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Television Policies
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Social Media Landscapes
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Media Law & Regulation: Constitutional Law
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Sharia, Fatwas
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Failures, Mistakes, Shortcomings: Experiences & Learnings
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South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
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Political Parties
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After the Revolution: Libyan and Tunisian Media Through the People’s Eyes
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 60 pp.
"Libya’s contested and, at times, chaotic political scene is reflected in its media, which represents a range of political and vested interests, sparking narrative and counter narrative. Ultimately, it has left people frustrated that they cannot access the information that they need. In Tunisia, t
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Assessment of Media Legislation in Libya
MedMedia;European Union (2015), 22 pp.
"Libya has no history of free and independent media, and this has not changed post-revolution. As it is therefore not possible to conduct a proper analysis of media legislation in the country, this report focuses on the subject in more general terms." (Executive summary)
Assessment of the Media Development Sector in the Southern Mediterranean Region
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MedMedia;European Union (2015), 32 pp.
"This research study examines and assesses the progress of media development work in the Southern Mediterranean region in the wake of the Arab Spring. It highlights the challenges faced by international agencies and presents examples of effective, innovative interventions that could help to shape be
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Wiley (2015), 256 pp.
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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Libyan Television and its Influence on the Security Sector
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2015), 8 pp.
"The Libyan security landscape is broadly divided into two camps: revolutionary-Islamist and institutionalist-conservative. The country’s resurgent media sector is split along similar lines. This polarization and related partistan reporting reinforce polarization among security sector actors and t
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War on the Media: Journalists Under Attack in Libya
Human Rights Watch (2015), 50 pp.
"This report documents attacks against journalists and the offices and facilities of media outlets since the 2011 uprising, including threats, assaults, kidnappings, and killings and addresses the failure of the government to protect journalists and the media, and hold perpetrators of attacks on the
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After the Arab Uprisings: The Prospects for a Media That Serves the Public
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 37 pp.
"This briefing suggests that national broadcasters may have the potential to help to bridge social divides, if they can be reformed to serve the interests of the public rather than the state. In addition to their extensive infrastructure and reach, these institutions also have a cultural standing th
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Arabische Medien
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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
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Bravery or Bravado? The Protection of News Providers in Armed Conflict
Brill (2015), xviii, 450 pp.
"During the last decade, the image of war correspondents in the news has shifted dramatically. Reports are no longer full of cheerleading stories of embedded journalists. Instead, stories of war reporters being attacked, kidnapped or injured prevail. Sadly, the former heroic witnesses to war have be
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Filtering revolution: Reporting bias in international newspaper coverage of the Libyan civil war
Journal of Peace Research, volume 52, issue 3 (2015), pp. 384-400
"Reporting bias – the media's tendency to systematically underreport or overreport certain types of events – is a persistent problem for participants and observers of armed conflict. We argue that the nature of reporting bias depends on how news organizations navigate the political context in wh
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Social Media in Syria's Uprising and Post-Revolution Libya: An Analysis of Activists' and Blogger's Online Engagement
Arab Media & Society, issue 19 (2014), 21 pp.
"Masudul Biswas and Carrie Sipes perform a comparative content analysis of Twitter and Facebook posts from a sample of Syrian and Libyan activist groups. By considering online content in the context of post-revolution Libya and the continuing upheaval in Syria, the authors shed new light on online a
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Social Media and the Politics of Reportage: The 'Arab Spring'
Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xii, 141 pp.
"Social Media and the Politics of Reportage explores the journalistic challenges, issues and opportunities that have risen as a result of social media increasingly being used as a form of crisis reporting within the field of global journalism, with a focus on the protests during the 'Arab Spring'."
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After the Revolution: Libyan and Tunisian Media Through the People’s Eyes
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 60 pp.
"Libyans and Tunisians have grown weary of coverage that represents the interests of those who run or fund the channels and consequently place little trust in the media. Perhaps as a result of these limitations, the audiences are savvy and discerning consumers who “shop around” to access informa
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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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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls
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
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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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Rebels with a Pen: Observations on the Newly Emerging Media Landscape in Libya
Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (2013), pp. 191-210
"This article explores the emergence of a new landscape of local print and broadcast media in revolutionary Libya that is both the result of the dramatic changes that the country has undergone and one of their facilitators. This article analyses the political impact of these new forms of media durin
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Discovering the Libyan Youth Movement’s Identity Through Facebook
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 12, issue 1 (2013), 15 pp.
"This study demonstrates that critical discourse analysis can be used to quickly discern the identity of a political actor and make accurate predictions about that actor’s intentions and goals, even in the context of a revolution. This study’s authors used critical discourse analysis to empirica
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