Mohammed Ibahrine
Biographic Data
| ID | 322939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammed Ibahrine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammed |
| FAMILY NAME | Ibahrine |
| SIGNATURE | IBAHRINE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2782-3029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the Black Box
This study examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is integrated into Arabic-language fact-checking ecosystems through semi-structured interviews with 12 practitioners and comparative case analysis of four organizations: Sanad, Fatabyyano, Sawab, and Misbar. Drawing on practitioner-reported routines and organizational practices, we analyze how AI supports verification under dialectal variation, geopolitical sensitivity, and uneven digital liter…
Networked Islam and liquid authority
The rise of digital Islam has opened organic spaces in which Muslims learn, debate, and live their faith online, reshaping how religious influence and credibility emerge. While professional influencers often dominate digital religious spaces, everyday influencers, lacking formal religious authority yet embedded in close peer networks, play a crucial role in shaping religious practice. Drawing on 40 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews conducted be…
Shifting Power Dynamics
This study utilizes the concept of “media capture” as a theoretical framework to explore the political and economic control exerted over the media landscape in Morocco. It expands the analysis to include emerging forms of media capture, particularly with the rise of digital platforms and the influence of global tech giants like Google and Meta. These new dimensions of capture transcend traditional notions of media control based solely on economic…
Strategic branding models in Arab media
This study explores the transformative landscape of Arab media branding strategies, focusing on the interplay between technology, diverse ownership models, and strategic innovation. Using Kapferer’s Brand Identity Prism framework, this research examines the branding strategies of 11 prominent Arab media organizations. Findings show that successful Arab media brands combine cultural relevance, visual identity, and advanced digital technologies to …
Understanding user sensemaking in fairness and transparency in algorithms
The News Ecosystem in the Age of AI
While there is a growing body of literature on the use of algorithms in journalistic principles and professional practices in general, there is a gap in the literature regarding the adoption of AI, algorithms, and automation in the journalistic field in the United Arab Emirates. This paper explores the journalistic field by providing empirical perspectives on algorithmic adoption and its relationship between journalistic values and algorithmic in…
Zombies for their profit
This forum is dedicated to exploring the notion of meaningfulness in design processes, taking the perspectives of community groups, nongovernmental organizations, and those who are marginalized in society as starting points. Authors will reflect conceptually and methodologically on practical engagements. --- Rosanna Bellini and Angelika Strohmayer, Editors
Heroes in Harm’s Way
This paper examines COVID-19 narratives of China as a form of soft power. The coronavirus pandemic and its handling have presented an image problem for China on the global stage. The country has struggled to control the narratives surrounding the pandemic. This article is interdisciplinary in nature with a focus on contemporary Chinese history, culture, and politics, as well as communication issues and narratives. It analyses non-fictional and fi…
The impact of the platformization of Arab news websites on quality journalism
As elsewhere in the world, Arab news websites depend on revenue streams built on the commercialization of social media platforms. Reliance on these platforms has created a major structural shift in news production, distribution and monetization, which has triggered serious concerns about fake news, misinformation and quality journalism. This paper investigates the extent to which four online-only news websites abide by quality journalism in the c…
Digital Islam and Muslim Millennials
Digital platforms have empowered individuals and communities to re-negotiate long-established notions of religion and authority. A new generation of social media influencers has recently emerged in the Muslim world. They are western-educated, unique storytellers, and savvy in digital media production. This raises new questions on the future of Islam in the context of emerging challenges, such as the openness of technology and the often-perceived …
Gendered self-representation and empowerment on social media in the United Arab Emirates
Social networking sites (SNSs) provide a set of affordances that allow young adults to represent various aspects of their gendered identities and construct their identity-related experiences. This paper adopts Goffman’s concepts in relation to social media and his dramaturgical theories of the self as a framework for the study of online self-presentation. The paper uses the Explanatory Sequential Mixed Method Design. The study conducted a quantit…
Containing a Corona Misinfodemic and Covidiocy
Misinformation surrounding the pandemic has spread rapidly in this age of digital virality. We argue that the factual and science-based discussion of the “corona crisis” on Anne Will and Maybrit Illner, two political talk shows on German public-service television, has contributed to containing both a potential misinfodemic and the virus itself. We use thematic analysis to interpret the data from ten shows in March at the height of the coronavirus…
Watching the Watchdogs
Professional and academic debates on the role of media accountability instruments (MAIs) have so far largely focused on Western democracies and on solving the issues of transparency and trust through press and media councils, ombudspersons, media criticism fora, and digital forms of media accountability. They have notably ignored the disruptive force of media technologies in the context of the rise of algorithm-driven platforms. This paper draws …
The Emergence of a News Website Ecosystem
This paper examines the emergence of a news ecosystem, focusing on Hespress, Morocco’s first, largest, and most popular news website and its current economic success. My analysis investigates Hespress’s emergence and growth into a significant source for news content, reaching an unprecedented number of readers in Morocco and abroad. This paper argues that the success of Hespress’s business model is grounded in a particularly well-developed unders…
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco (originally published in January 2004)
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco by Mohammed Ibahrine This article analyses the dynamics and transformations of Moroccan telecommunications within the context of globalisation and technological advancement in the late 1990s. The Moroccan government developed an electronic strategy, known as the E–Morocco, to bring the country into an information–based society. This article examines recent innovative policies on issues of …
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco (originally published in September 2003)
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco by Mohammed Ibahrine This article analyses the dynamics and transformations of Moroccan telecommunications within the context of globalisation and technological advancement in the late 1990s. The Moroccan government developed an electronic strategy, known as the E–Morocco, to bring the country into an information–based society. This article examines recent innovative policies on issues of …
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco by Mohammed Ibahrine This article analyses the dynamics and transformations of Moroccan telecommunications within the context of globalisation and technological advancement in the late 1990s. The Moroccan government developed an electronic strategy, known as the E–Morocco, to bring the country into an information–based society. This article examines recent innovative policies on issues of …
Digital Islam and Muslim Millennials
Digital platforms have empowered individuals and communities to re-negotiate long-established notions of religion and authority. A new generation of social media influencers has recently emerged in the Muslim world. They are western-educated, unique storytellers, and savvy in digital media production. This raises new questions on the future of Islam in the context of emerging challenges, such as the openness of technology and the often-perceived …
Watching the Watchdogs
Professional and academic debates on the role of media accountability instruments (MAIs) have so far largely focused on Western democracies and on solving the issues of transparency and trust through press and media councils, ombudspersons, media criticism fora, and digital forms of media accountability. They have notably ignored the disruptive force of media technologies in the context of the rise of algorithm-driven platforms. This paper draws …
The impact of the platformization of Arab news websites on quality journalism
As elsewhere in the world, Arab news websites depend on revenue streams built on the commercialization of social media platforms. Reliance on these platforms has created a major structural shift in news production, distribution and monetization, which has triggered serious concerns about fake news, misinformation and quality journalism. This paper investigates the extent to which four online-only news websites abide by quality journalism in the c…
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco by Mohammed Ibahrine This article analyses the dynamics and transformations of Moroccan telecommunications within the context of globalisation and technological advancement in the late 1990s. The Moroccan government developed an electronic strategy, known as the E–Morocco, to bring the country into an information–based society. This article examines recent innovative policies on issues of …
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco (originally published in January 2004)
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco by Mohammed Ibahrine This article analyses the dynamics and transformations of Moroccan telecommunications within the context of globalisation and technological advancement in the late 1990s. The Moroccan government developed an electronic strategy, known as the E–Morocco, to bring the country into an information–based society. This article examines recent innovative policies on issues of …
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco (originally published in September 2003)
Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco by Mohammed Ibahrine This article analyses the dynamics and transformations of Moroccan telecommunications within the context of globalisation and technological advancement in the late 1990s. The Moroccan government developed an electronic strategy, known as the E–Morocco, to bring the country into an information–based society. This article examines recent innovative policies on issues of …
The Emergence of a News Website Ecosystem
This paper examines the emergence of a news ecosystem, focusing on Hespress, Morocco’s first, largest, and most popular news website and its current economic success. My analysis investigates Hespress’s emergence and growth into a significant source for news content, reaching an unprecedented number of readers in Morocco and abroad. This paper argues that the success of Hespress’s business model is grounded in a particularly well-developed unders…
Gendered self-representation and empowerment on social media in the United Arab Emirates
Social networking sites (SNSs) provide a set of affordances that allow young adults to represent various aspects of their gendered identities and construct their identity-related experiences. This paper adopts Goffman’s concepts in relation to social media and his dramaturgical theories of the self as a framework for the study of online self-presentation. The paper uses the Explanatory Sequential Mixed Method Design. The study conducted a quantit…
Containing a Corona Misinfodemic and Covidiocy
Misinformation surrounding the pandemic has spread rapidly in this age of digital virality. We argue that the factual and science-based discussion of the “corona crisis” on Anne Will and Maybrit Illner, two political talk shows on German public-service television, has contributed to containing both a potential misinfodemic and the virus itself. We use thematic analysis to interpret the data from ten shows in March at the height of the coronavirus…
Watching the Watchdogs
Professional and academic debates on the role of media accountability instruments (MAIs) have so far largely focused on Western democracies and on solving the issues of transparency and trust through press and media councils, ombudspersons, media criticism fora, and digital forms of media accountability. They have notably ignored the disruptive force of media technologies in the context of the rise of algorithm-driven platforms. This paper draws …
Zombies for their profit
This forum is dedicated to exploring the notion of meaningfulness in design processes, taking the perspectives of community groups, nongovernmental organizations, and those who are marginalized in society as starting points. Authors will reflect conceptually and methodologically on practical engagements. --- Rosanna Bellini and Angelika Strohmayer, Editors
Heroes in Harm’s Way
This paper examines COVID-19 narratives of China as a form of soft power. The coronavirus pandemic and its handling have presented an image problem for China on the global stage. The country has struggled to control the narratives surrounding the pandemic. This article is interdisciplinary in nature with a focus on contemporary Chinese history, culture, and politics, as well as communication issues and narratives. It analyses non-fictional and fi…
The impact of the platformization of Arab news websites on quality journalism
As elsewhere in the world, Arab news websites depend on revenue streams built on the commercialization of social media platforms. Reliance on these platforms has created a major structural shift in news production, distribution and monetization, which has triggered serious concerns about fake news, misinformation and quality journalism. This paper investigates the extent to which four online-only news websites abide by quality journalism in the c…
Digital Islam and Muslim Millennials
Digital platforms have empowered individuals and communities to re-negotiate long-established notions of religion and authority. A new generation of social media influencers has recently emerged in the Muslim world. They are western-educated, unique storytellers, and savvy in digital media production. This raises new questions on the future of Islam in the context of emerging challenges, such as the openness of technology and the often-perceived …
The News Ecosystem in the Age of AI
While there is a growing body of literature on the use of algorithms in journalistic principles and professional practices in general, there is a gap in the literature regarding the adoption of AI, algorithms, and automation in the journalistic field in the United Arab Emirates. This paper explores the journalistic field by providing empirical perspectives on algorithmic adoption and its relationship between journalistic values and algorithmic in…
Understanding user sensemaking in fairness and transparency in algorithms
Shifting Power Dynamics
This study utilizes the concept of “media capture” as a theoretical framework to explore the political and economic control exerted over the media landscape in Morocco. It expands the analysis to include emerging forms of media capture, particularly with the rise of digital platforms and the influence of global tech giants like Google and Meta. These new dimensions of capture transcend traditional notions of media control based solely on economic…
Strategic branding models in Arab media
This study explores the transformative landscape of Arab media branding strategies, focusing on the interplay between technology, diverse ownership models, and strategic innovation. Using Kapferer’s Brand Identity Prism framework, this research examines the branding strategies of 11 prominent Arab media organizations. Findings show that successful Arab media brands combine cultural relevance, visual identity, and advanced digital technologies to …
Beyond the Black Box
This study examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is integrated into Arabic-language fact-checking ecosystems through semi-structured interviews with 12 practitioners and comparative case analysis of four organizations: Sanad, Fatabyyano, Sawab, and Misbar. Drawing on practitioner-reported routines and organizational practices, we analyze how AI supports verification under dialectal variation, geopolitical sensitivity, and uneven digital liter…
Networked Islam and liquid authority
The rise of digital Islam has opened organic spaces in which Muslims learn, debate, and live their faith online, reshaping how religious influence and credibility emerge. While professional influencers often dominate digital religious spaces, everyday influencers, lacking formal religious authority yet embedded in close peer networks, play a crucial role in shaping religious practice. Drawing on 40 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews conducted be…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works)