Mohammad Ayish
Biographic Data
| ID | 4437963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad Ayish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayish |
| SIGNATURE | AYISH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yarmouk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1262-078X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Digital Double Bind
Review of: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East , Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil (2024) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 324 pp., ISBN 978-0-19750-862-6, h/bk, £64.00
Visual Storytelling in Arab Virtual Public Spheres
Across the Arab world, increasing digitization, spiking young demographics, expanding media education programs and rising cultural liberalism seem to be inducing greater visualization in the virtual sphere. This perception of the image as a key facet of online communications has been especially noted in the Arabian Gulf, where grand cultural and media projects embracing media cities, virtual museums, knowledge parks, online video platforms and fi…
Arab Millennials’ Articulation of Identity in Cyberspace
This study investigates how three young Arab influencers negotiate their identities in cyberspace. Abdallah Al Maghlouth, Abdulrahman Mohammed, and Laila Hzaineh were selected for this study because they were listed among the top MENA influencers by the Arab Social Media Summit (2015) or by Stepfeed.[1] The article draws on the cultural hybridity perspective to demonstrate how these influencers articulate cultural identity across three themes: hu…
Reporting in the Mena Region
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 …
Television Reality Shows in the Arab World
As much as Western-style reality television in the Middle East has gained extensive popularity among the region's audiences, it has also provoked serious ethical questions. In addressing this emerging genre, some television channels have evolved their own reality shows that emphasize local values and traditions. Based on a survey study and a focus group discussion involving University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) students who were exposed to…
Arab State Broadcasting Systems in Transition The Promise of the Public Service Broadcasting Model
In an Arab region entangled in global political, economic, social, and technological transformations, it seems natural to see traditionally paternalistic state broadcasting systems going through transitions. It has been noted that in Arab countries where social and political reforms are highly visible, radio and television services have been most cognizant of the need to adapt to surrounding change. Yet, in the long run, if government broadcaster…
Dynamics of Development in Arab Broadcasting
(Product of workshop no. 13 at the MRM 2008)
Understanding Arab women's role in media industries An empowerment-based perspective
This article aims to draw on the empowerment perspective as a key sociological concept to define our understanding of Arab women's transitions from the traditionally prescribed private sphere of the family to the emerging public sphere of the community. Female empowerment is viewed here as a multi-dimensional and multifaceted process of power re-distribution in society, and therefore its realization is conceived as a function of the interplay of …
Arab Satellite Television and Crisis Reporting
The question as to what dictates the choices of various media outlets and what guides the professional practices of journalists when reporting on international military crises is particularly pertinent when considering Arab media, who have been claiming a space in the global media scene by virtue of their intense and often controversial coverage of wars and crises in the postSeptember 11 era. This article is concerned with the coverage of the war…
Political Communication on Arab World Television
This article identifies political communication patterns taking shape on Arab world television. Three distinct patterns of political communication are described. In the traditional government-controlled television pattern, official government policies seem to inspire the form and substance of TV's framing of events and issues. In the reformist government-controlled television pattern, while official stands set the parameters of news coverage, pro…
Arab Television Goes Commercial
Taking the current debate on commercialism in broadcasting as a point of departure, this study sheds light on the promise of private television as a viable alternative to government-controlled broadcasting in the Arab world. It compares programme outputs carried by two satellite broadcasters belonging to two different models of television: the privately controlled commercial model represented by the London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre (M…
Direct satellite broadcasting in the Arab Gulf region
During the past decade, the six Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC) states, comprising of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain have taken long strides in the development of their mass media and national telecommunications infrastructures. One of the areas positively affected by this trend has been direct satellite broadcasting and reception. Not only have AGCC states made possible their populations' exposure t…
International communication in the 1990s
For thirty years now Third World nations have been central parties to the global debate on the vital issue of international communication. Supported by the former Soviet Union, they had called for a New World Information and Communication Order in which the negative effects of Western dominance of the international communication scene would be alleviated. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the reinvigoration of the United Nations, Muhammad …
Media coverage of the Gulf crisis
Risk Communication
Research into Western media coverage of the Third World tends to focus on its emphasis on `negative' events, especially natural disasters. Much attention is paid to the volume rather than the manner of the coverage. This article argues for a better understanding of media coverage based on the use of risk communication analysis, e.g. natural disasters should be conceived as forms of conflict rather than merely negative news. Taking the Sudan flood…
Foreign voices as people's choices; BBC popularity in the Arab World
of successful international cross-cultural communication.3 Although the BBC Arabic Service has been a subject of several scholarly investigations,4 the question of its wide popularity in the Arab World compared to other international broadcasters in Arabic has never been addressed. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive explanation of this BBC popularity and its implications for mass communication in the Arab World. The following s…
Media access in the Third World
Although access to channels of communication has been an important issue in national and international communication, it has rarely been addressed as such in an exclusively Third World context. Research about media in the Third World seems to perpetuate a mostly obsolete image regarding the current situations of communication systems in those countries. With respect to the question of access, the dominant notion governing our thinking of Third Wo…
The VOA Arabic Service
Political Communication on Arab World Television
This article identifies political communication patterns taking shape on Arab world television. Three distinct patterns of political communication are described. In the traditional government-controlled television pattern, official government policies seem to inspire the form and substance of TV's framing of events and issues. In the reformist government-controlled television pattern, while official stands set the parameters of news coverage, pro…
Arab Satellite Television and Crisis Reporting
The question as to what dictates the choices of various media outlets and what guides the professional practices of journalists when reporting on international military crises is particularly pertinent when considering Arab media, who have been claiming a space in the global media scene by virtue of their intense and often controversial coverage of wars and crises in the postSeptember 11 era. This article is concerned with the coverage of the war…
Arab Television Goes Commercial
Taking the current debate on commercialism in broadcasting as a point of departure, this study sheds light on the promise of private television as a viable alternative to government-controlled broadcasting in the Arab world. It compares programme outputs carried by two satellite broadcasters belonging to two different models of television: the privately controlled commercial model represented by the London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre (M…
International communication in the 1990s
For thirty years now Third World nations have been central parties to the global debate on the vital issue of international communication. Supported by the former Soviet Union, they had called for a New World Information and Communication Order in which the negative effects of Western dominance of the international communication scene would be alleviated. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the reinvigoration of the United Nations, Muhammad …
The VOA Arabic Service
Television Reality Shows in the Arab World
As much as Western-style reality television in the Middle East has gained extensive popularity among the region's audiences, it has also provoked serious ethical questions. In addressing this emerging genre, some television channels have evolved their own reality shows that emphasize local values and traditions. Based on a survey study and a focus group discussion involving University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) students who were exposed to…
Arab State Broadcasting Systems in Transition The Promise of the Public Service Broadcasting Model
In an Arab region entangled in global political, economic, social, and technological transformations, it seems natural to see traditionally paternalistic state broadcasting systems going through transitions. It has been noted that in Arab countries where social and political reforms are highly visible, radio and television services have been most cognizant of the need to adapt to surrounding change. Yet, in the long run, if government broadcaster…
Understanding Arab women's role in media industries An empowerment-based perspective
This article aims to draw on the empowerment perspective as a key sociological concept to define our understanding of Arab women's transitions from the traditionally prescribed private sphere of the family to the emerging public sphere of the community. Female empowerment is viewed here as a multi-dimensional and multifaceted process of power re-distribution in society, and therefore its realization is conceived as a function of the interplay of …
Direct satellite broadcasting in the Arab Gulf region
During the past decade, the six Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC) states, comprising of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain have taken long strides in the development of their mass media and national telecommunications infrastructures. One of the areas positively affected by this trend has been direct satellite broadcasting and reception. Not only have AGCC states made possible their populations' exposure t…
The VOA Arabic Service
Media access in the Third World
Although access to channels of communication has been an important issue in national and international communication, it has rarely been addressed as such in an exclusively Third World context. Research about media in the Third World seems to perpetuate a mostly obsolete image regarding the current situations of communication systems in those countries. With respect to the question of access, the dominant notion governing our thinking of Third Wo…
Risk Communication
Research into Western media coverage of the Third World tends to focus on its emphasis on `negative' events, especially natural disasters. Much attention is paid to the volume rather than the manner of the coverage. This article argues for a better understanding of media coverage based on the use of risk communication analysis, e.g. natural disasters should be conceived as forms of conflict rather than merely negative news. Taking the Sudan flood…
Foreign voices as people's choices; BBC popularity in the Arab World
of successful international cross-cultural communication.3 Although the BBC Arabic Service has been a subject of several scholarly investigations,4 the question of its wide popularity in the Arab World compared to other international broadcasters in Arabic has never been addressed. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive explanation of this BBC popularity and its implications for mass communication in the Arab World. The following s…
International communication in the 1990s
For thirty years now Third World nations have been central parties to the global debate on the vital issue of international communication. Supported by the former Soviet Union, they had called for a New World Information and Communication Order in which the negative effects of Western dominance of the international communication scene would be alleviated. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the reinvigoration of the United Nations, Muhammad …
Media coverage of the Gulf crisis
Direct satellite broadcasting in the Arab Gulf region
During the past decade, the six Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC) states, comprising of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain have taken long strides in the development of their mass media and national telecommunications infrastructures. One of the areas positively affected by this trend has been direct satellite broadcasting and reception. Not only have AGCC states made possible their populations' exposure t…
Arab Television Goes Commercial
Taking the current debate on commercialism in broadcasting as a point of departure, this study sheds light on the promise of private television as a viable alternative to government-controlled broadcasting in the Arab world. It compares programme outputs carried by two satellite broadcasters belonging to two different models of television: the privately controlled commercial model represented by the London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre (M…
Political Communication on Arab World Television
This article identifies political communication patterns taking shape on Arab world television. Three distinct patterns of political communication are described. In the traditional government-controlled television pattern, official government policies seem to inspire the form and substance of TV's framing of events and issues. In the reformist government-controlled television pattern, while official stands set the parameters of news coverage, pro…
Arab Satellite Television and Crisis Reporting
The question as to what dictates the choices of various media outlets and what guides the professional practices of journalists when reporting on international military crises is particularly pertinent when considering Arab media, who have been claiming a space in the global media scene by virtue of their intense and often controversial coverage of wars and crises in the postSeptember 11 era. This article is concerned with the coverage of the war…
Arab State Broadcasting Systems in Transition The Promise of the Public Service Broadcasting Model
In an Arab region entangled in global political, economic, social, and technological transformations, it seems natural to see traditionally paternalistic state broadcasting systems going through transitions. It has been noted that in Arab countries where social and political reforms are highly visible, radio and television services have been most cognizant of the need to adapt to surrounding change. Yet, in the long run, if government broadcaster…
Dynamics of Development in Arab Broadcasting
(Product of workshop no. 13 at the MRM 2008)
Understanding Arab women's role in media industries An empowerment-based perspective
This article aims to draw on the empowerment perspective as a key sociological concept to define our understanding of Arab women's transitions from the traditionally prescribed private sphere of the family to the emerging public sphere of the community. Female empowerment is viewed here as a multi-dimensional and multifaceted process of power re-distribution in society, and therefore its realization is conceived as a function of the interplay of …
Television Reality Shows in the Arab World
As much as Western-style reality television in the Middle East has gained extensive popularity among the region's audiences, it has also provoked serious ethical questions. In addressing this emerging genre, some television channels have evolved their own reality shows that emphasize local values and traditions. Based on a survey study and a focus group discussion involving University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) students who were exposed to…
Reporting in the Mena Region
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 …
Arab Millennials’ Articulation of Identity in Cyberspace
This study investigates how three young Arab influencers negotiate their identities in cyberspace. Abdallah Al Maghlouth, Abdulrahman Mohammed, and Laila Hzaineh were selected for this study because they were listed among the top MENA influencers by the Arab Social Media Summit (2015) or by Stepfeed.[1] The article draws on the cultural hybridity perspective to demonstrate how these influencers articulate cultural identity across three themes: hu…
Visual Storytelling in Arab Virtual Public Spheres
Across the Arab world, increasing digitization, spiking young demographics, expanding media education programs and rising cultural liberalism seem to be inducing greater visualization in the virtual sphere. This perception of the image as a key facet of online communications has been especially noted in the Arabian Gulf, where grand cultural and media projects embracing media cities, virtual museums, knowledge parks, online video platforms and fi…
The Digital Double Bind
Review of: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East , Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil (2024) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 324 pp., ISBN 978-0-19750-862-6, h/bk, £64.00
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)