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[Commlist] New Issue- (14.2)- Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research
Thu Dec 30 22:39:17 GMT 2021
Noureddine Miladi is pleased to announce the publication of _Issue 14.2_
of the /Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research/ /(JAMMR)/. 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 JAMMR’s homepage.
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research
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*_JAMMR: 14.2-_*
Volume (14): Issue (2); December 2021.
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*Kurdish women and TV journalism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Experiences and
strategies*
Authors: Marco Nilsson <https://www.intellectbooks.com/marco-nilsson>,
Leah Esmaiel <https://www.intellectbooks.com/leah-esmaiel>
DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00036_1
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*Abstract*
Few studies on female TV journalists in the Middle East have been
conducted. Neither have Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts been used to
analyse women journalists’ experiences of their professional practice
and their strategies for navigating a male-dominated media world in the
Middle East. For this unique study, tenKurdish women journalists that
work for six different TV stations in Iraqi Kurdistan were interviewed.
Informed by different forms of capital, the thematic analysis revealed
four themes that capture the respondents’ experiences and strategies:
coping with perceptions of pretty dolls and honorary men; coping with
the threat of violence and a bad reputation; coping with the gendered
distribution of news assignments; tackling glass ceilings and unwritten
rules. A particularly interesting result of the study was that while the
strategies range from proclaiming any news hard news to openly defying
orders from the managers and to claiming that one’s ability to advance
depends on having a strong personality, the focus is consistently on
individualistic survival strategies. When masculinity and male norms
still dominate the contents of symbolic capital, it may result in
seemingly counterproductive practices such as the lack of a distinct
‘we’ feeling among women journalists. For women journalists, the cost of
transforming their cultural and social capital into symbolic capital
that is effective in the journalistic field is affected by both the
journalistic field and the society at large, which creates contextually
bound obstacles to women journalistsin Iraqi Kurdistan.
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*Broadcasting and national identity construction in Qatar: The case of
Al-Rayyan TV*
Authors: Noureddine Miladi
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/noureddine-miladi>, Moez Ben Messaoud
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/moez-ben-messaoud>, Jamel Zran
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/jamel-zran>
DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00035_1
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*Abstract: *
This research sought to study the contents of Al-Rayyan TV programmes
and their relationship to the construction of national identity in
Qatar, a task this channel has taken as an editorial line since its
inception in 2012. In this article, we present findings of an
audience-based exploration of Al-Rayyan TV’s viewership. Fieldwork data
was gathered via a base of 720 survey questionnaires from a sample of
Qatari society as well as fifteen interviews conducted with experts and
social media activists. The aim was to find out respondents’ views about
the role of the channel in promoting Qatari identity and
culture.Research questionnaires were managed at intervals between August
and November 2020. Fieldwork results showed that the surveyed viewers
believe that the channel plays a significant role in preserving Qatari
national culture and heritage. However, when it comes to rating Qatari
TV channels in order of importance, respondents’ favourite TV
broadcaster in terms of news and current affairs programmes was Al
Jazeera, followed by beIN Sports, Qatar TV, Al-Rayyan TV and finally Al
Kass. Research findings also reveal an evident trend among young Qataris
and professionals who find in social media networks the most convenient
platforms to view and share content from Al-Rayyan TV. People watch
video clips from most popular programmes, such as /Al-Sabah Rabah/, /Umm
Rashid/, /Taraheeb/ and /In the Shadows of Doha/, among others, which
they receive via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. However, concerns
via-à-vis Al-Rayyan TV’s repetitive content and a programme schedule
that does not include much entertainment content cannot be missed from
viewers’ responses. The dwindling popularity of the channel among Qatari
youth is perceived as one such result of its inability to transform
itself in the age of digital explosion.
*Egyptian imaginaries of resistance: Cinematic remembrance of the Suez
crisis*
Author: Ehab Galal <https://www.intellectbooks.com/ehab-galal>
DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00033_1
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*Abstract*
Current politics in Egypt has revived the idea of a strong connection
between the army, the Egyptian people and its leaders. This imaginary
was introduced by Egyptian cinema about the time of the 1952 revolution.
In the early days of national independence, the Suez crisis 1956 in
particular holds the symbols and images needed to create the set of
semantics supporting this imaginary. Based on theories on national and
postcolonial imaginaries, I analyse two Egyptian films on the Suez
crisis: /Port Said/ from 1957 and /ʿMaliqat al-Bihar/ (/Giants of the
Sea/) from 1960 ncluding shorter references to other films from the
period. By examining the postcolonial semantics of these films, I
identify three elements that together retell the Egyptian nation. First,
the Suez crisis is pictured as eliminating the colonial enemies due to
the actions of strong leaders. Second, a pan-Arab alliance is installed.
Third, enemies from within are disconnected from the true Egyptian
assessed by loyalty to the nation. The result is a strong imaginary of
the correlation between the army, people and in particular its leaders.
*Living with difference: Ontological security and identification of
second-generation members of the Nigerian diaspora in Peckham, ‘Little
Lagos’, London*
Author: O. B. Alakija <https://www.intellectbooks.com/o-b-alakija>
DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00031_1
*Abstract*
This article presents the impact of digital technologies and small media
on the second-generation members of the Nigerian diaspora in Peckham
(London, United Kingdom). Situated within the larger context of global
trends, cultural production and commodification that have become central
to contemporary identity articulation, the article argues that cultural
production and consumption have become the site of creativity in
negotiating multiple attachments for this second-generation offspring of
the initial migrants in such a way that living with ‘difference’ has
become a part of everyday diasporic experiences. The article shows how
second-generation Nigerians in Peckham perform their diasporic
identities around the popularity and the inclusion of Afrobeatsmusic,
Nollywood films and the representation of ankara clothing styles in the
host society and in the global mainstream. It reveals the dialectic
interaction between local cultures and global media by showing how
digital technologies not only make it possible to connect across space
and time but also aid the production of new identities. In contrast to
the fear of the older migrants over their perception of non-involvement
of young Nigerians in belonging to their homeland,a sense of patriotic
pride is demonstrated by their offspring. Insights are drawn from
seven-month ethnography of the Nigerian diaspora in Peckham, London. The
findings suggest that the inclusion of local artefacts from Nigeria in
the host society provides a sense of national pride for the born abroad
children in their country of heritage.
*Netflix speaks Arabic, Arabs speak Netflix: How SVOD is transforming
Arabic series screenwriting* Authors: Fadi G. Haddad
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/fadi-g-haddad>, Alexander Dhoest
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/alexander-dhoest>
DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00034_1****
*Abstract*
While subscription of video-on-demand (SVOD) services has become
increasingly popular across the world in recent years, the arrival of
Netflix to the Arab world was transformational. As it stepped up to
produce original Arabic series, Netflix-modelled services from the
region proliferated, promising to challenge the existing Arabic series’
(/musalsalat/) routines in content and form. Since the Arab World is
scarcely mentioned in the growing scholarly literature on SVODs, this
article attempts to understand how the Arabic TV drama industry is
recalibrating to this new transnational co-production context,
particularly when it comes to developing series ideas and screenplays.
Our aim is to analyse the creative interplay in which these ideas and
screenplays are evaluated and developed. To this effect, we draw on
original interviews with screenwriters, development producers and
creative executives who have worked with Netflix on original Arabic
series, as well as those who have worked with Shahid VIP, a Saudi-owned
pan-Arab SVOD platform. Informed by the ‘Screen Idea System’ framework
that suggests a understanding of the dynamics between the shaping
elements of any new idea made for the screen, we explore whether the
current business model results in certain cultural narratives and how
this affects the perceptions of quality and success of the produced
series. Our findings show that transnationalism is instigated by the
writers’ perception of a transnational target audience, and is reflected
strongly on the levels of production and creative decision-making.
Moreover, the systems in which the series of both platforms are
developed are in constant negotiations with the /musalsalat/
conventions, while aiming to prompt novelty based on a Western
perception of the idea of quality.
*Digital communication and Ramadan at the time of COVID-19*
Author: Dario Fanara <https://www.intellectbooks.com/dario-fanara>
DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00032_1 **
*Abstract*
COVID-19 has presented both a health and an information risk with the
viral spread of sometimes partial, false or erroneous news. In the Arab
region, the media spheres have been saturated with information regarding
Coronavirus news. From social and traditional media, Arab audiences have
been bombarded with a plethora of information, some of which was
confusing and contradictory. As Coronavirus sweeps across the world,
many questions have been raised about the possibility of practicing the
rites of the month of Ramadan and to observe fasting by Muslims. With
the multiplication of the responses from medical staff, doctors of the
law and political representatives, COVID-19 has simultaneously become a
health, religious, political and ethical problem for the Muslim
world.The premise elaborated so far calls for an in-depth research on
the return of news on the official Facebook pages of three online
magazines during the Coronavirus emergency. The research carries out a
qualitative media content analysis of all the news published by three
digital ethnic newspapers: The Muslim News (United Kingdom), the Saphir
News (France) and the Daily Muslim (Italy).The magazines have undertaken
to stem the spread of fake news by offering users data and updates on
COVID-19 proposing themselves as authoritative voices and reliable
sources of information.Ramadan turns out to be a very central element in
the three magazines in different measures, since it is an issue that
becomes more and more urgent for the Muslim community as the weeks go
by. The centrality of the religious element in the information flows is
in line with the centrality of Islam in the individual and community
life of the faithful. The health and religious emergency were narrated
together providing updates on the daily measures to be put in place.
Individuals have been called to face the health emergency stimulated by
their sense of responsibility towards the others also through religious
principles. Social media have played an important role from religious,
cultural and social points of view in one of the most important moments
of the year for the Islamic community.
*Arab online news platforms: Innovating language, narratives, audiences
and business models. Experiences from Lebanon and Jordan*
Author: Rut Gomez Sobrino <https://www.intellectbooks.com/rut-gomez-sobrino>
DOI: 10.1386/jammr_00037_1
*Abstract: *
This article analyses the rising relevance of online news platforms in
the Arab region, particularly those created after the social uprisings
that commenced in late 2010 in Tunisia and spread across the southern
Mediterranean basin. As the online environment does not contemplate
borders, the article refers to the term ‘Arab’, as these initiatives
aimed at reaching regional audiences. However, the cases addressed in
this article are based only in two countries, Jordan and Lebanon. The
research focuses on four specific media start-ups: Raseef22 and Daraj in
Lebanon, and 7iber and Sowt in Jordan. The selection of these news
platforms integrated in the research exercise was not a simple task as
many initiatives of this type were born in the last years such as /Al
Jumhuriya/, /MadaMasr/ and Inkyfada just to mention a few. The author
has decided to follow objective aspects such as audience rates, business
consolidation, external support from partners and the ability to reach
new publics, particularly young readers, which were not traditionally
engaged in conventional media. The methodology to develop the present
article has been based on structured interviews with the editors and/or
founders of the analysed news platforms together with an analysis of the
content that they produce. Research results demonstrate that despite the
challenges and the difficulties to become economically sustainable, as
well as the continuous political pressures suffered, these initiatives
have been able to build unique narratives of unprecedented nature and
innovative business models based on international agreements with global
organizations. Therefore, they are becoming transformative drivers of
jjournalism and critical thinking across the region, something that was
unimaginable just few years ago.
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*Noureddine Miladi (PhD)*
Professor of Media & Communication
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Noureddine_Miladi/contributions
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Noureddine_Miladi/contributions>
*_Editor:_**/JAMMR (refereed journal in Arab media and society)/*
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ProQuest Summon and ProQuest upload, Communication & Mass Media
Complete, Britannica Online Collection, Communication Source
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