The article reports on the Filastiniyat Women Journalists' Club in Gaza which offer activities that facilitate the discussion of differing viewpoints, and support the public sphere participation of women and the youth in 2014.
Major international conflicts tend to receive intensified media coverage, which is often framed differently when compared across distinct news networks. This study compares the framing of the 2014 Gaza War by two news organizations operating inside the United States at the time, CNN and Al Jazeera America (AJAM). A content analysis of 74 online news articles during the 50-day war was conducted …
The Syrian conflict has challenged both the ways of reporting war and its impact on the public. However, only a few empirical studies have tried to assess public reactions to representations of war. In this paper, we use an empirically-based study that combines quantitative and qualitative methods to assess how Swiss audiences react to crisis reporting and visual news framing in French-speaking…
According to studies globally, new media excludes climatic and geographical boundaries from the scope of the power of governments. By influencing the feeling of personal security and freedom, it empowers people and facilitates the shaping of human behavioral elements. These technologies provide the necessary platform for the emergence of new actors and open competition with traditional powers, …
The study aimed to identify the forms of service content provided in the Egyptian digital media platforms, as well as to know the most important technical forms that are presented, through a qualitative analysis of a deliberate sample of the entire specialized sites in services (Cairo 360 site – 5khtawat site), and general sites specializing a part Including the services (Masrawy website - Do…
The author stresses the need for honest journalists when writing and reporting about the Middle East. He comments on the stereotyping that supported colonial designs of the past and the polarization of the Middle East media that resulted from the Arab Spring. He suggests steps journalists can take to escape the entrapment of what he calls as journalistic hustling, particularly human rights advo…
The purpose of the research is to identify the motives behind the use of the smartphones by students of the University of Jordan. Moreover, identifying the reasons for its widespread use, the credibility of the news published in electronic newspapers, the extent of their dependence on them, and the extent of their interaction with them. The purpose of the paper also is to detect the existence o…
Within the growing research in the field of communication, discourse analysts have given a noticeable interest to news by considering it an autonomous type of discourse. It has been shown in this perspective that news discourse possesses institutional features that distinguish it, given its communicative goal of addressing the public and highlighting events that would otherwise go unnoticed. Th…
No sane journalist or journalism student wakes up one day and says, "I'm going to model my career after Jayson Blair." Yet the numbers of perpetrators of plagiarism and story fabrication grow as journalists resign or are forced out under suspicion: Robin Gregg at the New York Post, Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle and USA Today's Jack Kelley. Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg angrily defende…