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News Media Landscape in a Fragile State: Professional Ethics Perceptions in a Post-Ba'athist Iraq

Jeannine E. Relly, Margaret Zanger, Shahira Fahmy
Mass Communication & Society, volume 18, issue 4 (2015), pp. 471-497
"During the years of Ba'athist dictator Saddam Hussein, media personnel were under tight control and tortured or executed when they strayed from the government line. In the decade following the fall of the Ba'athist regime, thousands of Iraqi journalists were trained in liberal democratic profession ... more
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Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia

Mohamed Zayani
New York: Oxford University Press (2015), xv, 275 pp.
"How is the adoption of digital media in the Arab world affecting the relationship between the state and its subjects? What new forms of online engagement and strategies of resistance have emerged from the aspirations of digitally empowered citizens? This book tells the compelling story of the concu ... 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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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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Hearing Community Radio Listeners: A Storytelling Approach for Community Media Audience Research

Gretchen King
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 12, issue 2 (2015), pp. 121-146
"This article draws on the first extensive study of community radio audiences in the Middle East to contribute new insights about documenting the impacts of community radio, and the evaluative mechanisms that should be in place for non-profit, community media to better fulfill their mission to serve ... more
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Violations Against Female Journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Ghazi Bani Odeh
Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2015), 25 pp.
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Assessment of Media Legislation in Jordan

Fabio del Alisal
MedMedia; European Union (2015), 27 pp.
"Legal changes are crucial to the development of a media capable of playing a democratic role in Jordan. This includes the lifting of licensing requirements, allowing full access to information and installing independent industry regulators." (Recommendations)
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Media Scene: Middle East (Focus on UAE & KSA)

Paris: Publicitas (2015), 38 slides
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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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Political Parody and Satire as Subversive Speech in the Global Digital Sphere

Sangeet Kumar, Kirk Combe (eds.)
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 3 (2015), pp. 211-311
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
Deep Insights

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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Online Arab Spring: Social Media and Fundamental Change

Reza Jamali
Waltham, MA: Chandos Publishing; Elsevier (2015), xvi, 91 pp.
"What is the role of social media on fundamental change in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Online Arab Spring responds to this question, considering five countries: Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia, along with additional examples. The book asks why the penetration rate fo ... more
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Facebook, Twitter & Co.: Die politische Rolle sozialer Netzwerkmedien

Maria Röder-Tzellos
In: Arabische Medien
Carola Richter, Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)
Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), pp. 63-74
"Mit Blick auf die Rolle sozialer Netzwerkmedien in arabischen Gesellschaften lässt sich resümierend festhalten, dass durch deren vielfältige Nutzungsmöglichkeiten während Protestphasen und unter den restriktiven Bedingungen autoritärer Herrschaft übergreifende bürgerschaftliche Identitäten ... more
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The World Through Picture Books: Librarians’ Favourite Books from Their Country

Annie Everall, Viviana Quinones (eds.)
The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2nd ed. (2015), 218 pp.
"We are very happy to publish the second edition of The World through Picture Books, enriched with sixteen new annotated lists. This new edition proves even more the very enthusiastic, skilled participation of librarians and the great success of this international programme. The programme deals with ... more
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Headlines from the Holy Land: Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

James Rodgers
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), x, 215 pp.
"Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people across the world. Based on new archive research and original interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely contested region exerts such a pull ov ... more
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In the Name of God: Faith-Based Internet Censorship in Majority Muslim Countries

Helmi Noman
In: Routledge Handbook of Media Law
Monroe E. Price, Stefaan Verhulst, Libby Morgan (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 253-268
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Assessment of Media Legislation in Algeria

José Alberto Azeredo
MedMedia; European Union (2015), 22 pp.
"Every effort should be made to encourage Algeria to come into line with global standards on press freedom, market access and media ownership. Exchange of good practice, EU strategies and wider promotion of local broadcasting content can all create the opportunity to influence change in Algeria." (R ... more
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Im Gegenlicht: Gesellschaftskritik im Spielfilm

iz3w, issue 384 (2015), pp. 17-40
"Gerade in Ländern des Globalen Südens gibt es eine beeindruckende Vielfalt kritischer Spielfilme aller Genres, vom Roadmovie bis zur Groteske. Mal sind sie explizit politisch, mal eher angedeutet und metaphorisch, um die Zensur zu umgehen oder um eindimensionale Interpretationen zu unterlaufen. I ... more
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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 ... more
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Media Freedom is Part of the Solution to the Kurdish Issue: Turkey October 2015

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2015), 21 pp.