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

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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