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Meeting the challenges of information disorder in the Global South

Herman Wasserman (ed.)

Rondebosch: Centre for Film and Media Studies University of Cape Town; International Development Research Center (IDRC) (2022), 256 pp.

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"Despite information disorder being a widespread problem in countries in the Global South, the study of this phenomenon remains dominated by examples, case studies, and models from the Global North. Knowledge about the various manifestations of information disorder, the range of responses, and the s... more

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Media governance: a cosmopolitan critique

Sarah Anne Ganter; Hanan Badr (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xv, 318 pp., index

ISBN 978-3-031-05020-6 (ebook); 978-3-031-05022-0 (pbk)

"The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adap... more

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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

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Media training in transition countries: perspectives of a media trainer

Sam Swan

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 142 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-00-055442-7 (pdf); 978-0-367-72501-3 (hbk); 978-0-367-72567-9 (pbk)

"Drawing on the author’s and other media trainers’ experiences over a 25-year period, this book provides important insights into tailoring training programs to specific regions and countries. Case studies describe training in radio and television management, broadcasting, and media sustainabilit... more

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Iron net: digital repression in the Middle East and North Africa

James Lynch

London: European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) (2022), 25 pp.

ISBN 978-1-914572-56-2

"Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the leading exponents of digital authoritarianism in the Middle East. The two states have intensified their collaboration with China and Israel to gain greater access to advanced technologies. The EU has responded to concerns about the risks of new technologies with a r... 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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Routledge handbook of environmental journalism

David B. Sachsman; JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp., illustrations, index

ISBN 978-1-138-47850-3 (hbk); 978-1-351-06840-6 (online)

"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... more

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Worlds of journalism: journalistic cultures around the globe

Thomas Hanitzsch; Folker Hanusch; Jyotika Ramaprasad; Arrie De Beer (eds.)

New York: Columbia University Press (2019), xi, 434 pp., bibliogr. p.371-411, index

ISBN 978-0-231-18643-8 (print); 978-0-231-54663-8 (ebook)

"How do journalists around the world view their own function and role in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 25,000 journalists in 66 countries between 2012 and 2015, Worlds of Journalism examines the different ways journalists conceive of their responsibilities... more

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Linkages as a lens: an exploration of strategic communications in P/CVE

Joe Whittaker; Lilah Elsayed

Journal for deradicalization, volume , issue 20 (2019), pp. 1-45

ISSN 2363-9849 CC BY-NC-ND

"Strategic communications for the purpose of countering violent extremism have become widespread in recent years, especially given the communications revolution which has amplified the messages of violent extremists and those that wish to counter them. Despite this, there is little-to-no research wh... more

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Digital Jihad: online communication and violent extremism

Francesco Marone (ed.)

Milano: Ledizioni LediPublishing; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) (2019), 156 pp.

ISBN 9788855261371 (pdf); 9788855261357 (print)

"... this ISPI report aims to investigate the current landscape of jihadist online communication, including original empirical analysis. In doing so, the volume does not interpret the internet as a shapeless monolith but tries to highlight the opportunities and limitations of different digital platf... more

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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

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The little data book on information and communication technology 2018

Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank; International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (2018), vi, 240 pp., glossary p.235-240

ISBN 978-0-8213-8996-6 (print); 978-0-8213-9519-6 (ebook) CC BY-NC

"In 2016, there were more than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2.5 billion were from developing countries. Mobile-broadband subscriptions have risen constantly to reach 3.6 billion, while the number of fixed-broadban... 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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Perspectives from the global entertainment and media outlook 2017–2021: Curtain up! User experience takes center stage

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2017), 40 pp.

"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an... more

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Strategies for reaching digital media users in MENA: one region, multiple realities

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2015), 32 slides

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Uncommon grounds: new media and critical practices in North Africa and the Middle East

Anthony Downey (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2014), 359 pp., many illustr., index

ISBN 978-1-78453-035-8

"Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon Grounds evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices – and social movements – in the Arab world today. Analysing alternative forms of c... more

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Bits and atoms: information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood

Steven Livingston; Gregor Walter-Drop (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp., bibliogr. p.173-185, index

ISBN 978-0-19-994161-2

"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone... 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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Global right to information update: an analysis by region

Lydia Medland; Toby Mendel (eds.)

Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) (2013), 91 pp.

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"The Update reveals that the challenges faced by advocates, and the campaigning tactics used in each region, are at times remarkably similar. National civil society coalitions, for example, are mentioned by many authors as having made a central contribution to campaigns. In other cases, challenges d... more

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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