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Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging

Fiona Blaikie (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), 293 pp.

"Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South, chapters explore expressions and performances of youth and young adults as shifting and entangled, in and through the clothed body, gender, sexuality, race, artistic and pedagogical making practices, in spaces an ... more

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Nouvelles voix, Aswat jadida: Dix ans d’évolutions dans les médias arabes

Aswat Jadida

Issy-les-Moulineaux: CFI (2021), 66 pp.

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USAID/Iraq: Perception and Opinion Study

Management Systems International (MSI);USAID (2021), iv, 57 pp.

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Archives and Human Rights

Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxi, 330 pp.

"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the ... more

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The Celluloid Ceiling: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Israeli Film Industry

Lior Elefant, Etty Konor-Attias, Yael Hasson, Noga Dagan-Buzaglo

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Adva Center (2021), 86 pp.

"This report examines the Israeli film industry from the perspective of gender. Over the past twenty years, there has been a growing involvement of women in the Israeli film industry. Since the establishment of Israel and up until the year 2000, women directed a mere 7% of screened Israeli narrative ... more

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The Gender Dimensions of Foreign Influence Operations

Samantha Bradshaw, Amélie Henle

International Journal of Communication, volume 15 (2021), pp. 4596-4618

"Drawing on a qualitative analysis of 7,506 tweets by state-sponsored accounts from Russia’s GRU and the Internet Research Agency (IRA), Iran, and Venezuela, this article examines the gender dimensions of foreign influence operations. By examining the political communication of feminism and women� ... more

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MEDIAting Theology

Jione Havea (ed.)

Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (2021), 209 pp.

"The intersection of media with theology is reciprocating: media boosts theology in its functions to inform, connect and educate; theology humbles the globalizing media with a reminder – media is in mediation but not in domination. Media and theology thus intersect at mediating (negotiating, inter ... more

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Media Development in Practice: Innovation for Dialogue. New Approaches and Innovative Solutions to Improve Public Dialogue in the Digital Era

Liudmila Corlateanu, Julius Endert, Magnus Kossmann, Attila Mong et al.

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 26 pp.

"In Moldova, a series of hackathons led to the development of tech-based solutions to misinformation. In Ecuador, indigenous groups wrote their own stories on Wikipedia to strengthen their culture's representation and publicly correct misinformation. In Uganda, citizen journalists established a netw ... more

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How Does the Political Enter the Newsroom? The Representation of the Kurdish ‘Other’ in Turkish Journalism

Ozan Asik

Journalism, volume 23, issue 11 (2021), pp. 2434-2451

"In this article, I examine how journalists working for the Turkish national mainstream televisual media represent Kurds – a significant national ‘Other’ of Turkish society – in the process of news production. My research is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted between 20 ... more

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Tunisia Media Landscape Assessment

Internews;USAID (2021), 75 pp.

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Ethnic Journalism in the Global South

Anna Gladkova Jamil, Sadia

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiii, 319 pp.

"This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission. The book discusses journalistic practices and ethnic media in the Global South, managerial and editorial strategies of ethnic media outlets, their content spec ... more

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Migration et médias dans la région Euro-Méditerranéenne: Un guide pour les journalistes

Magda Abu-Fadil

Union européenne (2021), 74 pp.

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Digital Civil Society: (Dis-) Connected

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2021), 52 pp.

"This publication is a collection of a variety of outlooks, recommendations, and input from the participants of the 2020 workshop [for fellows of the CrossCulture Programme (CCP) of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen] and others. On the subject of digital access, CCP alumnus Camilo Olea speaks ab ... more

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The new constitution freezing the press: Freedom of expression and statutory limitations in Libya

Miral Sabry AlAshry

Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 8, issue 1 (2021), 16 pp.

"This study examined the Libyan conflict which started in 2011 until now. In the same way, the study also focused on how Libyan journalists are fighting for media freedom, particularly in the context of the media laws in the new Constitution of 2017. Through focus group discussions were done with 40 ... more

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Media Dependency, Selective Exposure and Trust During War: Media Sources and Information Needs of Displaced and Non-Displaced Syrians

Jad Melki, Claudia Kozman

Media, War & Conflict, volume 14, issue 1 (2021), pp. 93-113

"Using the Syrian war as a case study, this article examines the theoretical frameworks of media dependency and selective exposure during the war. Through a survey of 2,192 Syrians living in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey during the conflict, the study examined the media needs and trust of four ... more

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FM radio and the Malayali diaspora in Qatar: At home overseas

Irene Ann Promodh

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, volume 47, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1957-1975

"Recent scholarship on trans-oceanic exchanges between the Persian Gulf and South Asia has delved into previously neglected minutiae of everyday migrant life beyond labour. Combining ethnographic research and media content analyses, I build on this scholarship through a novel study of vernacular rad ... more

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Digital Skills Insights

Geneva: ITU (2021), xii, 142 pp.

"The eight articles in the publication can be broadly grouped into two main sets. The first set discusses the different types of digital skills required from a more academic perspective, in particular in the context of the pandemic and post-pandemic period, as countries accelerate their move towards ... more

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Digital trends in the Arab States region 2021: Information and communication technology trends and developments in the Arab States region, 2017-2020

Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 52 pp.

"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, access and use in the ITU Arab States region, which includes 21 Member States plus the State of Palestine under Resolution 99 (Rev. Dubai, 2018), and is home to a population ... more

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Regional E-Waste Monitor for the Arab States

Giulia Iattoni, Elise Vermeersch, Cornelis Peter Baldé, Innocent Chidi Nnorom, Ruediger Kuehr

Bonn: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP);United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR);ITU;United Nations University (UNU) (2021), 103 pp.

"The key statistical findings for the region are that electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) placed on the market (POM) increased by 30 per cent from 3.2 megatons (Mt), or 8.8 kilograms per inhabitant (kg/inh), in 2010 to 4.1 Mt (or 9.5 kg/inh) in 2019. The Arab States mostly import, rather than ... more

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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Arab States region

Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 79 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Arab States region through ICT-centric innovation policy monitors, and an insight into how good practices can strengthen capacity to mainstream ICT innovation into national development agendas. It showcases a number of c ... more