Modern Egyptian media: transformations, paradoxes, debates and comparative pe…

This article analyses the transition, complexity and dynamics of the modern Egyptian media landscape. It sheds light on some of the most important transformations, paradoxes and debates pertaining to this changing media landscape, and it explores some western theoretical perspectives and questions their validity as comparative perspectives for analysing modern Egyptian media. The article overvi…

The Emerging Foundations of a Growing Field of Inquiry. E-JOURNAL

The article reports on the Third Annual Doctoral Symposium on Arab & Muslim Media Research of the Centre for Arab and Muslim Media Research (CAMMRO) held at the University of London in London, England on April 25, 2009. It describes the speeches of Dr. Makram KhouryMachool of the University of Hertfordshire, the journalist M. Said Mahfouz, and researcher Sarah Jurkiewicz. Among the topics of th…

Arab women journalists dismantling the stereotypes. E-JOURNAL

The author considers the stereotypes surrounding Arab women journalists. She believes that Arab women were poorly served and manifested in Arab mass media. She mentions factors that helped Arab women journalists to enhance their career in the field of media professionalism. She looks at the catalysts for increasing women's participation.

Framing the Egyptian Revolution: A content analysis of Al Jazeera English and…

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…

A Lack of Balance: An Examination of Local Detroit, Michigan, Newspaper Cover…

By examining source use and the emergence of frames, this study analyzes news coverage of the 2006 War in Lebanon and 2008–2009 War in Gaza in two local newspapers in Detroit, Michigan, USA: The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. Metropolitan Detroit is home to the largest concentration of Arab individuals outside of the Middle East, as well as a substantial Jewish population, making it…

New media and the Arab revolution: Citizen reporters and social activism. E-J…

The author discusses the role of new mass media in sustaining the momentum of the Arab revolution by broadcasting uncensored developments on the Internet. The popularity of political protests across the Middle East was marked by the development of satellite technology and growth of television channels such as Al-Jazeera, BBC Arabic, France 24 and Al-Hiwar. A new form of citizen journalism agais…

Muslims in Western Media: New Zealand Newspapers' Construction of 2006 Terror…

This study critically examines the representation of the 2006 “suspected aircraft terror plot” at Heathrow Airport in London by three mainstream newspapers in New Zealand—theOtago Daily Times, thePress(Press) and theNew Zealand Herald. It seeks to illustrate how these newspapers espoused an Orientalist view of “Islamic Other” in framing the issue by representing Islam and Muslims as…

Idolatry versus authenticity: A lexical and systemic-functional analysis of t…

This article investigates the way (catholic) religion and youth are represented in different Flemish newspapers. The case of World Youth Day (WYD) 2005 offers a well-defined corpus, which is very suitable for an analysis of the discourse on religion, youth and media. Based on a linguistic analysis of the corpus, we have been able to describe the representation given to the WYD, of the presenc…

After the Arab Uprisings: The Prospects for a Media that Serves the Public. E…

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Issue 24

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1687-7721

Deskripsi Fisik

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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Lebanese Media Crisis and the Future. E-JOURNAL

The Lebanese school of journalism and media was once famous for its highest standards and being a power-house in the entire region. From its first days of creation in 1858 till its peaks in the 1970’s through 1990’s hundreds of media outlets and a huge flurry of writers, creators, media outlets were competing furiously at the highest standards. Then the bubble burst and rapidly day by day m…