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Crafting the Arab Media for Peace-Building: Donors, Dialogue and Disasters

Bruce Stanley
In: Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life
Naomi Sakr (ed.)
London; New York: Tauris (2007), pp. 135-153
"From small beginnings in the 1960s, Western governments and international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) are today spending huge sums on media intervention in Arab countries, to the point where such intervention has become an industry. Among the plethora of media projects aimed at moulding ... more
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Media Pressure on Foreign Policy: The Evolving Theoretical Framework

Derek B. Miller
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), x, 244 pp.
"This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology. This offers the first independent and comparative history and analysis of media pressure vs. coverage, through the lens of ... more
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The Islamic Internet: Authority, Authenticity and Reform

Musa Maguire
In: Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow
Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.)
Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2007), pp. 237-250
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Out of China, into the light

Dominic Waghorn
British Journalism Review, volume 18, issue 1 (2007), pp. 23-27
"Foreign correspondent Waghorn compares long-term assignments in China and Israel and observes: "Whereas in China the challenge was engaging the viewers' interest in somewhere so unfamiliar and alien, here [Israel] it is keeping them interested in somewhere they find over familiar. Rock-throwing, su ... more
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The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond

Rasha A. Abdulla
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2007), xxii, 175 pp.
"The internet in the Arab World: Egypt and beyond is the first book to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the status of the internet and its uses and effects in Egypt and the Arab world. Tackling the issue in a systematic, scientific manner, this book also examines Islamic online communic ... more
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World Press Trends 2007

Paris: World Association of Newspapers (WAN) (2007), 781 pp.
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Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade

Andrew J. Flibbert
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xv, 229 pp.
"Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content or substance, the book exposes the ongoing political and economic struggles that shape cultural production and trade in the world. The historical fo ... more
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Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies

Isaac A. Blankson, Patrick D. Murphy (eds.)
New York: State University of New York Press (2007), xi, 285 pp.
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The 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council Election: Evaluating the Media

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2007), 29 pp.
"The Palestinian media, taken as a whole, generally offered voters a variety of views concerning the campaign. Respect of legal provisions for free airtime on the public TV and radio, as well as televised debates and talk shows, permitted parties and candidates to convey messages to the electorate. ... more
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What Arabs Read: A Pan-Arab Survey on Readership. Phase 1: Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco

Nextpage; synovate (2007), 326 pp.
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Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life
Deep Insights

Naomi Sakr (ed.)
London: Tauris (2007), 208 pp.
"[...] This authoritative book answers key questions about the connections between media and political change in the Arab world. Using research into, for example, practices of Internet users, journalists, demonstrators and producers of reality TV, it explores the interface between public interaction ... more
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Politische Kommunikation in internationalen Beziehungen

Jens Tenscher, Henrike Viehrig (eds.)
Berlin: Lit (2007), 233 pp.
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Journalism in Iran: From Mission to Profession

Hossein Shahidi
London; New York: Routledge (2007), xii, 194 pp.
"This book charts the development of professional journalism in Iran since the 1979 Revolution that replaced the monarchy with an Islamic Republic. Written to pay homage to Iranian journalists, the book focuses on newspapers, radio and television providing a fuller picture of Iran's media environmen ... more
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Reform and Regression: Freedom of the Media in Turkey. Fact-Finding Mission Report
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Edel Hughes
Walter Jawardene; Mustafa Gündogudu (eds.)
London: Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP); Index on Censorship; Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales; Article 19; Centre for European Studies (2007), 74 pp.
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Children and Media in Times of War and Conflict

Dafna Lemish, Maya Götz (eds.)
Cresskill: Hampton Press (2007), viii, 363 pp.
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Embedded Journalists: Kriegsberichterstattung im Wandel

Kristina Isabel Schwarte
Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot (2007), 136 pp.
"Die deutsche Soziologin Kristina Isabel Schwarte zeichnet nach, wie US-Regierung und -Militär die Rahmenbedingungen für die Berichterstattung über den Vietnamkrieg und Interventionen im Irak seit 1991 beeinflussten. Schwarte beleuchtet die Informationspolitik und Propaganda-Strategien der Konfli ... more
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Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges

Gabriel Weimann
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press (2006), 309 pp.
"In this timely and eye-opening volume, Gabriel Weimann reveals that terrorist organizations and their supporters maintain hundreds of Web sites, taking advantage of the unregulated, anonymous, and accessible nature of the Internet to target an array of messages to diverse audiences. Drawing on an e ... more
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The Internet in the Middle East: Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in Kuwait

Deborah L. Wheeler
New York: State University of New York Press (2006), xi, 241 pp.
"Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourse and social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus on Kuwait, Deborah L. Wheeler offers an intimate journ ... more
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Foreign Support for Media Freedom: Advocacy in the Arab Mediterranean: Globalization from Above or Below?

Naomi Sakr
Mediterranean Politics, volume 11, issue 1 (2006), pp. 1-20
"Recent structural changes to the Arab audio-visual media scene have encouraged an increasing number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in media freedom advocacy to launch initiatives aimed at making Arab broadcast media more pluralistic and boosting the independence and professionali ... more
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Open Media and Transitioning Societies in the Arab Middle East: Implications for US Security Policy

Michael Kraig, Kathy Gockel
Muscatine, IA: Stanley Foundation (2006), 32 pp.