Jadaliyya is hereby launching its new Media page! This page provides a critical lens from which to explore and analyze the media landscape in and about the Middle East and North Africa. It spotlights new and traditional media players, platforms, and reporting at the local, regional, and global levels. Original articles featured in this page expand the disciplinary boundaries of media studies and communication to look at the intersections of the arts and all forms of representation. The page also features audio interviews and extensive video segments on various topics pertaining to the Middle East. Also forthcoming from the page is a weekly radio show "Media on the Margins" led by VOMENA's award-winning host and Jadaliyya co-editor Malihe Razazan.
Our first bouquet of articles include a stellar report from Basma Guthrie and Fida Adely titled "Is the Sky Falling? Press and Internet Censorship Rises in Jordan," a critical intervention from VJ Um Amel on the methodologies of social media analysis "Studying Social Streams: Cultural Analytics in Arabic," a telling case study by Donatella Della Ratta about regime and opposition discourses in Syria titled "Syrian Hands Raised: User-Generated Creativity Between Citizenship and Dissent," Adel Iskandar's an assessment of Egypt's military performance in "Year of the Ostrich: SCAF's Media Experiment," and an interview and preview of Linda Herrera's recently published "Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt" from Jadaliyya's NEWTON page. It also includes the latest media roundup on Syria (November 1).
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For a look at our previously published original media-related works, visit the popular articles below:
Saeeds of Revolution: Demythologizing Khaled Saeed by Amro Ali
Al-Jazeera's (E)evolution? by Vivian Salama
E-Militias of the Muslim Brotherhood: How to Upload Ideology on Facebook by Linda Herrera and Mark Lotfy
Pioneer Bloggers in the Gulf Arab States by Sultan Al-Qassemi
Marketing Agency, Branding Hope: War, Kony, and "Three Cups of Tea" by Sarah Lazare and John Wesley Jones
Adorning Afghan Walls by Nagmani
Free at last: Charting Egypt's Media Post-Mubarak by Adel Iskandar
Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: Critique of an Emerging Phenomenon by Amro Ali and Dina El-Sharnouby
Egypt's Presidential Elections and Twitter Talk by VJ Um Amel
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Also visit Jadaliyya's Multi-Media Interviews
The Future of Media in Egypt: An Interview with Hesham Kassim
Currency Crisis in Iran, Copts in Egypt: Interviews with Hamid Zangeneh, Mohammad Moeini, and Paul Sedra
Mediating Bahrain---Hotsopt, Bloodspot or Blindspot: Interview with Alaa Shehabi
"We are All Palestinian Prisoners:" Interview with Hafez Omar
The Role of Workers and Labor Unions in the Egyptian Revolution: Interview with Hossam El-Hamalawy
And for the Latest Roundups from the Media:
Latest on Syria (1 November)
Latest on the Arabian Peninsula (31 October)
Latest on Egypt (29 October)
Happy reading, listening, and watching!
Jadaliyya's Media Page Editors