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Guth, Stephan. “Twenty-three recent Arabic films ; impressions from two film festivals (Oslo and Tübingen, 2016)”, Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies, 2016, Vol. 16, no. 9, pp.298-326, https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/jais/volume/docs/vol16/v16_09g_guth_299-326.pdf.
Habermas Jürgen, Sara Lennox and Frank Lennox, “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article”, New German Critique, No. 3 (Autumn 1974), pp. 49-55.
Hofheinz, Albrecht. “The Internet in the Arab World: Playground for Political Liberalization”, International Politics and Society, 3, 2005, pp.78–96. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.505.4378&rep=rep1&type=pdf.
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Mahdi, Muhsin. 1995. "From the Manuscript Age to the Age of Printed Books." In George Atiyeh ed., The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp.1-16.
Mohammed El-Nawawy and Sahar Khamis, “Cyberactivists Paving the Way for the Arab Spring: Voices from Egypt, Tunisia and Libya”, CyberOrient, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, 2012, http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7994.
Nordenson, Jon. “Contextualizing Internet Studies: Beyond the Online/Offline Divide”, CyberOrient, Vol. 10, Iss. 1, 2016, http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9771.
Nordenson, Jon. Fra Oppr?r til Kaos, Midt?sten etter den arabiske v?ren. Oslo: Universitetsforlag, 2018. [ "Hvem, hva og hvorfor", pp. 185 – 206; "Internettoppr?r?", pp 195 - 206, "Aktivismen vokser frem" pp 134 – 151].
Ong, Walter, “Writing Restructures Consciousness”, in Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen, 1982, pp. 77-115.
Pepe, Teresa. “?When Writers Activate Readers. How the autofictional blog transforms Arabic Literature”, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 15, 2015, pp. 73-91.
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Sajdi, Dana. “A Room of His Own: the 'History' of the Barber of Damascus (fl. 1762),” The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 4, 2004, pp. 19–35. (see also: Dana Sajdi - The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQlAQLSFqk8).
Sajdi, Dana. “Print and Its Discontents.” The Translator, 15:1, 2014, pp. 105-138.
Schoeler, Gregor. “Writing and Publishing on the Use and Function of Writing in the First Centuries of Islam.” Arabica, vol. 44, no. 3, 1997, pp. 423–435.
Seib Philip, “Al Jazeera”. In Helmut K. Anheier & Mark Juergensmeyer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Studies, 2012, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, p. 53.
Selim, Samah. “The People's Entertainments: Translation, Popular Fiction, and the Nahdah in Egypt,” in Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature, Brenda Deen Schildgen, Gang Zhou, Sander L. Gilman eds., New York, Palgrave Mac Millan, 2006, pp. 35-58.
Shafik, Viola. “The History of Arab Cinema”. In Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2008, pp. 9-45.
Sheehi Stephen, Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 439-449, https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-2-439.
Sreberny, Annabelle. “The Analytic Challenges of Studying the Middle East and its Evolving Media Environment.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 1, 1, 2008, pp. 8-23.
Toorawa, Shawkat. “From Memory to Written Records” and “The Presence and Insistence of Books”. In Shawkat Toorawa, Ibn Abī ?āhir ?ayfūr and Arabic Writerly Culture: a Ninth-Century Bookman in Baghdad, London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, pp. 1-17; 18-34.