Naomi Sakr (ed.): Women and Media in The Middle East. Power Through Self-expression (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · civil society, feminism, film, gender, islam, journalism, literacy, mass media, middle east, public broadcasting
Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women filmmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender boundaries have been erected or crossed.
Publisher I.B.Tauris, 2004
Volume 41 of Library of modern Middle East studies
ISBN 1850435456, 9781850435457
Length 248 pages
Emmanuel Goldstein: The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · computing, hacker culture, hacking, security, technology
Since 1984, the quarterly magazine 2600 has provided fascinating articles for readers who are curious about technology. Find the best of the magazine’s writing in Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey, a collection of the strongest, most interesting, and often most controversial articles covering 24 years of changes in technology, all from a hacker’s perspective. Included are stories about the creation of the infamous tone dialer “red box” that allowed hackers to make free phone calls from payphones, the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the insecurity of modern locks.
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-29419-2
888 pages
World-Information: Special IP Edition & IP City Edition (2003, 2005)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · democracy, digital human rights, human rights, media activism, politics, technology
World-Information.Org is a trans-national cultural intelligence provider, a collaborative effort of artists, scientists and technicians. It is a practical example for a technical and contextual environment for cultural production and an independent platform of critical media intelligence. Through artistic and scientific exploration of information and communication technologies World-Information.Org disseminates an understanding of their cultural, societal and political implications, and fosters future cultural practice. World-Information.Org is an agent of digital democratisation and the pursuit of digital human rights. Enlightening the opportunities, challenges and risks of information and communication technology, World-Information.Org provides information necessary for a democratic development of society, culture and politics.
Special IP Edition
World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, 10-12 December 2003
Editors: Eva Pressl, Wolfgang Suetzl
Concept: Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder
Production: Wolfgang Brunner
Published by World-Information.Org, Vienna
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 License
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IP City Edition
World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, 16-18 November 2005
World-Information City, Bangalore, 14-20 November 2005
Editors: Wolfgang Suetzl, Christine Mayer
Concept: Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder
Production: Andrea Ressi
Published by World-Information.Org, Insitute for New Culture Technologies/t0 Netbase, Vienna
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License
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