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Die Globalisierung religiöser Gewalt: Von christlichen Milizen bis al-Qaida

Mark Juergensmeyer
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2009), 485 pp.
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La caricature et le dessin de presse en Afrique

Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 239 pp.
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Internationalizing Media Studies
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Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2009), xiii, 320 pp.
"This collection of essays by internationally-acclaimed scholars from around the world aims to stimulate a debate about the imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit, including innovative research methodologies, taking account of regional and national specificities and ... more
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Hezbollah's Media: Political History in Outline
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Olfa Lamloum
Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 3 (2009), pp. 353-367
"Since 1985, the Lebanese Hezbollah has developed a centralized communications apparatus which was a major instrument in building its leadership in the Shiite community. My contribution intends to explore the main media of this party as both cognitive and political resources for mobilization and as ... more
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International Blogging: Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics

Adrienne Russell, Nabil Echchaibi (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2009), x, 205 pp.
"Through case studies of blogs written in English, Chinese, Arab, French, Russian, and Hebrew, this book explores the way blogging is being conceptualized in different cultural contexts. The authors move beyond the most highly trafficked sites to shed light on larger developments taking place online ... more
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Arab News and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Discourse Study

Samia Bazzi
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company (2009), 238 pp.
"Drawing on socio-political-linguistic approaches combined with real-case studies, the author offers a unique discourse analysis model for analysing politically sensitive language in the media. The focus in this study is on the Arab media discourse in times of conflict with Israel and the US, spanni ... more
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Final Report of the Peer-To-Peer Development and Support of Science Journalism in the Developing World: The SjCOOP Project

Gatineau: World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) (2009), 104 pp.
"SjCOOP1 objectives were to (1) develop a network of professional science journalists in Africa, North Africa and in the Middle East; (2) put in place national and regional associations of science journalists; and (3) strengthen the World Federation of Science Journalists as a supportive partner of ... more
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Faith and Media: Analysis of Faith and Media. Representation and Communication

Hans Geybels, Sara Mels, Michel Walrave (eds.)
Brussels: Peter Lang (2009), 257 pp.
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A Suggested Framework for Assessing Electronic Government Readiness in Egypt

Nahed Amin Azab, Sherif Kamel, Georgios Dafoulas
Electronic Journal of e-Government, volume 7, issue 1 (2009), pp. 11-27
"Electronic Government (e-Government) is becoming a global phenomenon that is increasingly attracting the attention of community citizens including politicians, economists, decision and policy makers amongst others. Once only regarded as a means for modernizing the public sector and increasing gover ... more
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Gaza Media Safety

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 14 pp.
"Lack of safety and basic protection for media workers in Gaza – and in particular for journalists and photographers working freelance – has been identified as the most crucial and imminent issue in the weeks following the military offensive by Israel against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on 27 Decemb ... more
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Global Journalism: Topical Issues and Media Systems
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Arnold S. De Beer (ed.)
Boston et al.: Pearson Education, 5th ed. (2009), 482 pp.
"Almost entirely rewritten and updated, Global Journalism addresses the most pertinent issues and problems in today's global journalism and media environments, whilst providing an extensive overview of journalism throughout the world. This new edition recognizes the vast and rapid changes taking pla ... more
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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Mit ITK aus der Krise

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM); Auswärtiges Amt (2009), 267 pp.
"In Ihren Händen halten Sie die zweite Auflage unserer Publikation „Auslandsmärkte als Chance“. Als wir vor gut zwei Jahren die erste Ausgabe veröffentlichten, florierte die Weltwirtschaft und mit ihr die IT- und Telekommunikationsmärkte. Wer hätte damals gedacht, dass wir im Jahr 2009 die ... more
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Freedom of the Press 2008: A Global Survey of Media Independence

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Sarah G. Cook (eds.)
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2009), xxv, 369 pp.
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Freedom of the Press 2009: Further Declines in Global Media Independence

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2009), 226 pp.
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Theorizing the Muslim Blogosphere: Blogs, Rationality, Publicness, and Individuality

Eugenia Siapera
In: International Blogging: Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics
Adrienne Russell, Nabil Echchaibi (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), pp. 29-46
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African Digital Media and the Public Sphere

Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, Fackson Banda (eds.)
New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xv, 260 pp.
"This book examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist, and pessimist stances through analyses of various forms of evide ... more
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Arab Television Industries
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Marwan M. Kraidy, Joe F. Khalil
London: Palgrave Macmillan; British Film Institute (bfi) (2009), 193 pp.
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Defining the Nation? Lebanese Television and Political Elites, 1990-2005

Katharina Nötzold
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2009), 346 + xxvi pp.
"Katharina Nötzold explores whether and how mass media can contribute to nation-building after civil war. Drawing on the example of Lebanon s audiovisual media organisations, which are mostly privately owned by politicians, she demonstrates how political elites use television to transmit their visi ... more
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Media Sustainability Index 2008: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in the Middle East and North Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2009), xix, 209 pp.
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Internet Filtering in Iran

OpenNet Initiative (2009), 14 pp.