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Global Citizenship in a Digital World

Sherri Hope Culver, Paulette Kerr (eds.)
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media; Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.
"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation ... more
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Al-Jazeera and the Arab Uprisings: The Language of Images and a Medium's Stancetaking

Assem Nasr
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 7, issue 4 (2014), pp. 397-414
"This study (a) investigates the complex set of emergent meanings from Al-Jazeera's visual narratives about itself, and (b) analyzes how Al-Jazeera's visual texts articulate a broader set of nationalist meanings concerning Qatar, its home country. Rather than a content analysis of language, visual e ... more
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Inhabiting Two Worlds: The Role of News in the Lives of Jewish and Arab Children and Youth in Israel

Dafna Lemish, Rotem Pick-Alony
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 2 (2014), pp. 128-151
"This study investigated the role of the news media in the lives of Jewish and Arab children in Israel. A survey of 1657 children (ages 8–18), including analysis of open-ended questions, reveals that Jewish and Arab children in Israel live in two different worlds of news. They are exposed to diffe ... more
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The Role of Mass Media in Building Perceptions of EU-GCC Relations and Related Impacts

Fatma Al Araimi, Cinzia Bianco
Sharaka (2014), 20 pp.
"This paper addresses the way the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region is presented in the EU media and vice versa, in a time in which perceptions and misperceptions could influence negatively the consistent flows of international investments that are instrumental to the diversification of the Gulf ... more
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From the Field: Building on Area Studies Expertise – The Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers (AREACORE)

Jassim M. Jaber, Carola Richter
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2014), 6 pp.
"This short article introduces the new Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers (AREACORE) as the manifestation of the necessity to strengthen area expertise in communication studies. The reasons for founding this association fit into the broader framework of de-westernizati ... more
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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations

Claudia Padovani, Andrew Calabrese (eds.)
Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xix, 358 pp.
"Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communic ... more
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Flags and Barriers: Essays on Reporting from Israel and Palestine

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2014), 35 pp.
"In the following short essays, journalists from Palestine and Israel were asked to reflect on how local media covers the conflict and other news. These pieces have been organized here into four broad sections. The first chapter explores different ways in which the news is skewed, especially Israeli ... more
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Russian News Media Coverage of the Syrian Conflict: A Content Analysis Report

Kristine Anderson, Heather Hughes
Syria Research and Evaluation Organization (SREO) (2014), 24 pp.
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Assessment of Media Development in Palestine: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Mohammed Hussein Abu Arqoub et al.
Paris: UNESCO (2014), 114 pp.
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High Drama on the High Seas: Peace Versus War Journalism Framing of an Israeli/Palestinian-Related Incident

Shahira Fahmy, Britain Eakin
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 1 (2014), pp. 86-105
"A review of the literature indicates a plethora of studies examining the coverage of Middle Eastern conflicts, but hardly any research has been explicitly framed as being developed from a peace/war journalism perspective. The current study, therefore, represents a substantive effort to remedy this ... more
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Social Media in Syria's Uprising and Post-Revolution Libya: An Analysis of Activists' and Blogger's Online Engagement

Masudul Biswas, Carrie Sipes
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 ... more
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Contemporary Media Use in Egypt

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 2 pp.
"Television viewing is ubiquitous in Egypt and by far the most common source of information for its residents. Nearly all (98.8%) Egyptians have a working television in their home, while just 37.9% of Egyptians have a radio. The percentage of Egyptians with a radio in their household is down signifi ... more
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Ägyptische Blogs und ihre Bedeutung bei der Schaffung einer Gegenöffentlichkeit im Arabischen Frühling

Marco Rustemeyer
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2014), 129 pp.
"Das Buch konzentriert sich auf den Aspekt des möglichen Einsatzes von Blogs zur Schaffung einer Gegenöffentlichkeit. Dazu werden englischsprachige, ägyptische Blogs untersucht, die während der Revolte gegen das Mubarak-Regime erstellt wurden. Zentral ist dabei die Frage, ob und wie ägyptische ... more
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Mass Communication in Israel: Nationalism, Globalization, and Segmentation

Oren Soffer
Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2014), 238 pp.
"Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing that, in comparison to other countries, the Israeli case is unique. It explores the roots and evolut ... more
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The Mobile Economy Arab States

London: GSMA (2014), 72 pp.
"Mobile has scaled dramatically over recent years in the Arab States. The region’s mobile industry is one of the fastest growing globally, with over half of the population having subscribed to a mobile service at the end of 2013. This figure is forecast to reach almost 60% of the population by 202 ... more
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Journalists and Media Accountability: An International Study of News People in the Digital Age

Susanne Fengler, Colin Porlezza, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Tobias Eberwein (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), vii, 313 pp.
"Do existing structures of media accountability - such as press councils, codes of ethics, and ombudspersons - suffice, or do we urgently need new instruments and initiatives in today's converging media world? These questions were tackled in an international survey of 1,800 journalists in twelve Eur ... more
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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies

Ineke Buskens, Anne Webb (eds.)
London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Vol. 2

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2014), xii, 406 pp.
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Puppetry for All Times: Papers Presented at the Bali Puppetry Seminar 2013

Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof (ed.)
Singapore: Patridge (2014), 389 pp.
"The Puppetry for All Times Seminar held in September of 2013 in Ubud, Bali, was one of the most enchanting of events of its kind held anywhere in recent years. Its success revolved around the fantastic locale, the overwhelming response from performers as well as the paper presenters, and the genero ... more
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Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood

Steven Livingston, Gregor Walter-Drop (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp.
"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone ... more