[ecrea] Call for papers: Special Issue on 'Al-Jazeera and Global Journalism'

*Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research *

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=148/

_The /Journal of Arab & Muslim Media/ /Research/ is an international
academic refereed journal published by Intellect in the UK, and
specialized in the study of Arab and Middle Eastern media and society._

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*_Call for Papers_*

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*Special Issue on: ‘Al-Jazeera and Global Journalism’.*

Al-Jazeera has grown within few years from a limited Arabic speaking
news channel launched in 1996 and broadcasting from the small state
Qatar to a global network encompassing in its outreach a cosmopolitan
audience and one of the major competitors to the western global media
networks. The channel has been hailed to provide an alternative news
discourse to the global western news networks; a challenging journalism
practice to the traditionally held views of objectivity and
impartiality. It has also affected the global news flow between the
North and the South.  In various parts of the world Al-Jazeera has been
credited for its daring journalism in covering the war in Afghanistan
(2001-02) invasion of Iraq (2003) and making governments accountable
before their citizens. In fact, one of the factors which have also
dramatically bolstered the Arab street’s loyalty (for instance) to
Al-Jazeera is its perseverance in covering political corruption in some
parts of the Arab world and its perceived genuine effort to give people
a voice. “The voice of the voiceless” is the motto which the channel
brands itself with regard to its unique reporting.  Without Al-Jazeera’s
news reporting of the Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan and Syrian revolutions
images of police brutality, torture and killing of opponents would have
probably never reached the international public opinion.

This special issue of the /Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research/
aims to make a contribution towards the growing scholarship on the
Al-Jazeera phenomenon. It seeks to critically address the above areas of
enquiry and welcomes contributions based on original empirical studies
regarding (and not necessarily limited to) the following themes:

-Cross-country comparative studies on Al-Jazeera’s audiences

-Comparative studies between Al-Jazeera’s news coverage and the coverage
of other international news networks.

-Al-Jazeera’s reporting of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

-Al-Jazeera and the Arab Spring revolutions

-The Arab street in Al-Jazeera’s coverage

-Al-Jazeera English VS Al-Jazeera Arabic

-Women in Al-Jazeera

-Use of new technologies in news reporting: Social media/drones etc.

-Al-Jazeera’s democratising role in the Arab region

-Objectivity and professionalism in Al-Jazeera’s news reporting

-Studies about Al-Jazeera’s genres

-Al-Jazeera’s impact on Arab broadcasting

-Al-Jazeera and diasporic audiences

-Recording history, the alternative discourse.

*_Submissions_*_:_

Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be submitted via
e-mail to Noureddine Miladi (Editor) on: (noureddine.miladi /at/ qu.edu.qa)
<mailto:(noureddine.miladi /at/ qu.edu.qa)>. Each manuscript should be between
7000 and 8500 words in main text and 200 words in abstract. All
submissions will be blind-refereed.

Please refer to the Contributor Guidelines for the Journal of Arab and
Muslim Media Research
(http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17519411) before you
formally submitting your paper.

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*_Deadlines for submission:_*

-Abstracts of about250 words and author’s bio (100 words) along the
author’s full contact details: by 30^th May 2015

-Full papers: by 25^th September 2015

-Referees’ feedback: by 10^th November 2015

-Expected publication of the special issue: March/April 2016 (Volume 9,
Issue 1)

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Dr Noureddine Miladi

*Associate Professor in Mass Communication*

*Department of Mass Communication*

*College of Arts and Science*

*Qatar University*

*PO Box: 2713*

*DOHA, QATAR*

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