Reporting in the MENA Region: Cyber Engagement and Pan-Arab Social Media

Couverture
Rowman & Littlefield, 22 oct. 2015 - 188 pages
In this consideration of media practice in the Arab region, Mohammad Ayish and Noha Mellor explore the changing status and function of journalists and journalism given the new realities of reporting in the digital age.

The authors draw on focus group discussions, interviews, and social media traffic surveys to examine how social and new media have been integrated into Arab and pan-Arab newsroom operations and harnessed to enhance engagement with an empowered audience. Efforts to engage with audiences in social space, Ayish and Mellor argue, are part of a broad and long-waged information war aimed at winning hearts and minds in the MENA region. Social platforms present excellent opportunities to engage with audiences, but the extent to which such opportunities can be realized are hamstrung by limits on free expression and online access—and vary significantly from country to country and from media channel to media channel. Overall, Reporting in the MENA Region paints a comprehensive and contemporary picture of how today’s Arab journalists perceive and use digital media.
 

Table des matières

Introduction
1
Ch01 Arab Journalism
9
Ch02 Information and Communications Transitions in the MENA Region
31
Ch03 Digital Transitions
51
Ch04 Social Media Traffic Trends
67
Ch05 How Journalists Use Social Media
85
Ch06 Audience Engagement
103
Ch07 Social Media in Newsrooms
121
Ch08 Citizen Journalists versus Traditional Gatekeepers
139
Conclusions
157
References
167
Index
179
Droits d'auteur

Expressions et termes fréquents

Al-Arabiya Al-Hayat Al-Hayat newspaper Al-Youm Alhurra Arab journalism Arab journalists Arab media Arab region Arab Social Arab Spring Arab world Asharq Al-Awsat audience engagement Bahrain BBC Arabic blogs broadcast citizen journalism CNN Arabic communication countries crowdsourcing cultural Dubai Egypt Egyptian Facebook account Facebook and Twitter Facebook posts Faisal Al-Kasim followers France 24 Gaza global interactive Internet interview Iraq issues Jordan Klout score Kuwait launched Lebanon LinkedIn media traffic MENA region Middle East mobile Mohamed Muslim Muslim Brotherhood networks newspaper newsrooms Nour Eddine Palestinian pan-Arab journalists pan-Arab media pan-Arab media organizations pan-Arab media outlets percent political professional radio role satellite television Saudi Arabia sector shares Sky News Arabia social media platforms social media sites social media unit social space stories Syria talk show telecommunications tion top post topics tweets Twitter accounts uprisings users YouTube

À propos de l'auteur (2015)

Mohammad Ayish is professor of communication at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He served as Dean of the College of Communication at the University of Sharjah from 2002-2008. He has over 60 published articles and book chapters on Arab satellite television, media and democratization, development communication, Arab-Islamic communication perspectives. His most recently published books include Arab Media (co-author, 2011) and The New Arab Public Sphere (2008). Noha Mellor is professor of media at Bedfordshire University, UK. She’s the author of several volumes about Arab media, including The Making of Arab News (2005), Modern Arab Journalism (2007), Arab Journalists in Transnational Media (2011) and Arab Media (co-author, 2011).

Informations bibliographiques

TitreReporting in the MENA Region: Cyber Engagement and Pan-Arab Social Media
AuteursMohammad Ayish, Noha Mellor
ÉditeurRowman & Littlefield, 2015
ISBN1442237635, 9781442237636
Longueur188 pages
  
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