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[ecrea] Arab National Media and Political Change (new book)

Sun Oct 15 14:06:55 GMT 2017




I am pleased to share with you the information on the publication of my book ‘Arab National Media and Political Change’ with Palgrave Macmillan. The book presents main findings of the first and most extensive fieldwork with traditional Arab journalists post uprisings, depicting the intricate intersection between the journalistic practice and the political change brought by the uprisings and ensuing reforms.The book investigates an extremely important, yet understudied field, shedding light on the “voice” of the agents, the media actors and players, the producers of mediated messages in traditional national media post uprisings, in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. It uses mixed methods bringing together in-depth personal interviews with more than 300 journalists and media stakeholders, ethnographic field observation, texts analysis of regulations and cases studies from media monitoring.

Chapters discuss the following topics: media regulatory reforms, how journalists define professional journalism, the interplay between the media and political elites, the thorny process of reforming state owned media, journalists and social media activism, journalists and their role in consolidating the democratization processes or exacerbating their fragility.The book aspires to contribute to filling the gap of knowledge on traditional media and political change in a hybrid non western context.

Link to the book page in the publisher website: http://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9781137532152

A former journalist covering conflict zones for over 15 years, Fatima el-Issawi is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Essex and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. She has wide expertise in the media industry with a focus on Middle East and North Africa (MENA), crossing journalism, public communication, policy and academia.


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