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Needs Assessment of Independent Media in the Neighbourhood: A Summary of the Report Produced for the European Commission’s DG NEAR
Manchester: University of Salford (2020), 19 pp.
"This summary presents the top-level findings of an eight-month research project aimed at assessing the needs of independent media in the EU Neighbourhood (East and South). The study was carried out by four international experts who visited 11 of the 16 partner countries and conducted interviews wit
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"Big Changes Start Small": Stories of People Making a Difference. An Impact Report
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 97 pp.
"DW Akademie collects and documents the impacts of its projects through a range of methods. There are three approaches that are currently standard in development cooperation: Applied studies, which enable new insights on impacts, impact-oriented monitoring performed with local partners in the course
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Muslim Online Prayer in a Sociocultural Context
CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 64-84
"The article argues that the debate over the online prayer is not just an ordinary fatwa issued by religious scholars for the Muslim Ummah, but it rather goes through a complicated process of social, identarian, cultural, authoritative, and transnational caveats. The physicality entailed by this deb
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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp.
"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o
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IPA Global Report on Copyright & Publishing
International Publishers Association (IPA) (2020), 257 pp.
"The first edition of the IPA Global Report on Copyright & Publishing aims to provide an overview of aspects of copyright law and policy in the 69 countries where IPA’s members are established, based on the issues that are most relevant to the publishing industry. The objective of this report is t
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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Deep Insights
Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.
"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa
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Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 345 pp.
"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationship
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Online Temptations: COVID-19 and Religious Misinformation in the MENA Region
Social Media + Society, volume 6, issue 3 (2020), pp. 1-4
"Issues of verification in the age of mass media, and now social media, have been a long-discussed topic among Islamic media scholars. While Islam might be a common thread in COVID-19 religious misinformation, there is nothing inherently Islamic to the religious tinged elements of misinformation on
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Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 5th ed. (2020), ix, 311 pp.
"[This book] has been thoroughly updated with new content, trends, and conclusions, all based on the latest data. The book examines broadcasting, mass media, and news services ranging from MSNBC, MTV, and CNN to television sitcoms and Hollywood export markets. It investigates the roles of the major
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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden
welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33
"Viele Filme aus Ländern in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika befassen sich phantasievoll mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Unter welchen Bedingungen arbeiten Regisseurinnen in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien? Warum sind afrikanische Religionen und Riten ein Thema im jungen nigerianischen Kino? Und wie g
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MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
Deep Insights
New York: Routledge (2020), xxx, 358 pp.
"With e-learning technologies evolving and expanding at high rates, organizations and institutions around the world are integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other open educational resources (OERs). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveragi
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Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2020), xvi, 328 pp.
Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World
Albany: State University of New York Press (2020), xiv, 152 pp.
"Following the Arab Spring events in 2011, a number of important women's social movements as well as female figures and online communities emerged to create positive change and demand equality with men. In Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World author Ahmed Al-Rawi discusses and maps out n
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Public Media Accountability: Media Journalism, Engaged Publics and Critical Media Literacy in the MENA
London: LSE Middle East Centre (2020), 22 pp.
"This study examines the ways in which Arab citizens, as media users, could be enabled to influence news media conduct and thus enhance media practicioners’ commitment toward ethical journalistic practices and standards, particularly accuracy, balance and fairness. It aims to explore the possibili
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Propaganda des „Islamischen Staats“: Formen und Formate
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), vi, 411 pp.
"Die Propaganda der terroristischen Miliz "Islamischer Staat" hat für Aufsehen gesorgt und die Debatte um das Internet und vor allem das "Social Web" als Risikotechnologie oder Gefahrenraum mitbestimmt. Dabei setzt der IS auf ein breites Spektrum medialer und gestalterischer Formen und Formate eine
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Social Media in the Middle East: 2019 in Review. Key Developments, Stories and Research Findings from the Past 12 Months
University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication (2020), 55 pp.
"This report is the eighth in an annual series of publications, dating back to 2012, designed to share the latest stories, trends and research in social media usage from across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Using a wide variety of academic, industry and media sources, this White Paper ide
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Entertainment-Education Versus Extremism: Examining Parasocial Interaction Among Arab Viewers of Anti-ISIS TV Drama
Deep Insights
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 24 (2020), pp. 40-77
"Recent reports indicate that over 20,000 Arab fighters traveled to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria and another 5-15 percent of millennials across seven Arab countries consider some violent extremist groups to be on the right path. In response, Arab countries have experimented with entertainment-educati
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Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 680 pp.
"Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life. This handbook provides the most complete analysis of the phenomenon
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Data Journalism in the Global South
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxxv, 334 pp.
"This volume seeks to analyse the emerging wave of data journalism in the Global South. It does so by examining trends, developments and opportunities for data journalism in the aforementioned contexts. Whilst studies in this specific form of journalism are increasing in numbers and significance, th
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Supporting Media for Democracy (2013-2019)
Deep Insights
Brussels: European Endowment for Democracy (EED) (2019), 20 pp.
"This publication presents EED’s work in the area of independent media, and reflects on lessons learned in six years of media and democracy support. It offers an analysis of the worrying trends and challenges faced by media today and calls for an urgent re-set in thinking about donor support to me
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