Lebanon
The Arab Social Media report series has explored the growth and usage trends of social media in the Arab region in depth since 2011. The series has become the key source of quantitative research on social media’s growth and usage trends in the Arab world. Additionally, Arab Social Media report...
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
This study investigates patterns of consumption of Arab Spring–related content using a unique data set constructed by combining archived Twitter content with metadata drawn from the URL shortening service Bit.ly. This data set allows to explore two critical research questions: First, were links...
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
Social media in the Arab world before the recent revolutions had been described as marginal, alternative and elitist, and their impact minimal because of the low penetration rates of the internet. The 2011 events across the Arab world have brought ‘social media’ to the forefront, with many...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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نظرا للأهمية التي تحظى بها المحكمة الخاصة بلبنان بالنسبة للبلد والمنطقة، فإنه من الواضح أن جميع جوانب عملها - بما في ذلك حماية سرية الشهود - هي مواضيع مشروعة تهم المصلحة العامة للجمهور اللبناني والعالم بأسره. لذلك، وفقا للمعايير الدولية لحرية التعبير، فإنه ليس فقط من حق الصحافة طلب المعلومات ونشرها...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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This report examines the Constitution and the audio-visual legal framework of Lebanon and identifies the areas that do not meet international standards of best practice and might benefit from review and harmonisation. To this end, it recommends changes to the legal framework aimed at enhancing the...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
Global Media Monitoring Project 2015 key findings suggest there have been only slight improvements in the past 20 years considering women’s inclusion in the global media. For example, since 2005 the overall number of women newsmakers rose only by 1 percent – up to 24 percent in total in the...
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Friday, November 25, 2016
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Over the past several years, the Arab world has been characterised by an increasingly polarised political discourse. ‘After the Arab uprisings: the prospects for a media that serves the public’ looks at the state of broadcast media in the region, four years after the 2011 uprisings. It focuses on...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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يقدم هذا التقرير نظرة عامة حول الديناميكيات التي تسم وتضفي خصائصها على خطاب الكراهية على الأنترنت، وحول بعض الإجراءات التي تم اعتمادها لمواجهته والتخفيف من حدته، مع تسليط الضوء على الممارسات الجيدة التي انبثقت على المستويين المحلي والعالمي. وإذا كانت هذه الدراسة تقدم تحليلاً شاملا للأطر المعيارية...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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This 2015 study provides a global overview of the dynamics characterizing hate speech online and some of the measures that have been adopted to counteract and mitigate it, highlighting good practices that have emerged at the local and global levels. The publication offers a comprehensive analysis...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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Considering the importance of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the country and the region, it is clear that all aspects of its operation – including the protection of confidential witnesses – are topics of legitimate public interest for the Lebanese public and the world at large. Therefore, in...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015