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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 240 pp.

"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Madeline Earp, Laura W. Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Ashley Greco-Stoner (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.

"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more

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The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Rafael Obregón, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2012), xx, 658 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. It brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wid ... more

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Safety on the Line: Exposing the Myth of Mobile Communication Security

Cormac Callanan, Hein Dries-Ziekenheiner

Washington, DC: Freedom House; Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) (2012), 175 pp.

"This report evaluates the risks and vulnerabilities of mobile phone services and apps in 12 specified countries: the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, the People’s Republic of China, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Libya, the Sultanate of Oman, the Kingdom ... more

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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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Walking a Tightrope: News Media and Freedom of Expression in the Middle East
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Layla Al-Zubaidi, Susanne Fischer, Magda Abu-Fadil

Beirut: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2nd revised ed. (2012), 161 pp.

"This report reviews the situation in which media operate in the Middle East, specifically in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and also including a short section on Tunisia [...] Part 1 explores the historical development of the media in the region, outlines their structural environment, and ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2012), 273 pp.

"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more

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Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field

Tarik Sabry (ed.)

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

"Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Fieldis the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualizing and theorizing the nascent field of Arab Cultural Studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history, ... more

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Clicks, Cabs, and Coffee Houses: Social Media and Oppositional Movements in Egypt, 2004–2011

Merlyna Lim

Journal of Communication, volume 62 (2012), pp. 231-248

"To deepen our understanding of the relationship between social media and political change during the Egyptian uprising of early 2011, events in Tahrir Square must be situated in a larger context of media use and recent history of online activism. For several years, the most successful social moveme ... more

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Christian Broadcasting: A Critical Assessment

Sameh Fawzy

In: Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East

Khaled Hroub (ed.)

New York: Columbia University Press (2012), pp. 195-217

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Women and the Web: Bridging the Internet Gap and Creating New Global Opportunities in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Yana Watson Kakar, Vicky Hausman, Andria Thomas, Chris Denny-Brown

Santa Clara, Calif.; New York: Intel; Dalberg Global Development Advisors (2012), 100 pp.

"This report [is] the first compilation of the global data on how women in developing countries access and use the Internet. I am convinced this report provides key insights for policy makers, the development community and industry. Based on interviews and surveys of 2,200 women in developing countr ... more

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The Media and the Making of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Amr Osman, Marwa Abdel Samei

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 19 pp.

"While views may differ on the factors that made the 2011 Egyptian revolution possible, the role of mass media will remain undisputable. The Internet-based social networks caught the Mubarak regime by surprise, and the popular disillusionment with the‘national’ media led the public to turn to pr ... more

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Unveiling the Revolutionaries: Cyberactivism and the Role of Women in the Arab Uprisings

Courtney C. Radsch

Houston, Tex.: Rice University, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (2012), 44 pp.

"This is the first scholarly analysis of how young women used social media and cyberactivism to help shape the “Arab Spring” and its aftermath. It argues that women's engagement with social media has coincided with a shift in the political landscape of the Middle East, and it is unlikely that th ... more

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Media Monitoring of the Transitional Phase in Egypt: The Supreme Council of Armed Forces, Justice System, Parties and Elections, July 2011 - January 2012

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information; Egyptian Organization for Human Rights; International Media Support (IMS); Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring (2012), 132 pp.

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Political Activism 2.0: Comparing the Role of Social Media in Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” and Iran’s “Twitter Uprising”

Mohammed El-Nawawy, Sahar Khamis

CyberOrient, volume 6, issue 1 (2012), pp. 8-33

"Social media, particularly blogging, Facebook and Twitter, have played a key role in instigating, accelerating and even organizing some of the uprisings and revolutions that have been taking place all over the Middle East. This role has been effective in galvanizing the youth and empowering them in ... more

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Egyptian E-Diaspora: Migrant Websites Without a Network?

Marta Severo, Eleonora Zuolo

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 19 pp.

"This article investigates the phenomenon of the Egyptian diaspora through an innovative approach based on the analysis of digital activity and the presence of Egyptian connected migrants. Following the methodology of the e-Diasporas project, we found a scarcely connected network of websites, with a ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

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The Potential of Foreign News as International Development Communication

Bella Mody

Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 45-58

"This article investigates what the news says about inequity-driven civil wars and economic underdevelopment. Dewey argued that the lack of causal knowledge that distinguishes between symptoms and root causes would limit potential effective and transformative public action. Political scientists have ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.

"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more

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Newspaper Coverage of the 2011 Protests in Egypt

Nawaf Abdulnabi AlMaskati

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 342-366

"This study analyses the coverage of the 2011 Egyptian protests provided by Al Ahram (Egypt), Arab News (Saudi Arabia), China Daily (China), Guardian International (UK), International Herald Tribune (USA) and Jerusalem Post (Israel), with regard to the type and intensity of the coverage, potential s ... more

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