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Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Senthan Selvarajah (eds.)
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.
"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro ... more
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Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present

Johannes Paulmann (ed.)
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), viii, 305 pp.
"From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and ... more
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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.
"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the ... more
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Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
Deep Insights

Beatrice Dernbach, Beate Illg (eds.)
Manipal, Kanartaka: Manipal Universal Press (2019), vi, 250 pp.
"This book provides an international perspective on the different aspects of journalism – the situation in which journalists work, their working conditions, educational backgrounds, struggles and successes. It is aimed at an international public interested in the field of journalism and freedom of ... more
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Journalism in Libya: A Cross-Media Perspective

Marco Di Donato, Cristina Stefanelli (eds.)
Rome: Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED); PAgES Post-Crisis Journalism in Post-Crisis Libya (2019), 78 pp.
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Trust in the Media

Ipsos (2019), 48 pp.
"People across 27 countries are divided on whether they trust traditional media (magazines and newspapers, TV and radio). These sources are equally trusted as they are distrusted. However, levels of trust in media sources vary greatly at the country level. Trust in traditional media is perceived to ... more
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Satire and Protest: The Middle East Through Egyptian Cartoons

Nirvana El Saied
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 23 pp.
"This paper aims at examining how Egyptian popular culture shapes perception of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict through the widespread medium of political cartoons. The paper examines cartoons published in Egyptian newspapers after the American president, Donald Trump, announced in 2017 that th ... more
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Social Media in Egypt: Impacts on Civil Society, Violent Extremism & Government Control

Sabine Shyre
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 7 pp.
"Throughout this policy brief, we vet the use of social media in a major Middle Eastern country - Egypt - where the youth took to the streets to express frustrations that lasted almost a lifetime. While social media helped topple autocratic dictator, Hosni Mubarak, it played the role of Pandora’s ... more
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A Typology of the Islamic State's Social Media Distribution Network

Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 453-482
"The Islamic State's media strategy allows for a message that has been crafted by a handful of IS propaganda agents to be disseminated by a few primary distributors, who in turn can reach thousands of unaffiliated sympathizers, and therefore millions of Twitter users. By means of a conclusion, this ... more
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Screen Media for Arab and European Children: Policy and Production Encounters in the Multiplatform Era

Naomi Sakr, Jeanette Steemers
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), ix, 142 pp.
"This book addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children's screen contents across the Arab region and Europe. Taking account of recent disruptive shifts in geopolitics that call for new thinking about how children's media policy and production ... more
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Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent

Alan MacLeod (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2019), x, 171 pp.
"Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself. 2018 ... more
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Supporting Safety of Journalists in Iraq: An Assessment Based on UNESCO's Journalists' Safety Indicators

Ibrahim Al Saraji
Paris: UNESCO; International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2019), 71 pp.
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Arab Millennials’ Articulation of Identity in Cyberspace: A Study of Three MENA YouTubers

Mohammad Ayish, Abeer Al-Najjar
Arab Media & Society, issue 27 (2019), pp. 26-40
"This study investigates how three young Arab influencers negotiate their identities in cyberspace. Abdallah Al Maghlouth, Abdulrahman Mohammed, and Laila Hzaineh were selected for this study because they were listed among the top MENA influencers by the Arab Social Media Summit (2015) or by Stepfee ... more
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Road to 2030: Access to Information in the Driver’s Seat

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Free Press Unlimited; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2019), 68 pp.
"Spotlight report on the state of public access to information in Canada, Indonesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Ukraine prepared for the 2019 cycle of the Voluntary National Reviews and the 2019 UN High Level Political Forum." (Subtitle)
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Innovative Arab Media and the New Outlines of Citizenship: A Collaborative Vision Builds Stronger Journalism Across the Region

Lina Attalah
New York: Century Foundation (2019), 15 pp.
"In this report, I have provided a glimpse of the ways in which innovative media outlets act as political agents in their current contexts, through their expressed positions, their content, and the forms in which they publish. Further work is needed to more fully describe the editorial sensibilities ... more
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Politics and Social Media in the Middle East and North Africa: Trends and Trust in Online Information

Jason Wee, Sophie Li
Arab Barometer (2019), 14 pp.
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Red Death and Black Life: Media, Martyrdom and Shame

Esha Momeni
Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 177-195
"Most of Iran’s urban population experienced the war with Iraq (1980–1988) through the burden of privation and the fear of possible airstrikes. Thus, state-produced media on national television became the main apparatus through which they connected their daily lives to the national conflict. Rav ... more
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey

Everette E. Dennis, Justin D. Martin, Fouad Hassan
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2019), 104 pp.
"This 2019 report pays special attention to social media and social media influencers even as it focuses heavily on news media. As always, we look at media use by platform and content while also honing in both generally and in detail on the use of the internet. As a member of the World Internet Proj ... more
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Analysing Refugee-Host Community Narratives on Social Media in Lebanon

Jacob Lefton, Maude Morrison, Mira El Mawla, Helena Puig Larrauri
UNDP (2019), 36 pp.
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ISIS Media

Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2019), 45 pp.