Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to examine the similarities and differences between Arabic and English speakers in their language use in panel news interviews. Using discourse analysis, this study performed a descriptive, comparative, and analytical exam…
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Critical discourse analysis investigates the ways in which discourse is to abuse power relationships. Political debates constitute discourses that mirror certain aspects of ideologies. This study aimed to uncover the ideological intentions in the formulation and circulation of h…
More than sixteen years have passed since the launch of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel. Looking back, the state of Arab media and its relationship with the political sphere was different from what we see nowadays. The launch of Al Jazeera in 1996 was a significant event…
In recent years that involved the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Qatar-based satellite TV network Al-Jazeera became both an important source of news and a controversial actor signifying a challenge to U.S. foreign policy. This cross-national study compares journalist…
Many communication scholars are very conscious of the Western ethnocentric bias in the discipline (especially in journalism). They acknowledge that the role and the influence of the press is interpreted along the Western understanding that the press is very influential with the …
Al-Jazeera asserted itself in the global media scene shortly after the attacks of September 11th, 2001 in the United States. The station's regional prominence had already been entrenched in the new Arab media environment before it was overshadowed by the station's newfound globa…
News and information have always been critical factors in the conduct of international relations and the negotiation of political power in the international sphere. Yet, the increasingly ubiquitous nature of global telecommunications infrastructure and the ease and speed with wh…
Since its 1996 debut, Al-Jazeera has been a source of vexation to the traditionally autocratic governments in the Arab World. With its real-time, 24-hour cycle and uncensored nature of reporting and analyzing news, Al-Jazeera changed the Arab media's traditional role. It shifted…
This paper examines relationships between Arab media and several different institutions including government in general, democracy specifically, and Islam. The primary purpose of this research is to gain not only broad, but also in-depth understanding of Arab governments and the…
Initially praised as independent voices in a region known for authoritarian control, the pan-Arab satellite news networks have been criticized for airing content that is overtly violent, and sensational. Guided by framing theory and media categorization based in press theory and…
On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first American state to legalize same-sex marriage. In what was widely seen as a historic milestone in North America, the marriage equality debate was quickly thrust into the head beams of global media networks. Images of protestors, act…
The purpose of this study was to examine how Al Jazeera channels; Al Jazeera English channel and Al Jazeera Arabic Channel framed the war on Gaza from December 27, 2008 to January 18, 2009. A total of 220 news stories were analyzed, with 110 stories from each channel. The study …
This study is a content analysis of how CNN and Al-Jazeera framed ISIL in their online news coverage from June to October 2014. A total of 154 stories were analyzed in order to determine the differences in the news framing and sourcing of ISIL (also known as ISIS). The websites’…
This research examines the revolution of 2010 in Tunisia due to thepaucity of empirical research on the subject and to resolve analytical problems that plague research on similar events. The research is based in both the cultural turn in social movement research and the state co…
This study examines the portrayal of Al Jazeera in America media over the course of the decade since 9/11. By conducting an in-depth content analysis of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN Newsroom, NBC Nightly News, and Fox Special Report the study ide…
There is general consensus among U.S. scholars and policy makers that anti-Americanism in the Arab world is at its highest point to date. However, there is disagreement about the root causes of this sentiment. The claim has been made that, 'they [Arabs] hate our freedom' or, 'th…
The Doha-based, pan-Arab "al-Jazeera Satellite News Channel" came to life on November 1, 1996 by a Qatari Emiri decree, and began a 24-hour operation on February 1, 1998. Although sponsored by an autocratic government that is similar to other Arab regimes in terms of the wide ga…