Children acquire communication skills within a socially and culturally influenced context. Communication professionals need to be aware of the ways cultural differences influence communication. This article describes the influence of cultural backgrounds on communication patterns along a continuum of behaviors. The purpose is to review relevant literature as an operating framework for professio…
The Sudanese feminist movement crystallized in the political and social field, and it was brought into existence from the stage of secrecy and the feminist cultural and charitable societies, whose activity was initially limited to teaching women to read, write, and sew, so its role later turned to fighting the customs and traditions that prevent women from exercising their rights like men, so t…
Anyone attempting to write a book on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) needs to be selective, for SLA is, in fact, an umbrella term for a wealth of topics, ranging from language learning theories to language teaching methods and techniques, from individual and psychological issues to sociological and multicultural issues, and from macro bilingual education policies to micro classroom management…
This article uses content analysis to investigate how Al Jazeera English (AJE) and the BBC framed the Egyptian revolution that took place in Cairo at the beginning of 2011. It analyzes a sample of 250 articles to understand how AJE and the BBC implemented five frames: attribution of responsibility; conflict; human interest; economic; and morality. As a result, AJE and the BBC had the similar te…
Information about a round table organized by the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies at the "2010 World Congress of Middle East Studies" held in Barcelona, Spain is presented. The aim of the round table was to bring to the attention of the global community of Middle East Studies academics and policy makers a new form of attack on critical thought and journalism. The round table …
With the development of mobile internet technology and hardware of computer and cellphone, news reading is transformed from paper media to mobile application for the technical characters of Internet Plus, which becomes daily reading habit and lifestyle trend of wireless communication, and deeply influences the development of the present news publishing industry. By the case study on news APP, t…
We are presently witnessing a great shift in how young people learn and in the benefits that social software has to offer. New technologies can augment and build on traditional forms of social learning, giving birth to an improved and more multifaceted approach to knowledge acquisition that complements the current more general shift toward an increasingly technological world. The purpose of thi…
The research problem lies in the ambiguity of the usage of propaganda contents by two main media outlets (the Russian RT and American Alhurra) in their news coverage of the Syrian crisis through their websites and the methods used by them to convince users taking into account the mutual propaganda conflict between the United States and Russia in the war against Syria. The objectives of the rese…