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Exit and Voice in a Digital Age: Iran's Exiled Activists and the Authoritarian State

Marcus Michaelsen

Globalizations, volume 13 (2016), pp. 1-17

"This paper shows how digital communication technologies enable new and influence established tactics of state repression beyond borders. Based on interviews with Iranian activists and journalists who were forced to leave the country after the controversial elections of 2009, I analyze mechanisms an ... more

Using Social Media for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation in the MENA Region: World Food Programme Case Study

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2016), 42 pp.

"This report presents an evaluation of the utility of social media for conducting research, monitoring and evaluation in the MENA region, using a case study approach. The Twitter based reaction to the reported cancellation/reduction of food provision by World Food Programme (WFP) for Syrian Refuges ... more

Gendering War and Peace Reporting: Some Insights – Some Missing Links

Berit von der Lippe, Rune Ottosen (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 278 pp.

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Investigative Journalism in the Arab World: Issues and Challenges

Saba Bebawi

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 175 pp.

"This is the first book that looks into the state and role of investigate journalism in the Arab world. It explores the vital role the media could potentially play in informing and empowering society, to assist in opening up the communicative space in a region where this has previously been taboo." ... more

Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance

Can Candan, Suncem Kocer

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.

"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as ... more

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Social Media in the Arab World: Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States

Barrie Gunter, Mokhtar Elareshi, Khalid Al-Jaber (eds.)

London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp.

"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp ... more

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Information to Go: How Do Refugees from Syria and Iraq Find the Right Information, Before, During and After Their Journeys to Germany?

Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2016), 10 pp.

"Between November 2015 and February 2016, MICT conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with a total of 88 Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Berlin. The central aim of the interviews was to investigate which sources of information refugees were using, before, during and after their transit, in orde ... more

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Media and Peace in the Middle East: The Role of Journalism in Israel-Palestine

Giuliana Tiripelli

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 191 pp.

"In exploring the dynamics and narratives of peace in journalism, this book explains the media's impact on the transformation of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. It discusses the perspectives of peace activists who have been involved in grassroots action since the first Intifada, and ... more

Syrian Refugee Journalists Leaving ... To Tell the Tale

Mansour Omari

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2016), 16 pp.

"After the Syrian uprising morphed into an armed struggle, the Syrian government increasingly lost control over vast areas of territory. With the loss of State control, its imposed rule on media faded, enabling media to flourish in those areas. In territories it still controlled, its grip became eve ... more

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Out of Syria, Inside Facebook

Dona Abboud

Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst (2016), 224 pp.

"During her studies at the University for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig, Dona Abboud had mostly only contact via Facebook with her family and friends in Syria. The book presents 10 Syrian men and women with almost 2000 photos of their Facebook pages, supplemented by interviews and short biographi ... more

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Ethnic Media, Conflict, and the Nation-State: Kurdish Broadcasting in Turkey and Europe and Mediated Nationhood

Kevin Smets

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 5 (2016), pp. 738-754

"Drawing on fieldwork among Kurdish broadcasters in Turkey and Europe, this article shows how ethnic media mediate nationhood in a conflict context. Despite rising interest in the media-nationhood nexus, and the expansion of studies on ethnic media, little is known about ethnic media in conflicts in ... more

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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien

Jörg Becker

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), ix, 404 pp.

"Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft ... more

Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in the Syria Crisis: Facilitator’s Guide

Qaid Saeed, Ruba Hikmat, Jennifer Miquel

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2016), 73 pp.

"The purpose of the training workshop in this manual is to improve the skills of media professionals and communication officers in reporting gender-based violence in humanitarian crisis settings; to enhance the quality of reporting by instilling ethical principles; and to increase awareness among th ... more

"Wir brechen gerade alle Tabus"

Jaafar Abdul Karim, Simone Schlindwein

Medium Magazin, issue 11 (2016), pp. 30-34

"Der junge Deutsch-Araber Jaafar Abdul Karim ist ein Star im arabischen Programm der Deutschen Welle. Simone Schlindwein, Afrika-Korrespondentin der taz, sprach mit ihm über Journalismus in Zeiten der Radikalisierung im In- und Ausland." (Seite 30)

Egypt's Blasphemy Laws

Washington, DC: Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (2016), 5 pp.

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Religion, Communications, and Judaism: The Case of Digital Chabad

Menahem Blondheim, Elihu Katz

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 89-95

"In their article on 'Building the Sacred Community Online', Oren Golan and Nurit Stadler zoom in on the latest attempts of Chabad, the extrovert Jewish Hasidic group, to harness the newest digital technologies to propagate and popularize its staunchly traditionalist reading of Jewish heritage. Also ... more

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Syria Audience Research 2016

Anke Fiedler, Bart Veenstra, Dirk Spilker

Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT);Free Press Unlimited (2016), 82 pp.

"In Syria, television is the dominant media type with high usage and availability rates in all areas studied. Television is followed by online media, print media, and finally radio. Media aligned with the Syrian government are leading in government-controlled areas, and opposition-aligned media are ... more

Die Medien: Eine bedrohte demokratische Kultur, eine dynamische Industrie

Jérôme Bourdon

In: Länderbericht Israel

Gisela Dachs (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), pp. 692-708

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Block Her Entry, Keep Her Down and Push Her Out: Gender Discrimination and Women Journalists in the Arab World

Jad P. Melki, Sarah E. Mallat

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2016), pp. 57-79

"This study examines why female journalists in an Arab country continue to be marginalized. It hypothesized that a set of interrelated factors, pertaining to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and the lack of a legally and socially enabling environment, work together to systematically discour ... more