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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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The Arab World: The Role of Media in the Arab World's Transformation Process

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)
Berlin: Vistas (2013), 286 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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Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution

Niki Akhavan
New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2013), viii, 149 pp.
"Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the importance of treating the Internet as both a site and product of cultural p ... more
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Rebels with a Pen: Observations on the Newly Emerging Media Landscape in Libya

Anja Wollenberg, Jason Pack
Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (2013), pp. 191-210
"This article explores the emergence of a new landscape of local print and broadcast media in revolutionary Libya that is both the result of the dramatic changes that the country has undergone and one of their facilitators. This article analyses the political impact of these new forms of media durin ... more
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Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya Framing of the Israel–Palestine Conflict During War and Calm Periods

Mohamad Hamas Elmasry, Alaa El Shamy, Peter Manning, Andrew Mills, Philip J. Auter
International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 8 (2013), pp. 750-768
"This framing study compares Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya coverage of the Israel–Palestine conflict during the 2008/2009 Gaza conflict and one year later, during a period of calm. Findings suggest that both networks used framing mechanisms to highlight Palestinian perspectives over Israeli ones and f ... more
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The History of the Book in the Muslim World

Geoffrey Roper
In: The Book: A Global History
Michael F. Suarez, H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 524-552
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Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue

Ulla Carlsson, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media; Nordicom; UNITWIN Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (2013), 416 pp.
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Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism

Mohammed El-Nawawy, Sahar Khamis
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), viii, 241 pp.
"This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution." (Publishe ... more
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New Directions of Internet Activism in Egypt

Randa Aboubakr
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 38, issue 3 (2013), pp. 251-267
"Research on new media has always highlighted the assumption that in authoritarian contexts, communication technologies provide political activists with ampler space than available in the heavily policed physical world. However, social and political changes taking place throughout Egypt and the Arab ... more
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Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity

Omar Al-Ghazzi
Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601
"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1 ... more
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"A Life-Threatening Career": Attacks on Journalists Under Yemen’s New Government

Belkis Wille
Human Rights Watch (2013), 45 pp.
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Art and Networks: The National Film School of Denmark's "Middle East Project"

Mette Hjort
In: The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas
Mette Hjort (ed.)
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), pp. 125-150
"Seen from the perspective of film directors in the Middle East, the NFSD‘s Middle East Project makes a clear contribution in a number of areas: focusing on documentary flimmaking, it provides opportunities for flimmakers from the region to engage with realities that are important to them, but per ... more
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Le cyberactivisme au Maghreb et dans le monde arabe

Sihem Najar (dir.)
Tunis; Paris: Institut de la Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC); Karthala (2013), 269 pp.
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Global Media Ethics: Problems and Perspectives

Stephen J. A. Ward (ed.)
Walden, Mass.; Oxford: Wiley Blackwell (2013), 326 pp.
"Through case studies, analysis of emerging practices, and theoretical discussion, a team of leading journalism and communication experts investigate the impact of major global trends on responsible journalism and lead readers to better understand changes in media ethics. Chapters look at how these ... more
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Social Media and Journalism in Africa

African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-122
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The US Influence in Shaping Iraq’s Sectarian Media

Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi
International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 4 (2013), pp. 374-391
"After the Anglo-American invasion, the US neo-conservative administration established the Iraqi Governing Council in July 2003, which included 25 members selected for their ethnic and religious origins; it was the most obvious sign of the US political separatist strategy. As a result of the new pol ... 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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Global eBook: A Report on Market Trends and Developments

Rüdiger Wischenbart
Carlo Carrenho; Veronika Licher; Miha Kovac; Vinutha Mallya (contrib.)
O'Reilly, revised and updated ed. (2013), 111 pp.
"The report offers a status on the US and UK markets as well as close ups on ebook markets as they take shape across Europe, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and in the Arab world. Thematic chapters focus on critical policy debates and on key driving forces, notably ebook bestsellers and pricing strate ... more
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News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries

Barrie Gunter, Roger Dickinson (eds.)
New York; London: Bloomsbury (2013), viii, 199 pp.
"News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries is based on ongoing research at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, and has investigated the rapidly changing nature of the news media in Arab countries. They have investigated the role of newspape ... more