[Commlist] New Journal Issue JAMMR 13.2 (Media and Society in the Middle East)

Noureddine Miladi is pleased to announce the publication of _Issue 13.2_ 
of the /Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research/ (JAMMR), which has an 
interesting line up of timely papers. The journal is an international 
refereed academic platform, published by Intellect in the UK. You may 
access the papers of this issue as well as other issues from the JAMMR’s 
homepage.

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research>

We trust you will find this publication a valuable resource for research 
about media, communication and society in the Arab World and the Middle 
East.

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*_JAMMR: 13.1-_*

Volume (13): Issue (2); October 2020.

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*Media events and translation: The case of the Arab Spring*

Authors: Christian Morgner 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/christian-morgner>, Haitham Aldreabi 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/haitham-aldreabi>

DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00016_1

Abstract:

This article contributes to the growing research on transnational and 
global media events by focusing on the role of translation in the 
process of mediated meaning-making of the so-called Arab Spring. 
Furthermore, the article focuses on the role of traditional media 
channels (television), and questions conflation of the Arab Spring and 
the Arab world. Therefore, a database was created of the English 
television coverage on Egypt’s and Syria’s uprisings done by ‘Russia 
Today’ and ‘Al Jazeera’. The coverage was analysed using narrative and 
discourse analysis focusing on the role of media reports translation. 
This analysis included different translations and also considered the 
impact of these translations on the overall framing of the media event. 
It demonstrated how translation positioned the narrative structure of 
media events and their internal dynamic; how these dynamics were 
reconfigured through recontextualization; how participants were 
repositioned; and how the competition impacted the further dynamics of 
the media event.

*Patriotism and Islam on social media: How Pakistani publics revisit 
their allegiance to the state*

Authors: Munira Cheema <https://www.intellectbooks.com/munira-cheema>

DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00017_1

Abstract:

This study focuses on a series of events related to the sudden 
disappearance of bloggers in Pakistan on 7 January 2017. Following the 
incident, the broadcast media reported that the bloggers were sharing 
blasphemous content and were involved in anti-state activities. This 
revelation triggered online conversations that questioned their 
sympathizers’ patriotism and loyalty to Islam. The study locates how 
this led to the emergence of several hashtag-led publics on Twitter. 
While focusing two hashtags that polarized the publics on the issue, the 
study utilizes discourse analysis to evaluate the discourses generated 
by the conservative and the liberal publics on patriotism and national 
identity. This study finds that while conflating national identity with 
Islam, the conservative discourse constitutes angry, threat-like closed 
statements that allowed no room for disagreement. Liberal publics, on 
the other hand, use strategic speaking to create anti-state discourse on 
patriotism. Despite the heated exchange between the two publics, I argue 
that on this occasion (event-led), Twitter offered the opportunity for 
initiating counter-narratives that refuse to translate patriotism in the 
idiom of religion. I see this as an occasional, episodic, yet 
unprecedented form of public sphering in Pakistani context that brings 
both liberals and conservatives in direct contact with each other.

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*Applying McLuhan’s tetradic framework to the effects of 9/11 on US 
media reports and depictions of Muslims*

Authors: Jonathan Matusitz 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/jonathan-matusitz>

DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00018_1

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This article applies McLuhan’s tetradic framework to the impact of 9/11 
on US media reports and portrayals of Muslims. The tetradic framework 
posits that transformations in media and world life happen through four 
fundamental steps. All forms of media (1) intensify specific aspects of 
media culture while, simultaneously, (2) making other characteristics of 
media culture obsolete. At some point, people tend to (3) discover new 
things about aspects in media culture that were ignored in the past 
(i.e. which obsolete aspects of culture do media retrieve?). Finally, 
(4) with this rise in information-seeking and discovery, media culture 
is experiencing continuous modification. Stated differently, the media 
go through a reversal when pushed too far or extended beyond the limits 
of their capacity. Overall, this analysis is able to inform readers on 
the full complexity of the long-term development of people’s perceptions 
of Muslims as a result of the constant metamorphosis of the media.

*Covering ISIS in the British media: Exploring agenda-setting in The 
Guardian newspaper*

Authors: Taner Dogan <https://www.intellectbooks.com/taner-dogan>, Sare 
Selvi Ozturk Dogan <https://www.intellectbooks.com/sare-selvi-ozturk-dogan>

DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00019_1

Abstract:

Self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) hit the news headlines across the 
globe in the post-Arab Uprisings period. Its main aim was to replace the 
‘colonialist borders’ of the Middle East created with the Sykes–Picot 
agreement in 1916. One of the atrocities of this terror network was 
against a minority in Iraq, the Yazidis. Whereas other victims of ISIS, 
such as Alawites, Druze, Ismailis and Turkmen, have not been covered 
thoroughly in the British and US media, Yazidis – in particular Yazidi 
women – dominated the titles. Notwithstanding, the framing of the 
Yazidis has been influential in the engagement of the Obama 
administration against ISIS’ move in the Levant; the Kurdish minority is 
still under threat today because of their ethnic and religious identity. 
This article discusses how agenda-setting effects the news media’s power 
to shape individual attitudes and public opinion. The Guardian’s 
agenda-setting is discussed in this article as a credible, ‘most 
liberal’ and ‘most trusted’ news brand in the United Kingdom. A content 
analysis of news articles regarding the plight of Yazidi population in 
Iraq and its continuous coverage mostly focusing on Yazidi women was 
conducted, with the articles published at the time when the crisis broke 
out. The authors of this article apply the notions of an ‘East–West’ 
divide and ‘Othering’ to frame ISIS’ move in Mount Sinjar, Iraq. The 
study emphasizes that The Guardian not only set the agenda by 
prioritizing the circumstances of the Yazidi population, but also 
deployed frameworks of ‘orientalist’ depictions of Yazidi women as 
slaves of ISIS.

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*Framing terrorism: A comparative content analysis of ISIS news on RT 
Arabic and Sky News Arabia websites*

Authors: Daleen Al Ibrahim 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/daleen-al-ibrahim>, Yibin Shi 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/yibin-shi>

DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00020_1

Abstract:

This study compares RT Arabic and Sky News Arabia websites in their 
coverage of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria violent organization 
known as ISIS from 1 June 2014 until 30 June 2016, in terms of framing 
type and the image reflected about ISIS. The quantitative content 
analysis of the news articles shows similarities and few differences in 
the news coverage of ISIS. The study suggests that RT and Sky News share 
a few features in framing ISIS but still differ significantly. The two 
websites adopt mainly the conflict frame in presenting ISIS issues; 
however, they report ISIS differently when it comes to violence and 
human interest frames. The findings also reveal that RT and Sky News 
differ partially in the image reflected about ISIS on their websites. RT 
has exaggerated ISIS’s image more distinctly than Sky News. Besides, 
even though threat is the most dominant discourse about ISIS in the two 
websites, RT promotes ISIS as powerful and exaggerates its strength in 
its coverage more than Sky News.

*Authenticity and discourses in Aladdin (1992)*

Authors: Abderrahmene Bourenane 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/abderrahmene-bourenane>

DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00021_1

Abstract:

Since the first encounters between the East and the West, many Western 
artistic productions have been produced to introduce the Orient to the 
Occident. Antoine Galland’s translation of the oriental folkloric tales, 
known as One Thousand and One Nights marked a cultural transfer through 
introducing an exotic, colourful and adventurous, yet unsafe, 
life-threatening and mysterious image of the Orient. Scholars question 
the authenticity of the translation, and reject the true belonging of 
the tale of Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp to the oriental cultural heritage 
suggesting its Western construction. This fabrication suggests the 
existence of several discourses that are to be unfolded with the 
critical discourse analysis of the pictorial and textual discourse of 
the tale and its several filmic adaptations. The tale was fully or 
partially adapted in several cinematographic productions during the last 
century. For example, while Aladin (1906) faithfully adapted part of the 
original tale, the 1992 version directed by Clements and Musker is a 
loosely inspiration perceived through an orientalist filter. The aim of 
this article is to investigate the authenticity and disclose the 
discourses concealed in Galland’s translation and its 1992 filmic 
adaptation, the critical discourse analysis in addition to Edward Saïd’s 
Orientalism provide the theoretical framework to analyse the excerpts 
from the translation and scenes from the film, in order to disclose the 
colonial, orientalist and feminist discourses they encapsulate.


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