Arab Media & Society http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/ 2012-02-06T05:19:15+00:00 http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/_images/structure/bg.sidelogo.gif http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/ Arab Media & Society Dr Mark Allen Peterson contrasts the Egyptian mediascape in 2011 with its Iranian counterpart in 1979 and concludes that, unlike Iran, Egypt is unlikely to revert to a pre-revolutionary status quo which included state domination of the media. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=770 2011-05-31T00:00:00+01:00 Dr Ramy Aly argues that Egypt's revolutionary moment is a golden opportunity to abandon old media practices that deprived many sectors of society of a media voice and privileged a narrow and elitist concept of what it means to be Egyptian. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=771 2011-05-31T00:00:00+01:00 El Mustapha Lahlali takes a close look at the rhetorical devices by which both Ben Ali and Mubarak tried to retain power when they addressed their nations at critical junctures during the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=772 2011-05-31T00:00:00+01:00 Alice Hlidkova reports on the state of the media in Iraqi Kurdistan, where the reality does not always live up to the ideals promulgated by those who run the autonomous region. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=775 2011-05-31T00:00:00+01:00 Courtney C. Radsch discusses the interplay between the economic benefits of good communications, the willingness of Arab regimes to close down the Internet and mobile phone networks when they think their survival is at stake, and the role of multinational companies in the region. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=778 2011-05-31T00:00:00+01:00 Michael Oghia and Helen Indelicato research Internet ownership in key Arab countries, noting the differences in the extent of state control and in the levels of private and foreign investment in the infrastructure. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=779 2011-05-31T00:00:00+01:00 William Youmans analyzes the debate in Burlington, Vermont, over whether the local cable TV company should or should not carry Al Jazeera English. He concludes that Burlington was a special case, rather than the harbinger of a breakthrough into the US market for AJE. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=780 2011-05-31T00:00:00+01:00 Dr Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn give a comprehensive overview of the role of new media in the overthrow of Mubarak and wonders whether the same tools will enable activists to keep up the pressure for change during what could a lengthy transitional period. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=769 2011-05-29T00:00:00+01:00 Al Jazeera English is campaigning for greater access to the US market, building on positive publicity about its coverage of the Egyptian revolution. But research by William Youmans and Katie Brown suggests that substantial prejudice against AJE persists among segments of the American public, even after they are exposed to its coverage. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=768 2011-03-16T00:00:00+00:00 Heba Elsayed argues that young members of Cairo's lower middle classes, because of their ability to negotiate for themselves a heterogeneous cosmopolitanism dependent upon local repertoires yet also drawing on global discourses, are more deserving of the cosmopolitan label than their upper-class counterparts. http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/?article=760 2010-12-11T00:00:00+00:00