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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam

Zachary Abuza, Sherif Mansour, Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.

"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi ... more

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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends

Peggy Valcke, Miklós Sükösd, Robert G. Picard (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.

"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur ... more

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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), v, 82 pp.

"This report, which has been produced by a group of distinguished journalists and their supporters, examines the broad scope of the crisis. It covers countries where media are on the frontline of tough political battles, such as Egypt and Turkey. In Ukraine, for instance, the practice of paid-for jo ... urnalism is a tool routinely used by politicians at election time. The same is true in India. In other countries, including Nigeria, Philippines, and Colombia the precarious working conditions of news staff provide fertile conditions for corruption and “brown envelopes” or under-the-table cash payments to reporters and editors which are a routine feature of journalistic work. The struggles facing journalists in settled democracies, such as the United Kingdom and Denmark, are less brazen, but no less challenging and in a range of countries across the Western Balkans with a shared and painful history, media corruption hinders aspirations to break free from the legacy of war, censorship and political control during decades of communist rule. The story is of an uphill struggle. Everywhere there is a crisis of confidence inside newsrooms caused by crumbling levels of commitment to ethics, a lowering of the status of journalistic work and a pervasive lack of transparency over advertising, ownership and corporate and political affiliations. Government control over lucrative state advertising, which is often allocated to media according to their political bias, remains widespread. At the same time, the elimination in most countries of the invisible wall separating editorial and advertising has created a surge of so-called “native advertising,” hidden advertorials and paid-for journalism. It was this conflict of interest that plunged the crisis-prone UK press into a new bout of handwringing in February 2015 when Peter Oborne, a leading political journalist, quit his job at the Daily Telegraph accusing the management of censoring stories about HSBC bank, a leading advertiser caught up in a tax scandal. These reports tell essentially the same story of deep cuts in editorial investment, undue pressure on newsrooms, and media increasingly dependent upon atypical models of ownership in which media have become the trophy possessions of powerful figures and institutions in pursuit of wider corporate and political objectives." (Introduction, page iii-iv) more

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Arabische Medien
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Carola Richter, Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)

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 ... more

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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)

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 ... more

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt

Sherif Mansour

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 16 pp.

"Egypt’s plummeting press freedom is in part a result of the many ways in which the state can put pressure on independent media under Egyptian law. While the January 2014 constitution contains clear protections for the media (including, under Article 71, bans on censorship and surveillance), many ... more

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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition

Bill Sweeney (ed.)

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Wiley (2015), 256 pp.

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Panorama des médias en ligne: Algérie, Égypte, Jordanie, Liban, Maroc, Palestine, Syrie, Tunisie

Laurent Giacobino

Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2015), 78 pp.

"La présente étude, menée entre juillet 2014 et janvier 2015, est basée sur plus de 45 entretiens approfondis, sur 130 candidatures reçues par CFI dans le cadre de sa compétition EBTICAR-Média1, soutenue par l’U.E., ainsi que sur l’analyse de nombreux rapports, articles et essais. Cette � ... more

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Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition?

Edward Webb

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), x, 112 pp.

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Medien und Minderheiten in arabischen Ländern

Sebastian Elässer, Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Kristin Pfeifer

In: Arabische Medien

Carola Richter; Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)

Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), pp. 99-116

"Anhand von drei Beispielen, den Kopten in Ägypten, den Imazighen in Marokko und den Kurden im Irak dokumentieren die Autoren dieses Kapitels exemplarisch, wie unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsgruppen versuchen, durch eigene Medien ihre kulturelle, gesellschaftliche und politische Identität zu wahren ... more

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Media, Revolution and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising

Abdalla F. Hassan

London: Tauris;Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 276 pp.

"The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country's democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president's ... more

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Standards of Journalism Education: An International Comparative Study in the Context of Media and Development

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)

Leipzig; Bonn: Vistas;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2015), 265 pp.

"Training and educating of journalists around the world with the aim of enhancing free and independent media has been a major field of media development cooperation for decades. Nevertheless, the state of scientific research in this area remains limited, specifically with regard to the status quo of ... more

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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation

Chris Paterson (ed.)

London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.

"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for ... more

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Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara (ed.)

London: Routledge (2015), xi, 120 pp.

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Medienfreiheit in Ägypten: Zum journalistischen Arbeiten in Ägypten nach der Arabischen Revolution

Judith Jäger, Christoph Resch (eds.)

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2015), 217 pp.

"Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der beunruhigenden Lage der ägyptischen Medien. Er beschreibt Gleichschaltung und Zensur, er berichtet von Einschüchterungsversuchen der al-Sisi-, aber auch der Mursi-Regierung gegenüber in- und ausländischen Pressevertretern. Journalistinnen und Journalisten wu ... more

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Egyptian Media Under Transition: In the Name of the Regime… in the Name of the People?

Fatima El-Issawi

London: Polis, London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications (media@LSE) (2014), 90 pp.

"Self-censorship habits are entrenched in the practices of Egyptian journalists, who largely perceive their role as servants of political masters. Even though the debate on reforming media was high on the agenda during the time of the revolution, this subservient perception did not change. Journalis ... more

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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 ... more

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Arab TV-Audiences: Negotiating Religion and Identity

Ehab Galal (ed.)

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 ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

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 ... more

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Global Citizenship in a Digital World

Sherri Hope Culver, Paulette Kerr (eds.)

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 ... more

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