasizes the important contribution that broadband Internet can make and assesses the status of existing infrastructure in at least 18 MENA countries. While there is significant potential across the region, the take-up of broadband Internet has been slow and the price of bro
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Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2014), 122 pp.
"Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East is the result of survey research in six Arab nations involving more than 6,000 face-to-face interviews in nationally representative samples—citizens and expatriates alike—and conducted in Arabic, English and French. The result is a portrait of how peop
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"The Internet will generate economic growth and social transformation in six sectors in particular: financial services, education, health, retail, agriculture, and government. In financial services, for example, M.Pesa's mobile money solutions have brought millions of Kenyans onto the financial grid
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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 240 pp.
"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a
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New Directions of Internet Activism in Egypt
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 38, issue 3 (2013), pp. 251-267
"Research on new media has always highlighted the assumption that in authoritarian contexts, communication technologies provide political activists with ampler space than available in the heavily policed physical world. However, social and political changes taking place throughout Egypt and the Arab
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Cyberactivism in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions: Potentials, Limitations, Overlaps and Divergences
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 69-86
"This article discusses the role of ‘cyberactivism’ or the role played by new media in paving the way for political transformation, in both the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions of 2011. It starts with a discussion of the potentials of cyberactivism in both of these revolutions, especially how t
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National Broadcasting and State Policy in Arab Countries
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xii, 221 pp.
"A state-of-the-art analysis of the situation of national television in Arab countries, addressing what Arab national broadcastings today say about public policy and political opening. The essays deal with the reforms of public broadcasting organizations and the evolution, perspectives and issues of
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The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings: Past and Present
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 9, issue 2 (2013), pp. 1-122
News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries
New York; London: Bloomsbury (2013), viii, 199 pp.
"News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries is based on ongoing research at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, and has investigated the rapidly changing nature of the news media in Arab countries. They have investigated the role of newspape
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Mapping Digital Media: Egypt
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 78 pp.
Die weltweite Situation der christlichen Minderheiten
München: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (HSS) (2013), 88 pp.
The Arab World: The Role of Media in the Arab World's Transformation Process
Berlin: Vistas (2013), 286 pp.
Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle
London; New York: Tauris (2013), xii, 248 pp.
"Politics in the Middle East is now ‘seen’ and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, i
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Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), viii, 241 pp.
"This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution." (Publishe
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Objectivity in the Shadows of Political Turmoil, a Comparative Content Analysis of News Framing in Post-Revolution Egypt’s Press
Cairo: American University in Cairo, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, MA Thesis (2013), 128 pp.
"The study samples Al Ahram, Al Wafd, the Freedom and Justice Party paper, Al Masry Al Youm, and Al Shorouk, five major dailies that represent the three categories of ownership prevalent in Egyptian media – government owned, partisan, and independent (or privately owned) papers. Using quantitative
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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.
"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre
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