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Fake news: Acceptance by demographics and culture on social media

Giselle Rampersad, Turki Althiyabi
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, volume 17, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-11
"Fake news has trumped up attention across cultures from the United States Elections to the Arab Spring. While political marketers have long used the language of fear and persuasion in their messaging, social media has intensified its impact. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence ... more
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Journalism and the Challenge of Democracy in Transitional Countries: African Experiences

Jacob Høigilt, Kjetil Selvik (eds.)
International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 7 (2020), pp. 591-681
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Jemen: Der vergessene Krieg

Said AlDailami
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 261 pp.
"Said AlDailami untersucht die tiefen Konfliktlinien entlang von konfessionellen, regionalen und tribalen Zugehörigkeiten sowie wirtschaftlichen Interessen, um auszuloten, wie und wann Frieden möglich werden könnte. Zahlreiche äußere Mächte – wie Saudi-Arabien, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emi ... more
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Les réseaux sociaux: Une arme à double tranchant pour les mouvements sociaux et leur lutte contre le "pouvoir" en Algérie

Laurence Thieux
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean (2020), 34 pp.
"En Algérie, le poids des réseaux sociaux dans le renouvellement de l’engagement citoyen dans la vie politique et l’impact des mobilisations citoyennes sur le paysage politique sont étroitement liés à l’absence d’un environnement favorable à toute autre forme d’association et d’exp ... more
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A Gender Analysis of the Media Landscape in Iraq

Aida Kaisy
Washington, DC; London: Internews (2020), 35 pp.
"Corrupt practices, political financing and institutionalised patriarchal systems have seen the media fail to provide equitable coverage of women’s issues or indeed include women as decision-makers organisationally. Both the audience and media stakeholders are acutely aware of the lack of ethical ... more
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Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment

William G. Christie, Belinha S. De Abreu (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2020), 338 pp.
"This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement. T ... more
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Egypt’s Media System: Historic Legacies and Blocked Potentials for Independent Media

Hanan Badr
Publizistik, volume 65, issue 1 (2020), pp. 63-79
"The relevance of new digital media in Egypt had increased in the past 15 years. Many scholars and commentators attribute the Tahrir Revolution in 2011 directly to the rise of the Internet, as it was widely called Facebook Revolution. However, the article maintains that this is a simplified view of ... more
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Digital Media, Young Adults, and Religion: An International Perspective

Marcus Moberg, Sofia Sjö (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xi, 179 pp.
"Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the international research project Young Adults and Rel ... more
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Implementation Report on Projects, Part II: Projects Approved by the 62nd Meeting of the IPDC Bureau (May 2018) and Implemented in 2018-2019

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 243 pp.
"This document reports on the implementation of projects approved by the 62nd meeting of the IPDC Bureau (May 2018) and implemented in 2018-2019. It is meant for the information of the IPDC Bureau Members and donors." (Page 1)
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Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri

Victoria Brittain
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxxii, 144 pp.
"This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Le ... more
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Criminal Prosecutions of Online Speech: Outdated and Flawed Laws Used to Restrict Speech in Tunisia

London: Amnesty International (2020), 15 pp.
"An increasing number of prosecutions of bloggers and Facebook users have taken place in relation to their peaceful expression online. They have been investigated or charged or sometimes sentenced on criminal charges including defamation, insulting state institutions and “harming” others through ... more
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Arab Resistance in the diaspora: Comparing the Saudi dissident and the Egyptian whistleblower

Sahar Khamis, Randall Fowler
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 13, issue 1 (2020), pp. 31-49
"While much research on Arab and Muslim diasporas in the West focuses on the War(s) on Terror, in this article, we explore how two particular diasporic groups, Egyptian and Saudi activists, work to shape public perceptions of the authoritarian regimes in their countries of origin. Contextualizing th ... more
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Watching Television While Forcibly Displaced: Syrian Refugees as Participant Audiences

Katty Alhayek
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2020), pp. 8-28
"In this article, I explore how Syrian refugees and internally displaced people are using social media to reshape interpretations of their own status through their engagement with quality TV texts that tackle the refugee crisis. I focus on the discourse surrounding the Syrian Television Drama series ... more
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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden

welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33
"Viele Filme aus Ländern in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika befassen sich phantasievoll mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Unter welchen Bedingungen arbeiten Regisseurinnen in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien? Warum sind afrikanische Religionen und Riten ein Thema im jungen nigerianischen Kino? Und wie g ... more
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Making Civic Space Resilient

Cordaid; Hivos (2020), 31 pp.
"The 10 countries included in this paper all show specific characteristics and contexts but also show similar barriers. Identifying shared characteristics will facilitate the development of shared approaches to deal with shrinking space. Don’t work in silos! It’s (also) about upholding the law: ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
Deep Insights

Alan Finlay et al.
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2020), 268 pp.
"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose ... more
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Arabic Media Dictionary

El Mustapha Lahlali
London; New York: Routledge (2019), viii, 423 pp.
"This dictionary offers a wide range of Arabic media entries, which have been translated and contextualised in authentic Arabic media texts, some of which have been extracted from Arabic newspapers and online Arabic media sources. Containing more than 6,500 entries with sample sentences, this dictio ... more
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Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents

Mehita Iqani, Fernando Resende
London et al.: Routledge (2019), xvi, 207 pp.
"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and con ... more
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Aufbruch im Silicon Wadi

Claudia Mende
welt-sichten, issue 12 (2019), pp. 61-63
"In der jordanischen Hauptstadt Amman blühen digitale Start-ups. Die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit lindert das kaum. Doch junge Leute bringen damit neue Ideen in Jordaniens Geschäftswelt." (Seite 61)
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Médiations et migrations

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 308 pp.
"Le phénomène migratoire, engendré tantôt par les guerres et les crises politiques et tantôt par des situations économiques difficiles, occupe actuellement le devant de la scène médiatique et provoque le débat politique sur les deux rives de la Méditerranée. Une vingtaine d'auteurs se son ... more