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Independent Media in Lebanon: Content Analysis and Public Appeal

Jaber Bakr, Karim Safieddine, Jad Safwan, Nada Sleiman

Friedrich Naumann Stiftung;Samir Kassir Foundation (2020), 54 pp.

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Public Media Accountability: Media Journalism, Engaged Publics and Critical Media Literacy in the MENA

Abeer Al-Najjar

London: LSE Middle East Centre (2020), 22 pp.

"This study examines the ways in which Arab citizens, as media users, could be enabled to influence news media conduct and thus enhance media practicioners’ commitment toward ethical journalistic practices and standards, particularly accuracy, balance and fairness. It aims to explore the possibili ... more

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Digitally Mediated Art in the War Zone: The Aesthetics of Resilience in Yemen

Nurgul Oruc

CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 4-37

"This article traces how Yemeni artists have intervened in the representation of the conflict and war in Yemen since 2011. It analyzes the heterogonous artistic forms, contents, and representational strategies that Yemeni artists and filmmakers have employed to express their collective concerns over ... more

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Muslim Online Prayer in a Sociocultural Context

Wael Hegazy

CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 64-84

"The article argues that the debate over the online prayer is not just an ordinary fatwa issued by religious scholars for the Muslim Ummah, but it rather goes through a complicated process of social, identarian, cultural, authoritative, and transnational caveats. The physicality entailed by this deb ... more

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Libya Social Media Monitoring Report: Main Findings

Democracy Reporting International;ZINC Network (2020), 10 pp.

"This report presents our main findings from eleven months of social media monitoring. We identify the main narratives of online discourse and their key drivers, as well as the weaknesses of Libya’s social media landscape — and how to address them." (Summary)

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A Gender Analysis of the Media Landscape in Iraq

Aida Kaisy

Washington, DC; London: Internews (2020), 35 pp.

"Corrupt practices, political financing and institutionalised patriarchal systems have seen the media fail to provide equitable coverage of women’s issues or indeed include women as decision-makers organisationally. Both the audience and media stakeholders are acutely aware of the lack of ethical ... more

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Political Parallelism in Transitional Media Systems: The Case of Libya

Anja Wollenberg, Carola Richter

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1173-1193

"Among the media systems in transitional countries of the Middle East and North Africa, political parallelism has become a widespread feature that has both promoted and undermined the transition to democracy. Political parallelism refers to structural ties between media organizations and political a ... more

Off and Online Journalism and Corruption: International Comparative Analysis

Basyouni Hamada, Saodah Wok (eds.)

London: Intech Open (2020), various pag.

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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden

welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33

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Journalism and the Challenge of Democracy in Transitional Countries: African Experiences

Jacob Høigilt, Kjetil Selvik (eds.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 7 (2020), pp. 591-681

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Digital Media, Young Adults, and Religion: An International Perspective

Marcus Moberg, Sofia Sjö (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xi, 179 pp.

"Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the international research project Young Adults and Rel ... more

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"Big Changes Start Small": Stories of People Making a Difference. An Impact Report

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 97 pp.

"DW Akademie collects and documents the impacts of its projects through a range of methods. There are three approaches that are currently standard in development cooperation: Applied studies, which enable new insights on impacts, impact-oriented monitoring performed with local partners in the course ... more

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Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies

Simon Stjernholm, Elisabeth Özdalga (eds.)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2020), 226 pp.

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Digital Inequalities in the Global South

Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp.

"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, ... more

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Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization

Paaige K. Turner, Soumia Bardhan, Tracey Quigley Holden, Eddah M. Mutua (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), 316 pp.

"This book provides exemplars of how the Communication discipline and curriculum are responding to the demands of globalization and contributing to the internationalization of higher education. Communication as a discipline provides a strong theoretical and methodological framework for exploring the ... more

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Journalism and Media Education in Times of Conflict: Three Cases from the Arab Region

Rasha Allam, Salma El Ghetany

Arab Media & Society, issue 29 (2020), pp. 43-54

"This paper examines the journalism and media education programs in three countries in the Arab region (Libya, Syria, Yemen) that have been or are still in the throes of civil wars and/or polarization along conflicting political ideologies and control of different geographical zones. Based on an onl ... more

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"Big changes start small": Geschichten von Menschen, die etwas bewegen. Ein Wirkungsbericht

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 97 pp.

"Die DW Akademie sammelt und dokumentiert die Wirkungen ihrer Projekte auf verschiedenen Ebenen, mit verschiedenen Methoden. Dazu zählen zunächst drei Wege, die heute Standard in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit sind: erstens angewandte Studien, die neues Wissen über Wirkungen ermöglichen, zweiten ... more

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Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: A Journalist's Handbook
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UNFPA Arab States Regional Humanitarian Response Hub, 2nd ed. (2020), 35 pp.

"By not adhering to rigid standards of professionalism, journalists can unwittingly become part of the problem, causing further trauma to survivors and allowing perpetrators to evade prosecution [...] This handbook was developed to help journalists report on gender-based violence (GBV) with greater ... more

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Evaluation of UNESCO’s Work in the Thematic Area of Media and Information Literacy (MIL)

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 128 pp.

"Overall, this evaluation has shown that over the last biennia UNESCO has made significant achievements through its work in MIL and is holding the lead in this constantly evolving field that has gained increasing importance at the forefront of global and national agendas. It also revealed that MIL o ... more

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Arab Resistance in the diaspora: Comparing the Saudi dissident and the Egyptian whistleblower

Sahar Khamis, Randall Fowler

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 13, issue 1 (2020), pp. 31-49

"While much research on Arab and Muslim diasporas in the West focuses on the War(s) on Terror, in this article, we explore how two particular diasporic groups, Egyptian and Saudi activists, work to shape public perceptions of the authoritarian regimes in their countries of origin. Contextualizing th ... more

Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: A Journalist's Handbook Key Guidance

Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: A Journalist's Handbook
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