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Diffusion of development journalism inside Egyptian newsrooms

Rasha Allam; Ahmed El Gody

International journal of press/politics, volume 78, issue 1 (2023), pp. 278-299

"This study examines the boundaries and limitations of the diffusion of “development journalism” among both the editorial body and the journalist body in the Egyptian newsrooms after the 2011 Arab Spring. Newsrooms under study represent different perspectives including state-owned, private-indep... more

The unfreedom monitor: Egypt country report

Advox (2022), 20 pp.

CC BY

"According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), half of the media in the country is owned by the government or affiliated with the intelligence services. The rest are owned by pro-government businessmen. The few independent press websites that are still open have been blocked. Their owners and editor... more

Media of the masses: cassette culture in modern Egypt

Andrew Simon

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (2022), xiii, 279 pp., figures, bibliogr. p.249-269, index

ISBN 978-1-5036-2943-1 (hbk); 978-1-5036-3144-1 (pbk); 978-1-5036-3145-8 (online)

"Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology - the cassette tape - to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette technology gave an opening to ordinary indiv... more

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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

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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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Mobile technology and social transformations: access to knowledge in global contexts

Stefanie Felsberger; Ramesh Subramanian (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.

ISBN 978-0-367-54522-2 (hbk); 978-0-367-54524-6 (pbk); 978-1-00-308957-5 (online)

"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse... 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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Communications on climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations: exploring best-practices and postcolonial moments in eight case studies from across the globe

Dawud Ansari et al.

Berlin: DIW Berlin (2021), 51 pp., illustr., bibliogr., p.44-51

"... in this article, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for a panel of eight case studies (covering four continents) [Amazon rainforest, Brazil; Colombia; India; Bangaldesh; Egypt; Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania; Baltic Sea, Germany; Isles of Scilly, UK] ] of communicatio... 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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Negotiating dissidence: the pioneering women of Arab documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), vii, 238 pp., figures, bibliogr., p.225-232, index

ISBN 978-1-4744-3755-4 (pbk); 978-0-7486-9606-2 (hbk); 978-0-7486-9607- 9 (pdf)

"In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the ... more

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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

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How violence shapes religion: belief and conflict in the Middle East and Africa

Ziya Meral

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), x, 217 pp., bibliogr. p.188-209, index

ISBN 978-1-108-45285-4 (pbk); 978-1-108-42900-9 (hbk)

"Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent conflicts, or are there other factors at play? How can we make sense of increasing reports of violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic communities acro... more

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This is not an atlas: a global collection of counter-cartographies

kollektiv orangotango+ (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2018), 352 pp., many maps

ISBN 978-3-8394-4519-8 (pdf); 978-3-8376-4519-4 (print) CC BY

"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement... 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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Media framing of democratisation conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: a content analysis

Nebojša Vladisavljevic; Katrin Voltmer

Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2017), 26 pp.

ISSN 2057-4002

"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S... 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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Children's TV and digital media in the Arab world: childhood, screen culture and education

Naomi Sakr; Jeanette Steemers (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2017), xiii, 248 pp., bibliogr. p.227-241

ISBN 978-1-78453-505-6 (pbk); 978-1-35098-567-4 (online); 978-1-78673-093-0 (pdf)

"Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at child... more

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Media, revolution and politics in Egypt: the story of an uprising

Abdalla F. Hassan

London: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 276 pp., chronol. p.223-231, index

ISBN 978-1-78453-218-5

"The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country's democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president's ... 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