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Altering Courses in Unknown Waters: Interaction Between Traditional and New Media During the First Months of the Syrian Uprising

Lorenzo Trombetta
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 13 pp.
"This paper aims at investigating the relationship between traditional and social media during the first six months of the Syrian uprising. Thanks to direct testimony made available to the author by various cyber activists inside and outside Syria and through constant monitoring of the official prop ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio

John Allen Hendricks (ed.)
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xxxiv, 590 pp.
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The Media and the Making of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Amr Osman, Marwa Abdel Samei
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 19 pp.
"While views may differ on the factors that made the 2011 Egyptian revolution possible, the role of mass media will remain undisputable. The Internet-based social networks caught the Mubarak regime by surprise, and the popular disillusionment with the‘national’ media led the public to turn to pr ... more
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Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World

Philip Seib (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), 204 pp.
"For Al Jazeera English (AJE), the Arab revolutions of 2011 offered an opportunity that news executives dream about. It was the biggest story of the century, it was happening on home territory, and the channel had the expertise and the reportorial staff on the ground at levels its competitors could ... more
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Deciphering User-Generated Content in Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study

Juliette Harkin, Kevin Anderson, Libby Morgan, Briar Smith
Washington, DC: Internews; Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), 40 pp.
"The objective of this study is to look at how two prominent Arab-language news organisations, BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), have used social media and user-generated content — photos, videos and comments — to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria. Due to the unique pressures in co ... more
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Mapping Digital Media: Lebanon

Jad Melki, Yasmine Dabbous, Khaled Nasser, Sarah Mallat
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 99 pp.
"Thanks to digital media, Lebanon’s residents have access to a variety of news platforms, from 24-hour cable channels to internet sites and text message services. Despite easy access to Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, CNN, BBC, and others through subscriptions to pirated cable bundles or satellite receive ... more
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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2012

Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank; ITU (2012), vi, 239 pp.
"This Little Data Book presents tables for over 213 economies showing the most recent national data on key indicators of information and communications technology (ICT), including access, quality, affordability, efficiency, sustainability, and applications." (Abstract)
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Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) in North Africa and the Middle East

Paris: Panos Paris (2012), 263 pp.
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Algerian National Cinema

Guy Austin
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2012), viii, 198 pp.
"This book, via an analysis of cinema, provides a discussion on some misunderstandings and assumptions about Algeria, which remains to a large extent underrepresented or misrepresented in the UK media. It is about Algerian national cinema and illuminates the ways in which the official mythologising ... more
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State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: The Responsibility to Prevent

Irwin Cotler
In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 430-455
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Les cinémas du Maghreb et leurs publics

Patricia Caillé, Florence Martin (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2012), 344 pp.
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The Geography of Foreign News on Television: A Comparative Study of 17 Countries

Jürgen Wilke, Christine Heimprecht, Akiba Cohen
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 301-322
"The project investigated foreign TV news in 17 countries from five regions in the world: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States of America. The data of the content analysis in all ... more
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Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained: What Works and Why? Global Synthesis Report

Mary Myers
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 32 pp.
"This report addresses the challenges of supporting independent media in countries where media freedoms are restricted, based on country case studies in Bangladesh, Cambodia, South Sudan, Syria and Uganda. According to Myers, the dilemmas of foreign support include short-term donor strategies, the l ... more
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Media in Turmoil: An Assessment of the Media Sector in Yemen

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 13 pp.
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The New Tunisian Legislative Framework: A Focus on Press and Audiovisual Media

Joan Barata Mir
Internews (2012), 15 pp.
This report analyzes the most important trends of two recent major laws aimed at regulating free speech and media issues in Tunisia: Decree 115 of 2011 (Decree 115/2011), on the Press, Printing and Publishing, and Decree 116 of 2011 (Decree 116/2011), on the Freedom of Audiovisual Communication and ... more
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Syria’s Cyber Wars

Amjad Baiazy
Open Society Foundation (2012), 25 pp.
"The government in Syria came to differentiate between political dissent and the civil society activism in which the new generation plays a vital role thanks to the use of social media. Unable to control the burst of online activity, Damascus was forced to focus on monitoring key dissenters and huma ... more
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Clicks, Cabs, and Coffee Houses: Social Media and Oppositional Movements in Egypt, 2004–2011

Merlyna Lim
Journal of Communication, volume 62 (2012), pp. 231-248
"To deepen our understanding of the relationship between social media and political change during the Egyptian uprising of early 2011, events in Tahrir Square must be situated in a larger context of media use and recent history of online activism. For several years, the most successful social moveme ... more
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War Journalists and Forces of Gatekeeping During the Escalation and the De-Escalation Periods of the Iraq War

Hun Shik Kim
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 323-341
"Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, war journalists have reported news from the battlefields and streets of Baghdad to the world audiences. As the violent conflict in Iraq winds down, so do the war reporting operations in Iraq. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 war correspondents, this study inv ... more
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Satellite Jamming in Iran: A War Over Airwaves

Small Media (2012), 71 pp.
"This report has established that the jamming of Persian-language satellite TV channels is endemic in Iran, and is having adverse effects on both broadcasters and viewers alike. In Iran, satellite television is one of the few sources of news, entertainment, and commentary not controlled by the count ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2012), 273 pp.
"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more