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Infrastructural platform violence: How women and queer journalists and activists in Lebanon experience abuse on WhatsApp

Martin J. Riedl, Azza El-Masri, Inga K. Trauthig, Samuel C. Woolley
New Media & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"Technology-facilitated abuse and violence disproportionately affect marginalized people. While researchers have explored this issue in the context of public-facing social media platforms, less is known about how it plays out on more private messaging apps. This study draws on in-depth interviews wi ... more
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Histories of Children's Television Around the World
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Yuval Gozansky (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2023), viii, 288 pp.
"This edited book based on a collective effort of researchers and professionals dedicated to compile the stories of children's television around the world. With 12 national chapters, the book includes historical accounts of children's television from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canad ... more
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa

Farooq A. Kperogi (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 292 pp.
"Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric ... more
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Die Hydra des Dschihadismus: Entstehung, Ausbreitung und Abwehr einer globalen Gefahr

Asiem El Difraoui
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 366 pp.
"Die grausamen Handlungen dschihadistischer Gruppierungen wie der „Al-Qaida“ oder des „Islamischen Staates“ schockieren und verbreiten Angst. Immer wieder scheinen neue Attentäter nachzurücken, ein Phänomen, das Asiem El Difraoui mit den stets nachwachsenden Köpfen einer Hydra vergleicht ... more
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Évaluation de la couverture médiatique des enjeux économiques et sociaux en Tunisie

Michel Leroy, Sofien Ammar (eds.)
CFI (2023), 82 pp.
"L'information economique et sociale occupe la 3eme position des rubriques favorites, derriere le sport et la sante (la 5e pour les femmes). 65% des sondes declarent la suivre mais seulement 5% des 18-24 ans la suivent « regulierement ». 34 % des 18-24 ans n'ont recours a aucun des medias traditio ... more
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Reporting the MENA as Conflict: Political Influences, Routine Practices, and Journalists' Struggles in the Field

Claudia Kozman
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
Bruce Mutsvairo, Saba Bebawi, Eddy Borges-Rey (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 260-268
"Working in a conflict-ridden region, journalists in the Middle East have always struggled to report fairly and accurately while keeping in mind the power structures in their countries. For these journalists, practicing journalism in mostly authoritative governments has meant facing additional hurdl ... more
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Constraints on Journalistic Practices in the Arab World Post–Arab Spring and Post-Covid-19

Sahar Khamis, Khalid Al-Jaber
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
Bruce Mutsvairo, Saba Bebawi, Eddy Borges-Rey (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 179-186
"Over a decade ago, the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings erupted in six Arab countries. They were accompanied, initially, by high hopes for democratic transformation and reform (Lynch, 2012). These hopes and aspirations also included widening the margin of freedom of expression in general and press freedo ... more
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Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research

Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan, Joanna Soraya Abu Zahari (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxviii, 280 pp.
"Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("CommSocMed"). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the exp ... more
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Hate Speech in Lebanon: The Shortcomings and Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms

Afef Abrougui, Mirna Ghanem, Farah Rasmi
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 49 pp.
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Survey on the impact of online disinformation and hate speech
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Paris: UNESCO; Ipsos (2023), 35 slides
"On average in the 16 countries surveyed, 56% of internet users frequently use social media to stay informed about current events, far ahead of television (44%). However, it is worth noting that differences exist among population groups: television is the primary source in the most developed countri ... more
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Violations of Media Freedoms in Palestine: Annual Report 2023

Sherine Al-Khatib
Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2023), 142 pp.
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Examining Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalization Through a Peace Communication Perspective

Flora Khoo (ed.)
New York: Peter Lang (2023), 322 pp.
"This edited book expands the applicability of peace journalism research beyond war to cover terrorism and radicalization, an issue that has not yet been touched by peace journalism scholars." (Publisher description)
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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 397 pp.
"Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, ... more
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The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East

Joe F. Khalil, Gholam Khiabany, Tourya Guaaybess, Bilge Yesil (eds.)
New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell (2023), xvi, 550 pp.
"Rather than viewing the Middle East as a monolithic culture, this Handbook examines the diverse and multi-local characteristics of the region’s knowledge production, dynamic media, and rich cultures. It addresses a wide range of topics, including the evolving mainstream and alternative media, com ... more
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Independence, Democracy, and Social Justice: Exploring the Viability of Media Cooperatives in Lebanon

Diala Ahwach
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2023), 44 pp.
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Arab digital journalism

Noha Mellor
London; New York: Routledge (2023), x, 133 pp.
"Drawing on dozens of articles penned by Arab media professionals and scholars, supplemented with informal conversations with journalists, this book reviews the historical development of digital journalism in the region and individual journalists’ perceptions of this development. While technology ... more
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When Children Draw Gods: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approach to Children's Representations of Supernatural Agents

Pierre-Yves Brandt, Zhargalma Dandarova-Robert, Christelle Cocco, Dominique Vinck, Frédéric Darbellay (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2023), viii, 569 pp.
"This open access book explores how children draw God. It looks at children's drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying representations of the divine. In the process, it also contributes to our u ... more
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Le cinéma amazigh-berbère et les autres médias

Amar Améziane, Daniela Merolla (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 227 pp.
"Des échanges intertextuels entre films, oralité et écriture ont caractérisé la production cinématographique des années 1990 et un certain nombre d’études leur ont été dédiées. Moins traitées par la recherche sont les relations entretenues par le cinéma avec la télévision et l’In ... more
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“All This Terror Because of a Photo”: Digital Targeting and its Offline Consequences for LGBT People in the Middle East and North Africa

Human Rights Watch (2023), iv, 167 pp.
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Exploring Disinformation in Fragile States: Iraq as a Case Study of Influence of International Political Actors

Rawand Faeq
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 18 pp.
"This paper examines the influence of international political actors in perpetuating disinformation in fragile states, using Iraq as a case study. The advent of modern technology and social media has transformed the global information landscape, providing new avenues for the dissemination of disinfo ... more