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Arab Media, Corporate Media, and Public Relations: The Case of Al Jazeera
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)
Over the past few decades, public relations has developed significantly in the West into a sophisticated management function which is recognized as an integral part of any organization's attempt to communicate with various ...
Arab Satellite Television and Crisis Reporting: Covering the Fall of Baghdad
(Sage, 2006)
The question as to what dictates the choices of various media outlets and what guides the professional practices of journalists when reporting on international military crises is particularly pertinent when considering ...
Al Jazeera’s Palestine Papers: Middle East media politics in the post-WikiLeaks era
(Sage, 2013)
Shortly after WikiLeaks published thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables, Al Jazeera released hundreds of classified documents pertaining to the Palestinian–Israeli negotiations. Known as the ‘Palestine Papers’, ...
The Challenges and Limits of Universalist Concepts: Problematizing Public Opinion in a Mediated Arab Public Sphere
(Brill, 2008)
The author reflects on the participation of media in the Arab world's alteration to changes and the effect of the development in the ascendance of public opinion. He argues that the increasing distribution of television ...
Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World: Promises and Impediments
(Duke University Press, 2012)
The advent of civil society in the Arab world, the proliferation of nongovernmental advocacy organizations, and the expansion of civil society activism have been heralded as promising developments with significant implications ...
Courting and Containing the Arab Street: Arab Public Opinion, the Middle East and U.S. Public Diplomacy
(Pluto Journals, 2008)
This paper looks at the nature and dynamics of the so-called Arab street. It examines the forces shaping the Arab public opinion. Arguing that Arab public opinion is a real though subtle force to contend with, this paper ...
The Labyrinth of the Gaze: Nicholas of Cusa's Mysticism and Michel Foucault's Panopticism
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)
Panopticism, the title of Foucault's famous chapter in his book Discipline and Punish, derives fromJeremy Bentham's panopticon, an architectural plan to reform prisons at the end of the eighteenth century. The fundamental ...
Media, Branding and Controversy: Perceptions of Al Jazeera in Newspapers around the World
(Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators, 2008)
This paper examines the effect of the newly launched Al Jazeera English channel on the Al Jazeera brand. An analysis of a random sample of 400 newspaper articles—drawn from 7,830 articles mentioning the Al Jazeera brand ...
Media, Cultural Diversity and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities
(Tucker Publications, 2011)
This paper explores the role media play in safeguarding cultural diversity, promoting cultural dialogue, facilitating the exercise of cultural rights,fostering cultural understanding and cultivating intercultural citizenship ...
The Nietzschean Temptation: Gilles Deleuze and the Exuberance of Philosophy
(Penn State University Press, 1999)
Deleuze's book 'Neitzsche and Philosophy' and its criticism of and effect on Western philosophical thought is discussed. Topics include Deleuze's expansion of some of Neitzsche's ideas, what the book reveals about Deleuze, ...