{"title":"The emerging ‘Alternative’ journalism paradigm: Arab journalists and online news","authors":"Aziz Douai, M. Moussa","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.2.165_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.2.165_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"54 1","pages":"165-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84738313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uses and effects of companies’ Facebook pages among Jordanian users","authors":"Azzam A. H. Elananza, A. Mahmoud","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.2.207_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.2.207_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"207-219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88246590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journalists’ attitudes towards journalism regulations in the Arab world: Oman as a case study","authors":"A. K. Al-Kindi, Bader S. Al-Syabi","doi":"10.1386/jammr.9.2.143_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jammr.9.2.143_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"35 1","pages":"143-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78711055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Al Jazeera and the Australian public broadcasters","authors":"Scott Bridges","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.99_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.99_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"99-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84835443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Set within the wider framework of exploring the relationship between mediated representations of war and public understanding and perception of conflict in the Arab region, this paper focuses on Al-Jazeera coverage of the July war in Lebanon. From a broad theoretical viewpoint, it attempts to deconstruct the ‘ideological model of war’ (Carpentier, 2015) as depicted by Al-Jazeera, through its representation of the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. When Al-Jazeera framed it as the ‘6th war’, it added Israel’s attack on Lebanon to the series of five episodes of the Arab-Israeli conflict; this war follows the 1948 Palestine War, the Suez War in 1956, the June War of 1967, and the October 1973 War. Stemming from the work of Paul Ricoeur in ‘Time and Narrative’ (1984), this paper suggests a reading of Al-Jazeera’s narrative of the war in three times: the first mediated configurations, the media emplotment and the re-activation by the channel’s audience. While it situates the discourse of Al-Jazeera in relation to the Voice of the Arabs radio, which advocated in the 50ies for a nationalist, resistant and anti-colonial identity, this paper also explores the dual nature of Al-Jazeera between pan-Arabism and political Islam.
{"title":"From pan-Arab nationalism to political Islam: A Ricoeurian reading of Al Jazeera’s coverage of the ‘6th Arab-Israeli war’ in Lebanon","authors":"Dima Saber","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.81_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.81_1","url":null,"abstract":"Set within the wider framework of exploring the relationship between mediated representations of war and public understanding and perception of conflict in the Arab region, this paper focuses on Al-Jazeera coverage of the July war in Lebanon. From a broad theoretical viewpoint, it attempts to deconstruct the ‘ideological model of war’ (Carpentier, 2015) as depicted by Al-Jazeera, through its representation of the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. When Al-Jazeera framed it as the ‘6th war’, it added Israel’s attack on Lebanon to the series of five episodes of the Arab-Israeli conflict; this war follows the 1948 Palestine War, the Suez War in 1956, the June War of 1967, and the October 1973 War. Stemming from the work of Paul Ricoeur in ‘Time and Narrative’ (1984), this paper suggests a reading of Al-Jazeera’s narrative of the war in three times: the first mediated configurations, the media emplotment and the re-activation by the channel’s audience. While it situates the discourse of Al-Jazeera in relation to the Voice of the Arabs radio, which advocated in the 50ies for a nationalist, resistant and anti-colonial identity, this paper also explores the dual nature of Al-Jazeera between pan-Arabism and political Islam.","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"81-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80672406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article compares Al Jazeera Arabic’s and BBC Arabic’s news coverage of the 2011 Libyan uprising and the ensuing NATO intervention in the country. Through this comparative analysis, the article evaluates the impact of these two channels’ political contexts on their coverage, especially considering that these two channels are part of broader transnational news networks that are based in countries that were active participants in the NATO intervention in Libya. The sample involves a period of roughly four weeks of coverage, and considers aspects such as the birth of the February 17 movement in Libya, the development of the opposition, the beginning and end of the 2011 NATO mission and the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The sample was analysed by means of a framing analysis, whereby framing refers to the way a news story is packaged, and is an especially appropriate method when considering the influence of political power on coverage. The comparative analysis ultimately found that both channels’ coverage was primarily affected by their political contexts, and aligned with national and foreign policy interests of their home countries. This alignment was evident through the coverage that was supportive of the opposition and its advances, and the intervention and its gains. However, BBC Arabic’s coverage was more balanced, especially with regard to the progression of the opposition on the ground, as it did not play up opposition gains or gloss over opposition losses, as Al Jazeera Arabic tended to do. BBC Arabic also displayed a more analytical stance when covering the death of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The language used by Al Jazeera Arabic was also far more emotive and sensationalistic than that of BBC Arabic, which displayed a far more tempered stance when covering the Libyan uprising. Thus, this article also considers how each of these channels used the Arabic language when reporting, and how these stylistic differences might have affected their coverage.
{"title":"Framing the Libyan uprising: a comparison between Al Jazeera Arabic’s and BBC Arabic’s coverage of the 2011 uprising and ensuing NATO intervention","authors":"Sumaya Alnahed","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.119_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.119_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares Al Jazeera Arabic’s and BBC Arabic’s news coverage of the 2011 Libyan uprising and the ensuing NATO intervention in the country. Through this comparative analysis, the article evaluates the impact of these two channels’ political contexts on their coverage, especially considering that these two channels are part of broader transnational news networks that are based in countries that were active participants in the NATO intervention in Libya. The sample involves a period of roughly four weeks of coverage, and considers aspects such as the birth of the February 17 movement in Libya, the development of the opposition, the beginning and end of the 2011 NATO mission and the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The sample was analysed by means of a framing analysis, whereby framing refers to the way a news story is packaged, and is an especially appropriate method when considering the influence of political power on coverage. The comparative analysis ultimately found that both channels’ coverage was primarily affected by their political contexts, and aligned with national and foreign policy interests of their home countries. This alignment was evident through the coverage that was supportive of the opposition and its advances, and the intervention and its gains. However, BBC Arabic’s coverage was more balanced, especially with regard to the progression of the opposition on the ground, as it did not play up opposition gains or gloss over opposition losses, as Al Jazeera Arabic tended to do. BBC Arabic also displayed a more analytical stance when covering the death of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The language used by Al Jazeera Arabic was also far more emotive and sensationalistic than that of BBC Arabic, which displayed a far more tempered stance when covering the Libyan uprising. Thus, this article also considers how each of these channels used the Arabic language when reporting, and how these stylistic differences might have affected their coverage.","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"128 1","pages":"119-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88008211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exclusion in the Canadian context: Full-face veils as a barrier to citizenship","authors":"L. Mazurski","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.3_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.3_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"140 1","pages":"3-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77689348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The strategic use of news coverage of the 2009 ‘Green Movement’ in the US and Iranian newspapers as social drama","authors":"O. Venger","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.61_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.61_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"47 11 1","pages":"61-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79748882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining Muslims as the ‘Other’ in Muslim political films","authors":"Nadira Khatun","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.41_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.41_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"129 1","pages":"41-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74510270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Islamonausea, not Islamophobia’: The many faces of cyber hate speech","authors":"Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero, A. Azeez","doi":"10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.21_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAMMR.9.1.21_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research","volume":"73 1","pages":"21-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74607651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}