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Behind the Screen: The Syrian Virtual Resistance

Billie Jeanne Brownlee

CyberOrient, volume 11, issue 2 (2017), pp. 4-34

"Six years have gone by since the political upheaval that swept through many Middle East and North African (MENA) countries begun. Syria was caught in the grip of this revolutionary moment, one that drove the country from a peaceful popular mobilisation to a deadly fratricide civil war with no appar ... more

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Global Media Giants
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Benjamin J. Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gómez, Janet Wasko (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 496 pp.

"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C ... more

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Innovative Peacebuilding in Syria: A Scoping Study of the Strategic Use of Technology to Build Peace in the Syrian Context

British Council (2016), 24 pp.

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L'impact du jihad virtuel

Romain Quivooij

Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 184 pp.

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Atlas des Arabischen Frühlings: Eine Weltreligion im Umbruch
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Daniel Gerlach, Moritz Behrendt, Robert Chatterjee, Laura Ginzel, Florian Guckelsberger, Vinzenz Hokema, Julia Joerin, Christian Meier (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 333 pp.

"Der Atlas stellt anhand von Texten, Grafiken und Illustrationen die wichtigsten Ereignisse und Protagonisten der sozialen und politischen Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt vor. Er beleuchtet speziell auch die regionalen wie globalen Auswirkungen. Dabei kommen ganz wesentlich Journalisten und Wissens ... more

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Palestinian Youth Media and the Pedagogies of Estrangement

Sanjay Asthana, Nishan Havandjian

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 193 pp.

"Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic space ... more

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Media and Political Participation in North Africa

Mathilde Maurel, Charlemagne Nikiema

Fondation pour les Études e Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI) (2016), 29 pp.

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Mediated Identities and New Journalism in the Arab World: Mapping the "Arab Spring"

Aziz Douai, Mohamed Ben Moussa (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 214 pp.

"This book looks into the role played by mediated communication, particularly new and social media, in shaping various forms of struggles around power, identity and religion at a time when the Arab world is going through an unprecedented period of turmoil and upheaval. The book provides unique and m ... more

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The Lebanese Media: Anatomy of a System in Perpetual Crisis

Sarah El-Richani

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xix, 228 pp.

"This work has striven to examine the Lebanese media system from a comparative perspective by applying the Hallin and Mancini theoretical framework. This has helped illuminate salient factors influencing the Lebanese media system. The use of the framework also revealed the necessity of considerable ... more

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Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa

Amanda B. Click, Sumayya Ahmed, Jacob Hill, John D. Martin (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2016), xiii, 355 pp.

"Offers up-to-date insights into the state of library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa. Covered topics include information literacy, intellectual property, LIS education and research, publishing and more. This timely contribution thus presents vital areas of research ... more

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The Islamic State's Global Propaganda Strategy

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Nathaniel Barr, Bridget Moreng

The Hague: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) (2016), 83 pp.

"This Research Paper aims to analyse in depth the global propaganda strategy of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) by looking at the methods through which this grand strategy is carried out as well as the objectives that IS wants to achieve through it. The authors first discuss IS’ growth mode ... more

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El mundo árabo-islámico como ellas nos lo contaron: Las periodistas de TVE en Oriente Medio y Norte de África. Cuatro décadas de mujer e información

Carmen V. Valiña

Madrid: Clave Intelectual (2016), 264 pp.

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Executive Summary: Advertising Expenditure Forecasts March 2016

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 10 pp.

"ZenithOptimedia predicts global ad expenditure will grow 4.6% in 2016, reaching US$579 billion by the end of the year. This will be a 0.7 percentage point improvement on 2015: 2016 is a ‘quadrennial’ year, when ad expenditure is boosted by the Summer Olympics, the US presidential election and t ... more

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The War Correspondent

Greg McLaughlin

London: Pluto Press, 2nd ed. (2016), x, 267 pp.

"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents ... more

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Ratings, the State and Globalization: The Politics of Television Audience Measurement in Israel

Jérôme Bourdon, Nahuel Ribke

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 2 (2016), pp. 159-174

"This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring television audiences, the 'People Meter' (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neoliberal state, which brought about a new relation ... more

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Syria’s Post-Uprising Media Outlets: Challenges and Opportunities in Syrian Radio Startups

Rima Marrouch

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 31 pp.

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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.

"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t ... more

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Journalists in Qatar

Ashraf Galal

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 4 pp.

"With regards to professional role orientations, journalists in Qatar found it most important to influence public opinion, to advocate for social change, to support national development, to report things as they naturally are, to be a detached observer and to support government policy. About half of ... more

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Information to go: Kommunikation im Prozess der Migration am Beispiel syrischer und irakischer Flüchtlinge auf ihrem Weg nach Deutschland

Anke Fiedler

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 6, issue 1 (2016), 25 pp.

"Vor dem Hintergrund der Flüchtlingsdebatte in Deutschland 2015 wird in diesem Beitrag danach gefragt, welche (Massen-)Kommunikationskanäle Flüchtlinge vor, während und nach der Flucht nutzen, um sich über migrationsrelevante Themen zu informieren und sich darüber mit anderen Migrationswillige ... more

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Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity
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Noha Mellor, Khalil Hanna Rinnawi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 288 pp.

"The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture. This book exa ... more

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