Existing research has explored the ways the mainstream news media covers Muslims and Islam, but few studies have examined Muslims’ reactions to this reporting. Studies that have investigated this issue have identified that the responses of Muslims to news media coverage tend to be largely negative because of the lack of Muslim news sources, the stereotypical representation of Muslims in news …
In the late eighth decade of the last century, Algeria witnessed an important political event that resulted from the Constitution of February 23, 1989, through which the first foundations for political pluralism were laid, according to which media pluralism was produced, and this was manifested in the written press sector, which witnessed an unprecedented qualitative and quantitative develo…
Social media can be defined as a class of online interchange channels dedicated to group-based information, content-sharing, connection, and association (Asur and Huberman, 2010). Several prominent social networking venues include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Media practitioners, in particularly news editors, have taken these platforms to gather, report and share stories to their audience.…
This article engages al-Kawakibi’s Taba’i‘ al-istibdad (The Characteristics of Oppression) as an instance of how Nahda writing dealt with the anxieties and ambivalence inherent in Ottoman Arab modernity. The Aleppine author was a political philosopher who universalized the Arab Muslim as a political subject. The article examines how al-Kawakibi defined “oppression” and “tyranny” a…
This study aims to identify the features of the Electronic Journalism and its reflections on the Jordanian Press from the viewpoint of a sample of the media and journalists. It also aims to find differences in the averages of their responses on that according to some demographic and functional variables. The study relied on a descriptive analytical approach where the sub-sample survey consisted…
This article explores the uses of sources in the news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kuwait between 1 January and 31 December 2020. Our study analyses the sources and actors that were presented in 673 news stories on COVID-19 that were published in nine outlets, comparing media platforms and across time as the pandemic evolved. Our results show that political sources dominated these stori…
It is possible to consider the relationship between official authorities and journalism in Iraq during the royal reign one of the most problematic issues, where these authorities endeavored to obstruct the work of journalism and restrict its freedom for the sake of imposing de facto. But it does not come to their minds that preventing journalism and muffling its freedom is like changing the rea…
Changes experienced throughout human life, along with the development of technology and social media tools, also affect human behavior. In this change and development process, people adapted to social media tools and started to use them for various purposes. Increasing interest in gastronomy, which is a popular field, and the intensity of Instagram use have progressed in parallel, but there hav…
After many decades of heavily relying on local newspapers and controlled radio and TV, many Kuwaitis switched to the Internet to obtain information, news and political analysis. The political dispute of power after the death of Kuwaiti Emir Sheik Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on 15 January 2006, followed by parliament's demands to change the electoral constituencies voting system of the National Asse…