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Decolonising knowledge production: The experience of the Syrian Female Journalists Network (SFJN)

Hayma Alyousfi, Rand Sabbagh
Gender & Development, volume 31, issue 2-3 (2023), pp. 457–476
"This article delves into the Syrian Female Journalists Network’s (SFJN) approach to decolonise knowledge production, focusing on a multifaceted deconstructive framework. Through an examination of our analytic and deconstructive process of media language and discourse, our methodology centres on i ... more
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Staatliche Cyberkonflikte: Proxy-Strategien von Autokratien und Demokratien im Vergleich

Kerstin Zettl-Schabath
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 424 pp.
"Welche Rolle spielen nichtstaatliche Akteure, sogenannte "Proxys", in staatlichen Cyberkonflikten? Und wie unterscheidet sich regimetypenspezifisch das (De-)Eskalationsmanagement? Kerstin Zettl-Schabath vergleicht mithilfe eines umfassenden Datensatzes für die Jahre 2000-2019 die staatlichen Cyber ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa
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Susan M. Kilonzo, Ezra Chitando, Joram Tarusarira (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 832 pp.
"This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development ... more
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Évaluation de la couverture médiatique des enjeux économiques et sociaux en Tunisie

Michel Leroy, Sofien Ammar (eds.)
CFI (2023), 82 pp.
"L'information economique et sociale occupe la 3eme position des rubriques favorites, derriere le sport et la sante (la 5e pour les femmes). 65% des sondes declarent la suivre mais seulement 5% des 18-24 ans la suivent « regulierement ». 34 % des 18-24 ans n'ont recours a aucun des medias traditio ... more
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Women's Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change

Carmit Wiesslitz (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 310 pp.
"This book showcases the online activism of women's groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women's struggles on other political and environme ... more
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Mapping the supply of surveillance technologies to Africa: Case studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia

Tony Roberts, Judy Gitahi, Patrick Allam et al.
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2023), 167 pp.
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Discord or Dialogue: Religious Authorities on Twitter in Iraq, Lebanon, and Sudan

Jad Safwan
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 33 pp.
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Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

Marijke de Valck, Antoine Damiens (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xix, 342 pp.
"This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can't happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution ... more
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Monetizing Misogyny: Gendered Disinformation and the Undermining of Women’s Rights and Democracy Globally

Lucina Di Meco
#ShePersisted (2023), 34 pp.
"This research aims to understand the patterns, impact and modus operandi of gendered disinformation campaigns against women in politics in Brazil, Hungary, India, Italy and Tunisia. The case studies explore how gendered disinformation has been used by political movements, and at times the governmen ... more
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Framing Syrian refugees: Examining news framing effects on attitudes toward refugee admissions and anti-immigrant sentiment

Juan Liu
Newspaper Research Journal, volume 44, issue 1 (2023), pp. 6-25
"This study investigates the effects of exposure to news frames on attitudes toward Syrian refugee admissions and anti-immigrant sentiment. Findings show that framing Syrian refugees, ranging from benefits, victims to a security threat did invoke changes of attitudes toward admitting Syrian refugees ... more
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Challenges and Perspectives of Hate Speech Research
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Christian Strippel, Sünje Paasch-Colberg, Martin Emmer, Joachim Trebbe (eds.)
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (2023), 482 pp.
"This book is the result of a conference that could not take place. It is a collection of 26 texts that address and discuss the latest developments in international hate speech research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. This includes case studies from Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria, ... more
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Consultation on media viability in Tunisia

Tunis: Al Khatt; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD); Pamt2; Pencils Consulting; UNESCO (2023), 20 pp.
"[...] a roundtable on media sustainability was organised in collaboration with several stakeholders in the sector, to propose concrete policy recommendations to ensure the sustainability of media organisations. The roundtable brought together local media representatives, media development organisat ... more
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Media Coverage of Religious Diversity and Freedoms: Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan

Jaber Baker
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 19 pp.
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Post-traumatic Mental and Physical Consequences of Frontline Reporting in the MENA Region

Lakhdar Chadli, Farooq Muhammad Haq, Ahmed Okasha, Rafik Attou
Open Public Health Journal, volume 15 (2023), 12 pp.
"Background: A current need in journalistic frontline work is to understand the potential psychological and physical traumatic consequences that may result from on-duty appointments. Journalists are active in frontline zones to report on conflicts, crises, and natural disasters. In the Middle East a ... more
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Arab authorities use digital surveillance to control press freedom: Journalists’ perceptions

Miral Sabry AlAshry
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, volume 25, issue 3 (2023), pp. 250-266
"The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent of digital surveillance by Arab authorities, which face risks and threats of surveillance, and how journalists seek to press freedom by using tools and techniques to communicate securely. Design/methodology/approach: The study used focus group ... more
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Diraya.media—Learning Media Literacy with and From Media Activists

Philipp Seuferling, Ingrid Forsler, Gretchen King, Isabel Löfgren, Farah Saati
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 901-919
"Taking stock of media activist initiatives in the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, this article discusses findings from case study research informing the media education platform "diraya.media." Through participatory methodology, the case studies and the bilingual (Arabic/English) we ... more
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Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research

Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan, Joanna Soraya Abu Zahari (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxviii, 280 pp.
"Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("CommSocMed"). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the exp ... more
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When Children Draw Gods: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approach to Children's Representations of Supernatural Agents

Pierre-Yves Brandt, Zhargalma Dandarova-Robert, Christelle Cocco, Dominique Vinck, Frédéric Darbellay (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2023), viii, 569 pp.
"This open access book explores how children draw God. It looks at children's drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying representations of the divine. In the process, it also contributes to our u ... more
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Violations of Media Freedoms in Palestine: Annual Report 2023

Sherine Al-Khatib
Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2023), 142 pp.
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On crisis journalism in post-Gaddafi Libya

Ali Farfar, Andrea Miconi
Problemi dell'Informazione (Milano), volume 48, issue 2 (2023), pp. 199-223
"The article analyzes the state of journalism in Libya, at the intersection between two phenomena: its transformations due to digitization and the specific role of information in unstable areas – so to speak, the encounter between the crisis of journalism and the crisis journalism. Given the ampli ... more