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#HashtagSolidarities: Twitter Debates and Networks in the MENA Region
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2016), 62 pp.
"This study identified three local or subregional incidents that led to heated debates on Twitter: a video shared on Twitter of the sexual assault of a woman on Cairo’s Tahrir Square in June 2014, anti-fracking protests in southern Algeria in early 2015, and Saudi Arabia’s military intervention
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"Instead of seeking to provide an objective definition of hate speech, the paper’s empirical approach highlights that context matters. More specifically, analysis of the political and socio-economic context in which the speech act occurs and consideration of the nature of the speaker and audience
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Civil Society, Political Activism and Communications in Democratisation Conflicts: A Literature Review
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 35 pp.
"Given that the nature of civil society in different countries is different, and also often shifting in response to political changes, examining the relationship between civil society and media production (mainstream and alternative) in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa involves being sensitive
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Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), viii, 327 pp.
"Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world. This volume examines this topic with interdisciplinary contributions that range across media studies, anthroplogy, religious studies, and political science and explore both new a
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Journalistic Practices, Role Perceptions and Ethics in Democratisation Conflicts: Empirical Findings from Interviews with Journalists in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 82 pp.
"This report provides an overview of core comparative findings from MeCoDEM interviews with journalists in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa. It investigates the role of journalistic actors in transitional societies across a set of comparable democratisation conflicts and themes of inquiry: jour
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Preaching Islamic Renewal: Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), xi, 261 pp.
"Preaching Islamic Renewal examines the life and work of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi, one of Egypt's most beloved and successful Islamic preachers. His wildly popular TV program aired every Friday for years until his death in 1998. At the height of his career, it was estimated that up to 30 million
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Mediated Identities and New Journalism in the Arab World: Mapping the "Arab Spring"
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 214 pp.
"This book looks into the role played by mediated communication, particularly new and social media, in shaping various forms of struggles around power, identity and religion at a time when the Arab world is going through an unprecedented period of turmoil and upheaval. The book provides unique and m
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A Divine Cosmopolitism? Religion, Media and Imagination in a Socially Divided Cairo
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 48-63
"With a focus on young Egyptian women, this article explores the different ways it becomes possible to reconcile a Muslim identity with a cosmopolitan openness towards the world. Informed primarily by transnational television, these women articulate a divine cosmopolitan imagination through which th
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Egypt's Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC: Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (2016), 5 pp.
Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
Deep Insights
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.
"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati
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The Crime of Speech: How Arab Governments Use the Law to Silence Expression Online
Electronic Frontier Foundation (2016), 31 pp.
"I have found that Saudi Arabia and Jordan rely on counterterrorism and cybercrime regulations to prosecute online activism. Egypt uses a new anti-protest law passed in 2014 and Tunisia, in contrast, relies on old defamation and anti-drug laws that have been used for decades prior to the revolution.
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Mapping Structural Conditions of Journalism in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 124 pp.
"Structural conditions are to be understood as the totality of (formal and informal) orders and structures that characterise media and journalism in a certain space, most commonly, a country. Eleven interrelated and interdependent dimensions of structural conditions relevant to media and journalism
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Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Deep Insights
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), 174 pp.
"This report contains the collected, examined, and produced information on the fundamental characteristics of the media and communication industries, whenever possible, in the MENA region as a whole. It typically includes 14 countries from Mauritania on the Atlantic Ocean to Oman on the Arab Gulf. F
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Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
Deep Insights
London: Hurst (2016), xi, 254 pp.
"Bullets and Bulletins takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the wake of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, with the research backed up by in-depth and rigorous case studies of the key countries of
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The safety of Al Jazeera English journalists in Egypt
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 10, issue 2 (2016), pp. 68-91
"The imprisonment of Al Jazeera English (AJE) journalists (Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian national Mohamed Fahmy, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed) in Egypt between 2013 and 2015 reflected the recent ten agenda items of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNES
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Comparative Analysis of Civil Society, Media and Conflict
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 52 pp.
"This paper explores how Egyptian, Kenyan, Serbian and South African civil society organisations (CSOs) use communication and relationships with media to engage in democratic contestation. Individual interviews were conducted with 91 CSO members who participated in the various democratisation confli
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Media Use in the Middle East 2015: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2015), 73 pp.
"Especially notable in the 2015 study is that most people access the internet on their phones rather than by laptop or desktop computers. That’s true in every country in our sample, except Egypt, where an ailing economy has slowed the adoption of new technologies common elsewhere in the region and
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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics
Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides
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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