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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

UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Jordan: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 3 pp.

"Jordan was included as a beneficiary country under the MDP in 2021, responding to a request by the country’s Judicial Training Institute to strengthen the capacities of judicial operators on international standards and issues related to freedom of expression and access to information. This collab... more

Cultural production and social movements after the Arab Spring: nationalism, politics, and transnational identity

Ayman A. El- Desouky; Eid Mohamed (eds.)

London: Tauris (2021), xii, 250 pp., figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-0-7556-3421-7 (online); 978-0-7556-3419-4 (pdf); 978-0-7556-4127-7 (pbk); 978-0-7556-3418-7 (hbk) CC BY

"This book provides an original contribution to current social and cultural theory on Arab social movements by giving a fuller historical and critical treatment of contemporary artistic and cultural production from the region and beyond. Thematically structured and covering culture, media, politics,... more

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Arab media systems

Carola Richter; Claudia Kozman (eds.)

Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2021), xliv, 345 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-80064-059-7 (pbk); 978-1-80064-061-0 (pdf) CC BY

"This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country's media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contribu... more

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The rise of internet throttling: a hidden threat to media development

Samuel Woodhams

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020)

"An increasing number of governments around the world are forcing internet service providers to slow their services during critical sociopolitical junctures—a practice known as throttling—infringing on citizens’ right to information and freedom of expression. Despite its deleterious impact on ... more

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Global humanitarianism and media culture

Michael Lawrence; Rachel Tavernor (eds.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press (2019), x, 288 pp., illustrations, figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-1-5261-1730-4 (pdf); 978-1-5261-1729-8 (hbk) CC BY-NC-ND

"The chapters in this collection offer original interrogations of the representation of humanitarian crisis and catastrophe, and the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms: traditional and contemporary ... 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

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Digital resistance in the Middle East: new media activism in everyday life

Deborah L. Wheeler

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), xi, 194 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.155-188, index

ISBN 978-1-4744-2257-4; 978-1-4744-2255-0 (hbk); 978-1-4744-2256-7 (pdf)

"This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it presents a grass roots look at how new media use f... more

Arabische Medien

Carola Richter; Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)

Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), 344 pp.

ISBN 978-3-86764-509-6

"Im Fokus des ersten Teils stehen transnationale Phänomene wie die Bedeutung des Satellitenfernsehens und der Sozialen Medien sowie die Rolle von Minderheiten, Gender und Islamisten in den Medien. Diese Beiträge geben den aktuellen Stand der Forschung wieder und reflektieren diesen. Im zweiten Tei... more

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Bridging the gender gap: mobile access and usage in low- and middle-income countries. Connected women 2015

Shireen Santosham; Dominica Lindsey

GSMA; Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp., many tables, bibliogr. p.126-128

"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ... more

Assessment of the media development sector in the Southern Mediterranean region

Catherine Joppart; Dina Basla

MedMedia; European Union (2015), 32 pp.

"This research study examines and assesses the progress of media development work in the Southern Mediterranean region in the wake of the Arab Spring. It highlights the challenges faced by international agencies and presents examples of effective, innovative interventions that could help to shape be... more

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Development efforts to promote investigative reporting: a preliminary assessment of centers in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Bosnia

Rosemary Armao

Paper presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio de Janeiro; Investigative Journalism Education Consortium (IJEC) (2014)

"This paper compares and contrasts four centers: The Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (CIN), The Journalism Training and Research Initiative in Bangladesh (JATRI), the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Jordan (ARIJ), and The Caucasus Media Investigations Center (... more

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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: changing selves, changing societies

Ineke Buskens; Anne Webb (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.

ISBN 978-1-7836-0042-7 (pbk); 978-1-3502-2402-5 (online)

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Palestine online: transnationalism, the internet and the construction of identity

Miriyam Aouragh

London; New York: Tauris (2012) new paperback ed., xix, 272 pp., 18 illustr., 7 tables, bibliogr. p.249-264, index

ISBN 978-1-84885-364-5 (print); 978-0-7556-0788-4 (online)

Other Editions: 1st ed. 2011

"For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Leban... more