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Libya Media Transition: Heading to the Unknown

Fatima El-Issawi
London: Polis, London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications (media@LSE) (2013), 74 pp.
"Libyan media’s deficiencies are vast and cover all facets of production. For one, the media industry’s decades-long isolation from the Arab and international markets poses a particular challenge to its reconstruction by comparison to the transitional media industries in Egypt and Tunisia. Media ... 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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Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: A critical analysis

Sahar Khamis, Katherine Vaughn
In: Online Journalism in Africa
Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Jason Whittaker (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2013), 16 pp.
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Social Media and Civic Participation: Literature Review and Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh and Palestinian Territories

Dina Bokai, David Fernando Forero, Pablo Garcés, Joseph Peralta, Kate Shieh
London: BBC Media Action; London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2013), 55 pp.
"Highlights the findings of the LSE students’ work undertaken between October 2012 and March 2013: a literature review and analysis of BBC Media Action data from Palestinian Territories and Bangladesh on use of social media and civic participation. Findings include: Use of social media is positive ... more
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Mitigating Media Incitement to Violence in Iraq: A Locally Driven Approach

Maureen Taylor, Theo Dolan
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2013), 17 pp.
"The Iraqi media sector is polarized, with news content often representing political positions. In a postconflict environment such as Iraq, this polarized content can become inflammatory, potentially inciting violence and diminishing the chances for Iraq to move forward in its transition to a peacef ... more
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World Press Freedom Index 2013

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2013), 26 pp.
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Media Sustainability Index 2012: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2013), xix, 455 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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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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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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Authoritarianism and Media in Algeria

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2013), 20 pp.
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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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The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas

Mette Hjort (ed.)
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiv, 302 pp.
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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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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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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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Cyberactivism in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions: Potentials, Limitations, Overlaps and Divergences

Sahar Khamis, Katherine Vaughn
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 69-86
"This article discusses the role of ‘cyberactivism’ or the role played by new media in paving the way for political transformation, in both the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions of 2011. It starts with a discussion of the potentials of cyberactivism in both of these revolutions, especially how t ... 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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In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women

Courtney C. Radsch, Sahar Khamis
Feminist Media Studies, volume 13, issue 5 (2013), pp. 881-890
"This feminist, qualitative study sheds light on how young Arab women used cyberactivism to participate in the wave of political and social transformations widely known as the Arab Spring. It argues that these activists leveraged social media to enact new forms of leadership, agency, and empowerment ... more
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Gendering the "Arab Spring:" Arab Women Journalists/Activists, "Cyberfeminism," and the Socio-Political Revolution

Sahar Khamis
In: The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender
Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2013), 11 pp.
"Any observer of the so-called Arab Spring, the massive wave of political revolt that has been sweeping the Arab region since 2011, could not help but notice the visible role that women have been playing in it. Hundreds of thousands of Arab women throughout the region, including in some of the most ... more