Arab Digital Journalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19933367
AutoresNoha Mellor (0000-0003-3709-4808, University of Bedfordshire, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Fecha de publicación2022-11-16
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaArab Digital Journalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003218838
OpenAlexW4309121500
ISBN9781003218838
Open LibraryOL39275201M
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5

Responding to urgent calls to de-westernise Media and Journalism Studies and shed light on local agencies, this book examines digital journalistic practices in the Arab region, exploring how Arab journalists understand their roles and how digital technologies in Arab newsrooms are used to influence public opinion. Drawing on dozens of articles penned by Arab media professionals and scholars, supplemented with informal conversations with journalists, this book reviews the historical development of digital journalism in the region and individual journalists' perceptions of this development. While technology has provided a new platform for citizens and powerful agents to exchange views, this text examines how it has simultaneously allowed Arab states and authorities to conduct surveillance on journalists, curtail the rise of citizen journalism, and maintain offline hierarchal forms of political, economic, and cultural powers. Mellor also explores how digital technology serves to cement Western hegemony of the information world order, with Arab media organisations and audiences judged to be mere recipients, rather than producers, of such information. Arab Digital Journalism offers an important contribution to the emerging field of digital journalism in the Global South and is a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in media, journalism, communication, and development studies

Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Socioeconomic Development in MENA