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Arabischer Frühling und deutsches Islambild: Bildwandel durch ein Medienereignis?

Kai Hafez (ed.)
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2013), 148 pp.
"Die Studie eines Autorenteams der Universität Erfurt geht der Frage nach, ob der "Arabische Frühling" als großes Medienereignis in der Lage war, eingefahrene journalistische Nachrichtenroutinen der deutschen Presse aufzubrechen und zu verändern. Wurde das Islambild differenziert oder wurde es l ... more
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You Say You Want a Revolution... Then What? The Challenges of Media Training in Post-Qaddafi Libya

Carolyn Robinson
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 28 pp.
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Global Right to Information Update: An Analysis by Region

Lydia Medland, Toby Mendel (eds.)
Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) (2013), 91 pp.
"The Update reveals that the challenges faced by advocates, and the campaigning tactics used in each region, are at times remarkably similar. National civil society coalitions, for example, are mentioned by many authors as having made a central contribution to campaigns. In other cases, challenges d ... more
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Framing Bouazizi: ‘White Lies’, Hybrid Network, and Collective/connective Action in the 2010–11 Tunisian Uprising

Merlyna Lim
Journalism, volume 14, issue 7 (2013), pp. 921-941
"By delving into the detailed account of the Tunisian uprising, this article offers an explanation that sets the 2010 uprising apart from its precursors. The 2010 uprising was successful because activists successfully managed to bridge geographical and class divides as well as to converge offline an ... more
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Fragile States: The Role of Media and Communication

James Deane
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 27 pp.
"This briefing examines how current media trends are affecting state and societal fragility, both positively and negatively, and argues that the role of a free and plural media should be prioritised rather than marginalised in fragile states policy. The paper provides case studies on the role and im ... more
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After the Green Movement: Internet Controls in Iran, 2009-2012

Matthew Carrieri, Saad Omar Khan
Opennet Initiative (2013), 41 pp.
"Since the “Green Movement” protests in 2009, the Iranian regime has adopted increasingly complex surveillance and monitoring techniques, complementing technical filtration tools with legal frameworks and information manipulation. These techniques of control overlap: technical filtering is reinf ... more
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2013 Social Media Guidebook

Christian Möller, Mike Stone (eds.)
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2013), 153 pp.
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Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Lebanon and Palestine

Dina Matar, Zahera Harb (eds.)
London; New York: Tauris (2013), x, 276 pp.
"The starting point of this innovative book is that it is unsatisfactory either to consider conflict within a singular concept or alternatively to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique; Narrating Conflict in the Middle East explores another path to addressing long-term conflict. The ... more
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The Media Landscape in 54 Countries: Country Profiles from the 2011 and 2012 UIS Pilot Surveys

Paris: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), 155 pp.
"The current UIS Questionnaire on Media Statistics provides information for three UNESCO frameworks, namely the Media and Information Literacy Framework, the Media Development Indicators Framework and the Framework for Cultural Statistics. The questionnaire collects data for reporting global progres ... more
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Outside In: The Practices and Perceptions of Iranian Diaspora Journalists

Magdalena Wojcieszak, Amy Brouillette, Briar Smith
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication’s Iran Media Program (2013), 31 pp.
"Our findings are based on responses to an online questionnaire completed by 69 Iranian journalists living and working outside Iran. A majority of respondents surveyed left Iran after 2005 and work as journalists for online media outlets [...] Our research indicates that Iranian journalists living a ... more
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Citizens’ Radio in North Africa and the Middle East: Meaningful Change Through Citizen Empowerment? An Experience from Tunis

Stefanie Groth
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), 19 pp.
"Fostering a participatory political culture is a crucial part of the on-going transformation processes which we witness across North African and Middle Eastern countries since 2011. This paper considers which role participatory communication plays in these processes, by examining the potential of c ... more
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Transitional Justice: A Handbook for Journalists, Citizens and Activists

London; The Hague; Washington, DC: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2013), 32 pp.
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Use with Care: A Reporter's Glossary of Loaded Language in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2013), 59 pp.
"This is a guide of sorts, presenting a collection of terms used on both sides, which in some contexts may be regarded as loaded or biased, or whose meaning is often misunderstood, or which can be misleading. These are words the use of which is liable to give away the reporter’s communal identity ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 240 pp.
"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a ... more
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Wir sind die Medien: Internet und politischer Wandel in Iran

Marcus Michaelsen
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2013), 350 pp.
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Libya Media Assessment: One Year Later. An Assessment of the Media Landscape and Consumption Patterns

Clara Tardy
Altai Consulting; Foreign & Commonwealth Office (2013), 102 pp.
"The overall objective of the research is to provide the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and its Libyan Government counterparts with an updated assessment of the Libyan media landscape that measures consumption habits, perceptions of trust towards certain outlets, and attitudes towards government invo ... more
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Mediensysteme im internationalen Vergleich

Barbara Thomaß (ed.)
Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed. (2013), 378 pp.
"Das in zweiter Auflage überarbeitete Lehrbuch führt konsistent und verständlich in Theorie, Methodik und Gegenstandsbereiche der international vergleichenden Mediensystemforschung ein. Es macht mit deren Fragestellungen vertraut und arbeitet die für den Vergleich relevanten Strukturelemente her ... more
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Transformations in Egyptian Journalism

Naomi Sakr
London; Oxford: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xviii, 109 pp.
"Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of actio ... more
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Prácticas y consumos mediático-culturales del colectivo marroquí en España

Amparo Huertas, Yolanda Martínez, Jordi Moreras
Madrid: Fundación Alternativas, Observatorio de Cultura y Comunicación (2013), 68 pp.
"Este informe analiza las prácticas y consumos mediático-culturales del colectivo marroquí en España, uno de los más numerosos y con un evidente grado de asentamiento como resultado de un ciclo migratorio que ya acumula más de cuatro décadas. Las condiciones objetivas que muestran tal grado d ... more
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts

Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.