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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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Online activism in the Middle East: political power and authoritarian governments from Egypt to Kuwait

Jon Nordenson

London: Tauris (2017), xiv, 402 pp., bibliogr. p.328-389, index

ISBN 978-1-78453-778-4

"This book provides empirical analysis of the day-to-day use of online platforms by activists in Egypt and Kuwait. The research evaluates the importance of online platforms for effecting change and establishes a specific framework for doing so. Egypt and Kuwait were chosen because, since the mid-200... 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

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Social media in the Arab world: communication and public opinion in the Gulf states

Barrie Gunter; Mokhtar Elareshi; Khalid Al-Jaber (eds.)

London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp., bibliogr. p.239-257, index

ISBN 978-0-85772-835-7

"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp... 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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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