This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discriminatio…
Cultural Press attaches of Iraqi newspapers Analytic study for the attaché of Bayna – Nahrain newspaper Media devices play vital role and have many responsibility in the modern society in the cultural, social and political fields. The responsibility of media increased specially after modern Communication revolutionary. Printed newspaper, after invention of the internet, had taken new steps t…
The study aimed to reveal the most important recent trends in digital learning systems research, and future visions for the possibility of using digital education systems in teaching media courses and benefiting from them to achieve the desired educational goals of digital learning systems and their effectiveness in media education, and to identify the most important issues, topics and research…
The digital media is one of the most important means of information that university students use in their daily lives, whether in the field of study or in the process of communicating with others, knowing news, events and obtaining information, as it is easy to use and accessible to all at the lowest cost. This study sought to know the motives for the use of the Saudi universities’ students o…
This study applied news framing theory with mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse news items (N = 1348) about ordinary Arabs on Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Arabiya and Nile News TV shortly before the Arab Spring. Results show that ordinary Arab citizen representation was low. Overall, there were significant differences in networks' framing of ordinary people. Importance, negativity an…
This article interrogates the extent to which ethnic minority media acts as tools for preserving minority cultures and identities and as counter-hegemonic to mainstream media's representations of migrants in South Africa. It also discusses how diasporic ethnic media function as agents of participation for diasporic communities that are struggling to find a 'home' away from home. Mainstream medi…
Background Several technologies have been proposed to support the reduction of insomnia complaints. A user-centered assessment of these technologies could provide insight into underlying factors related to treatment adherence. Objective Gaining insight into adherence to technology-mediated insomnia treatment as a solid base for improving those adherence rates by applying adherence-enha…
The study aims to investigate the transformations that have occurred on television as a result of the growing role of social media platforms, most importantly YouTube. This has changed the way television interacts with the public. Moreover, the study aims to explore the way to maintain the momentum of television through the use of the same communication platforms, specifically YouTube, and prov…
The study was carried out to identify rumors across social platforms from perceptions of anchors and journalists. The study was introduced in several sections, namely, investigate the attitude of Jordanian anchors and journalists toward using social platforms as a source of information and for propagating news, the most spread rumors across social media platform, factors facilitate rumors sprea…
Corruption was among the most serious problems under the rule of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Egyptian political bloggers played a critical role in reporting about the regime's corrupt policies which were among the main factors behind the 2011 Revolution. This study analysed a number of threads selected from four prominent Egyptian political blogs that dealt with the issue of corrup…