Arab Public Opinion in the Age of Satellite Television: the Case of al-Jazeera

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Zayani
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Satellite Television

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.

Pensée 2: New Media and Old Agendas: The Internet in the Middle East and Middle Eastern Studies

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
WALTER ARMBRUST
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
New Media ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
The Third ◽  
Middle Eastern Studies ◽  
Middle East Studies

My thoughts on the Internet were recently jogged by an experience with a slightly older medium, namely, satellite television. In late March 2007 I attended the Third Annual Al-Jazeera Forum, in Doha. Notwithstanding the attendance of a few academics like me, the forum was largely a networking opportunity for professional journalists, just as MESA is for professional Middle East studies academics. However, unlike MESA, forum presenters, as well as the audience, were handpicked. Even the expenses of the attendees were subsidized (my hotel bill was paid by al-Jazeera). This inevitably made the event an exercise in open self-promotion for al-Jazeera.

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.

Words and War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney C. Radsch
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Transnational Media ◽  
New Public ◽  
Osama Bin Laden ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Coverage

This chapter explores globalization, resistance, and identity as forces shaping the relationship between Osama bin Laden and the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network. Both al Qaeda's and Al Jazeera's rise to global prominence were made possible by globalization and networked transnational media, namely the Internet and satellite television. Al Jazeera was often credited with building a new public sphere and pan-Arab identity while at the same time providing an Arab perspective on the series of U.S.-led incursions in the Middle East that became known as the War on Terror. Its rise happened to coincide with al Qaeda's rise and occurred amid extensive American forays into the Middle East, which were widely opposed in the region and thus led to highly critical coverage of a range of U.S. actions and policies toward the region and toward Muslims.

Review of Reader in Public Opinion and communication.

1966 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 316-316
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion
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