the aid library

LIST OPTIONS

Filter

1590

Sort by:

Direction:

External Link (61)

Google Scholar (20)

WorldCat (26)

The global handbook of media accountability

Susanne Fengler; Tobias Eberwein; Matthias Karmasin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 614 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-0-367-34628-7 (hbk); 978-1-03-215615-6 (pbk); 978-0-429-32694-3 (pdf)

"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in... more

External Link (15)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (10)

Cyber muslims: mapping Islamic digital media in the internet age

Robert Thomas Rozehnal (ed.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), xv, 327 pp., figures, tables, bibliogr. p.279-314, index

ISBN 978-1-350-23370-6 (pbk); 978-1-350-23369-0 (hbk); 978-1-350-23372-0 (pdf)

"Providing detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufi mystics, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, Hajj pilgrims and celebrities. Together, these stories span a vast cultural and geograph... more

Iran: tightening the net 2020. After blood and shutdowns

London: Article 19 (2020), 63 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"In November 2019, protests broke out across Iran over a fuel price hike; authorities responded with violence and repression. They also disconnected millions of Iranians from the Internet. Iran’s November shutdowns were unprecedented in length and reach. On a vast scale, they cut people off from v... more

External Link (12)

Online supplement to working paper 2018.1. Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw; Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s... more

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (6)

Digital Middle East: state and society in the information age

Mohamed Zayani (ed.)

New York; Qatar: Oxford University Press; Georgetown University (2018), xii, 335 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-190859329

"Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the MENA region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are p... more

Digital inclusion: an international comparative analysis

Massimo Ragnedda; Bruce Mutsvairo; Gerard Goggin (eds.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4985-6212-6

"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink... more

External Link (24)

Google Scholar (16)

WorldCat (17)

Cultural revolution in Iran: contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic

Annabelle Sreberny; Massoumeh Torfeh

London; New York: Tauris (2017) new paperback ed., xiv, 287 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-1-78453-513-1

Other Editions: 1st ed. 2013

"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive... more

Thirty rising media markets 2016

Anne Austin; Jonathan Barnard; Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon... more

Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme

Roger Blum

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp., 60 tab., bibliogr. p.403-440

ISBN 978-3-86962-049-7

"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich... more

Puppetry for all times: papers presented at the Bali puppetry seminar 2013

Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof

Singapore: Patridge (2014), 389 pp., illustr.

ISBN 978-1-4828-2811 (hbk); 978-14828-2810-8 (pbk); 978-1-4828-2812-2

"The Puppetry for All Times Seminar held in September of 2013 in Ubud, Bali, was one of the most enchanting of events of its kind held anywhere in recent years. Its success revolved around the fantastic locale, the overwhelming response from performers as well as the paper presenters, and the genero... more

External Link (24)

Google Scholar (19)

WorldCat (16)

Image politics in the Middle East: the role of the visual in political struggle

Lina Khatib

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xii, 248 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.230-242, index

"Politics in the Middle East is now ‘seen’ and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, i... more

External Link (19)

Google Scholar (17)

WorldCat (15)

BBG research series briefing: Iran media use 2012

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 30 slides

"State media will continue to play a critical role in Iran. The audience for external media platforms is large and will remain so absent any significant reforms in domestic media. Attitudes towards specific media outlets are rarely uni-dimensional, and few enjoy unqualified trust. Satellite TV remai... more

External Link (6)

Google Scholar (6)

WorldCat (5)

Leaping over the firewall: a review of censorship circumvention tools

Cormac Callanan; Hein Dries-Ziekenheiner; Alberto Escudero-Pascual; Robert Guerra

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2011), 75 pp.

"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (5)

WorldCat (6)

The practice of public diplomacy: confronting challenges abroad

William A. Rugh

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xviii, 262 pp.

ISBN 978-0-230-11322-0 (print); 978-1-283-09673-7 (ebook)

"Relying heavily on scores of first-hand accounts collected through interviews, the studies examine the practice of public diplomacy largely from the perspective of American practitioners in different countries. The analyses follow the standard field officer approach, asking systematically: what iss... more

External Link (14)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (8)

Digital review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar; Patricia Arinto (eds.)

Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xxvii, index

ISBN 978-81-321-0084-3 (pbk); 978-1-5255-0456-7 (ebook)

"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u... more

External Link (9)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (9)

Digital review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008: reports on 31 economies and 2 sub-regional associations

Felix Librero; Patricia B. Arinto

New Dehli: Sage India; Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), xv, 373 pp., abbrev. p.xiv-xv, illustr., tables, index

ISBN 978-1-52550-377-5 (IDRC); 978-0-7619-3674-9 (pbk); 978-81-7829-840-5 (pbk India)

External Link (27)

Google Scholar (16)

WorldCat (21)

Women and media in the Middle East: power through self-expression

Naomi Sakr (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2004), viii, 248 pp., bibliogr. p.228-240, index

"Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women fil... more