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Arab media moguls

Donatella Della Ratta; Naomi Sakr; Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2015), xiii, 233 pp., bibliogr. p.223-228, index

ISBN 978-1-78076-732-1 (pbk); 978-1-7845-3277-2 (hbk); 978-0-7556-0854-6 (online)

"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r... 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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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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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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Contemporary media use in Egypt

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 32 slides

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

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Contemporary media use in Egypt

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 2 pp.

"Television viewing is ubiquitous in Egypt and by far the most common source of information for its residents. Nearly all (98.8%) Egyptians have a working television in their home, while just 37.9% of Egyptians have a radio. The percentage of Egyptians with a radio in their household is down signifi... more

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News media in the Arab world: a study of 10 Arab and Muslim countries

Barrie Gunter; Roger Dickinson (eds.)

New York; London: Bloomsbury (2013), viii, 199 pp., index

ISBN 9781441174666 (pbk); 978-1-4411-0239-3 (ebook)

"News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries is based on ongoing research at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, and has investigated the rapidly changing nature of the news media in Arab countries. They have investigated the role of newspape... 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

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Transformations in Egyptian journalism

Naomi Sakr

London; Oxford: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xviii, 109 pp., chronol. p.xi-xiii, bibliogr. p.106-108

ISBN 978-1-78076-589-1

"Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of actio... more

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Arab cultural studies: mapping the field

Tarik Sabry (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2012), xiv, 321 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-8488-5558-8 (pbk); 978-0-7556-1115-7 (online)

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The geography of foreign news on television: a comparative study of 17 countries

Jürgen Wilke; Christine Heimprecht; Akiba Cohen

International communication gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 301-322

"The project investigated foreign TV news in 17 countries from five regions in the world: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States of America. The data of the content analysis in all... more

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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

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Financially viable media in emerging and developing markets

Anne Nelson (ed.)

Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 118 pp., bibliogr. p.112-117

"This report investigates the relationships between media freedoms, financial sustainability of media in emerging markets, and international media support. It is based on a survey of more than 220 newspapers and media executives in more than sixty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, ... more

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Access to knowledge in Africa: the role of copyright

Chris Armstrong; Jeremy de Beer; Dick Kawooya; Achal Prabhala; Tobias Schonwetter (eds.)

Claremont: UCT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvii, 366 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xii, index

ISBN 978-1-55250-490-1 (ebook); 978-1-91989-545-1 (print) CC BY-NC-SA

"Copyright laws and policies cover many controversial issues that are linked to different disciplines, in science, culture, technology, economics, law and other fields. The concepts and issues in the field are also approached from different perspectives and with different political and economic agen... more

The ethical soundscape: cassette sermons and Islamic counterpublics

Charles Hirschkind

New York: Columbia University Press (2006), xiii, 270 pp., bibliogr. p.247-264, index

ISBN 0231138180 (print); 0231510888 (ebook)

"An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind shows how sermon tapes have provided one of the means by which Islamic ethical traditions have be... more

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People, land and water: participatory development communication for natural resource management

Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.286-303, index

ISBN 1-84407343-2

"This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of communication in order to facilitate participation among stakeholders in natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. It also presents a collection of chapters that focus on participatory development communication and N... more

Egypt: a survey of books and journal markets and the Egyptian book trade

London: International Book Development (IBD) (1990)