scholarly journals The Emergence of Transnational Media Network in the Arab World: The Case of Al-Jazeera

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-226
Author(s):  
Hyungkwon Jeon ◽  
메흐리니소
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Transnational Media

scholarly journals Watching the war against Iraq through pan-Arab satellite TV

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed El-Bendary
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
The West ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
The North ◽  
Satellite Channels ◽  
Flow Of Information

It was the first Gulf War in 1991 which led to the satellite television explosion in the Arab world. Arabs then knew about Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait through CNN. Today, Arab satellite channels reach almost every Arab capital and many Middle Eastern and African nations — from Mauritania on the Atlantic coast to Iran in the east, from Syria in the north to Djibouti in the south. This battle for the airwaves and boom in satellite channels in the Arab world has become both a tool for integration and dispersion. It is raising a glimpse of hope that the flow of information will no longer be pouring from the West to the East, but from the East to the West. Questions, however, remain about the credibility of news coverage by Arabic networks like the maverick Qatar-based al-Jazeera and whether Arab journalists adhere to journalistic norms upheld in the West.

Al Jazeera: Is it a voice for the voiceless?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haydar Badawi Sadig ◽  
Catalina Petcu
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Voice

Al Jazeera’s motto, ‘The opinion and the other opinion’, is the natural starting point for a review of its mission to widen the boundaries of public conversation in the Arab world and the world at large. All responsible mass media have a similar motto or goal: to represent and discover the many voices that comprise one’s community, to provide a place and context for the expression of opinion, and to lead in the granting of mutual respect. The world-regarded Social Responsibility Theory of the press holds this goal as its core. Any conversation about media mission and vision includes the metaphor: voice of the voiceless. What range of voices does Al Jazeera broadcast as duty, privilege, for purposes of peace? What voices would Al Jazeera never cover, and why? How does Al Jazeera keep itself accountable to the ‘mission of voice’ as it negotiates the challenging political, religious and developmental ecology of the Middle East? Finally, what can Al Jazeera teach other media companies and constituencies as it continues to grow and articulate its own mission? The importance of the voice is pertinent in the argument that recovering voice challenges the dominant neoliberal politics opposed to Al Jazeera’s contra flow.

scholarly journals A Pragmatic Analysis of Islam-related Terminologies in Selected Eastern and Western

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zein Bani Younes ◽  
Isyaku Hassan ◽  
Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Arab World ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Western Media

The mass media are blamed for constructing a negative image of Islam through the use of Islam-related terms in reporting terrorism. It is presumed that when Islam-related terms are used without regard to their original connotations, they are likely to lose their original meanings and begin to take on altered meanings created by the media. Therefore, this study aims to explore the use of Islam-related terminologies in selected eastern and western mass media outlets in relation to their semantic and linguistic interpretations. The study employed a qualitative approach in which content analysis was used. Using purposive sampling, The Jordan Times and Al-Jazeera were chosen from the eastern Arab world while The BBC and The Guardian were chosen from the western media. total of 368 news articles focusing on Islam and Muslims were collected from the selected news media outlets using internet-based search from March 2018 until October 2019. The findings showed significant differences (P = 0.000/P < 0.05) exist between the selected eastern and western mass media outlets in using Islam-related terminologies. The terms are used more frequently in the western media outlets than in the eastern media outlets. Further analysis of the findings revealed that the selected media outlets use Islam-related terminologies, such as “Islamist” and “Jihadist”, in negative contexts. The use of Islam-related terminologies in the selected media outlets could be influential in making the audience to perceive Islam as a religion of terrorism. The negative use of Islam-related terms could be minimized through training of journalists on news coverage of religion, provision of proper guidelines on religious reporting and ensuring that these guidelines are strictly followed. It was envisaged that this study would be useful to the media outlets, particularly in the process of news gathering, production, and dissemination.

Debating Arabic on Al-Jazeera: Endangerment and Identity in Divergent Discourses

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camelia Suleiman ◽  
Camelia Suleiman ◽  
Russell E. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
The West ◽  
General Direction ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Television Network ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Eight debates on Al-Jazeera specifically, on the Arabic language, highlight the divergent and convergent discourses about the status of the language and its use today in the Arab world. All address the issue of the weakness of the Arabic language, both internally between formal and dialect, and externally in the face of globalizing English. The participants also link the Arabic language to issues of identity and who the Arabs ‘are’ during this era of globalization. The article outlines the intellectual roots that many of the participants draw upon—that of the Arab nahda of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Finally, the article points out that there is a divergence between the general direction of scholarship produced in the West on the Arabic language and about the Al-Jazeera network and the broader intersection of language and nationalism addressed by the Al-Jazeera participants. Beyond noting the obvious linkage between language and nationalism, how actual participants deal with their intellectual legacies while attempting to prescribe and influence the present deserves greater analysis in the case of the Arabic language and its most noted vehicle today—the Al-Jazeera satellite television network.

Pop Goes the Arab World: Popular Music, Gender, Politics, and Transnationalism in the Arab World

Hawwa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-254
Author(s):  
Julia Choucair ◽  
Maya Mikdashi ◽  
Jehan Agha ◽  
Shereen Abdel-Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Arab World ◽  
State Control ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Transnational Media ◽  
Arab Politics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Static Nature

AbstractAssumptions are often made as to the static nature of contemporary Arab politics and societies. Authors, scholars and commentators look for sociopolitical dynamism in the arenas they are used to: newspapers, television and parliament/congress, to name but a few. When they do not see or hear these debates taking place in the formal institutions that they are familiar with, they are quick to assume that these reassessments are simply not occurring. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Arab world is debating itself on matters of politics, identity and gender roles, to name but a few subjects. The debate space that is being utilized, however, is easily unnoticeable to those who are not adept at finding these forums and are instead used to being presented with them. When public space is limited, any opening will be used to the utmost. The ways in which the Arab world imagines and recreates itself is often through art. Satellite television and the strengthening of transnational media has helped the populations of this widely defined nation come into contact with each other in a realm outside of state control. Artists can become peoples' most important and trusted politicians. A medium readily accessible for consumption and easy to understand, popular music addresses important themes that speak to a collective audience and tie it together as a community. This paper seeks to examine the political, identity and gender debates that are currently occurring within the realm of popular music.

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