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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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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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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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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
Deep Insights
"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas
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Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-First Century
Deep Insights
London; New York: Tauris (2017), xii, 226 pp.
Structural Working Conditions of Journalism in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: Empirical Findings from Interviews with Journalists Reporting on Democratisation Conflicts
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 21 pp.
"The structural conditions of journalism are shaped by legacies of the past (marked by non-democratic regimes and sometimes colonial rule) and persisting power structures. The state and powerful political actors are perceived to play an important role in the media sector, mirrored in different forms
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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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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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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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How Does the Media on Both Sides of the Mediterranean Report on Migration? A Study by Journalists, for Journalists and Policy-Makers
Deep Insights
Vienna et al.: International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD); Ethical Journalism Network (EJN); European Union (2017), 120 pp.
"Journalists from 17 countries, mostly around the Mediterranean, have examined the quality of media coverage within their respective national contexts. They highlight examples of good work marked by careful, sensitive and humanitarian reporting and also expose the shortcomings as well as the darker
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Journalists in Egypt
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 5 pp.
"Egyptian journalists' most important role orientations are to be a detached observer, to report things as they are, to provide information people need to make political decisions, to let people express their views, to motivate people to participate in political activity, and to provide analysis for
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Framing von Terrorismus im Nahostkonflikt: Eine Analyse deutscher und ägyptischer Printmedien
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2017), xx, 447 pp.
Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out
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Medienpraktiken der ägyptischen Muslimbruderschaft: Anpassungen an politische und mediale Entwicklungen
Communicatio Socialis, volume 50, issue 3 (2017), pp. 406-417
"Die ägyptische Muslimbruderschaft hat in den fast 90 Jahren ihres Bestehens immer wieder neue Kommunikationstechnologien adaptiert und Medienpraktiken inkorporiert, um ihre Außenkommunikation zu professionalisieren. Der Beitrag zeigt unter Rückgriff auf Ansätze der Sozialen-Bewegungs-Forschung
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Media Framing of Democratisation Conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: A Content Analysis
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 26 pp.
"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S
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Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations
Deep Insights
Austin, Tex.: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas; World Journalism Education Council (2017), xviii, 468 pp.
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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Media, Diaspora and Conflict
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxiii, 240 pp.
"This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland. Considering the impacts of conflict on migration in the past decades, it is important to understand the capac
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Radio and Revolution
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 12, issue 2 (2017), pp. 1-86
"Radio from its beginning has been a revolutionary technology adaptable both to violent overthrow of corrupt regimes and gradual almost unheeded social change. This issue of WPCC invited submission of papers on the subject of radio and revolution. We suggested that revolution be intended in its broa
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Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2016), xiii, 355 pp.
"Offers up-to-date insights into the state of library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa. Covered topics include information literacy, intellectual property, LIS education and research, publishing and more. This timely contribution thus presents vital areas of research
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