Jamil
Biographic Data
| ID | 58753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamil |
| FAMILY NAME | Jamil |
| SIGNATURE | JAMIL |
| AFFILIATIONS | Khalifa University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0524-7355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
AI-driven transformation in ethnic news media: Journalists’ understandings and challenges in multicultural Pakistan, Russia and South Africa
In many countries of the world, ethnic news media is undergoing technological transformation, resulting in the ways news is produced and disseminated. Therefore, the state of ethnic news media is much different today, with increased accessibility of news and audience engagement. The AI-driven technological developments have given rise to new conceptual frameworks and research agendas, underlining the need to explore AI-generated news and its far-…
Negotiated Empowerment and Split Performance: Female Representation in Chinese Video Games
This study investigates a central paradox in contemporary Chinese video games: the coexistence of narratively empowered female characters and their simultaneous visual objectification. While existing scholarship explains why this tension exists, particularly in female-oriented games, less attention has been paid to how this negotiation manifests at the micro-level. Through qualitative content analysis of dialogue, plot structures, and visual desi…
The future of virtual production: Education, innovation, and industry
The global screen and performance industries are experiencing a significant shift with the increasing adoption of Virtual Production (VP) technologies. VP is frequently promoted as enabling greater creative control, logistical flexibility, and possible environmental efficiencies. At the same time, however, critics have highlighted a range of substantial challenges associated with its uptake. These include the technical complexity of VP systems, t…
Developing an industrial workflow for virtual production filmmaking
Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, recent discourse has positioned VP as a radical approach capable of reimagining conventional filmmaking workflows through real-time technologies. However, such accounts often privilege high-profile case studies and promotional narratives, obscuring the practical constraints and realities, organisational demands, and workflow implications that shape VP filmmaking. This article examines VP through a workflow-ce…
Social media and gendered disinformation: The double-edged sword for women journalists
Social media have long been acknowledged as a platform of representation for diverse sections of society including the marginalized groups and communities. Peculiarly, it offers a space to women to
The dire need of ecological sustainability in Pakistan: The agenda setting role of news media to address environmental problems
Pakistan is struggling from a major challenge stemming from the twin problems of declining economy and environmental degradation. There is sufficient evidence to suggest that the country is failing in its battle to protect its environment. Considering its wider reach and influence, the need for news media’s strategies to set a public agenda for fostering ecological sustainability is felt than ever before in Pakistan. Therefore, drawing on the age…
Sustainable Journalism: Reflections from the Global South
Becoming Tech-savvy: Egyptian Journalists’ Perceptions Towards the Acceptance of Automated Journalism
Reporting on Science in the Southern African Context: Exploring Influences on Journalistic Practice
This exploratory study investigates the journalistic influences on science reporting in Southern Africa, filling the gap that is under explored. South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe are the selected cases. Methodologically, this qualitative study relied on in-depth face-to-face interviews and purposive sampling as designs. The study employed Reese's and Shoemaker's hierarchy of influences model as the preferred theoretical framework because it …
Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Transforming knowledge through practice: Improving Chinese students' understanding of theoretical and conceptual approaches in documentary studies
The article seeks to understand how the application of theoretical approaches in documentary filmmaking improves students’ conceptual and analytical skills. Through the delivery of a theoretically orientated documentary module, the motivation of the study emerges from the authors’ own observations that the integration of practice can support students to better conceptualise theoretical approaches. Notably, the module is delivered at a Sino-Britis…
Mediatisation, the Ambivalent Preservation of Cultural Tradition, and the Appeal of Luxurious Death in Toraja, Indonesia: Social Media Depictions of Rambu Solo in a Digital Age
The Covid-19 Pandemic and E-Learning: The Digital Divide and Educational Crises in Pakistan's Universities
Recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have significantly impacted some critical sectors of societies (such as transport, health, business, and communication) across many developed and developing countries. Nevertheless, the Internet has proliferated unequally across the world, resulting in global digital inequalities. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the deployment of online education to prevent the interrupti…
Covid-19 pandemic and science reporting in Pakistan
While the COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to working journalists overall, South Asian countries are compounded by scientific illiteracy, language and cultural barriers, and a scarcity of trained science journalists. These constraints can impinge science journalism in the region along with other contextual factors. This study sheds light on science journalism in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Informed by the hierarchy of influences …
The growing norm of sexual harassment in Pakistan’s mainstream and ethnic news media
Across time, in a variety of forms and spaces -from homes and workplaces to digital domains of social media- women have become victims of sexual harassment. Over the last couple of years, the world has witnessed appalling cases followed under the #MeToo campaign that has inspired an increasing number of women to share their experiences of sexual harassment in different contexts. Nevertheless, social and family pressures may discourage female jour…
Environmental journalism education beyond the conventional pedagogical approaches: Exploring the scope of experiential learning to train Pakistan’s journalism students
Environmental issues are steadily increasing across the world. News media plays a significant role in highlighting environmental problems and facilitating the public debate to foster a healthy environment. The South Asian news media do report on environmental challenges. However, the major focus of news media’s coverage remains politics, economy, regional and international security issues. In the case of Pakistan, the second largest South Asian c…
The Impact of China’s Biopolitical Approach to Covid-19 on Pets
Using the frameworks of biopower and uses and gratification theory, this article examines the treatment of pets in China during the COVID-19 outbreak and the role of social media in fulfilling users’ social needs by facilitating discussions on associated animal welfare issues and mobilizing animal advocates to take action. The analysis focuses on how social media comments on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, have influenced public discour…
Syncing with Science: The Challenge of Knowledge-based Journalism to Report on Science in Pakistan
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the public interest in science, and thus the need to report on scientific facts and information correctly has increased. While the pandemic has posed challenges to working journalists across the globe, problems for Pakistani journalists continue to grow. The country’s journalists struggle not only to report on the pandemic but also to report on other scientific matters ranging from environmental issues to techn…
The changing ethnic news media landscapes: Implications of technological convergence in multicultural Pakistan and Russia
Media representation of ethnic minorities and communities is important in multicultural societies that reflect ethnic cultural diversity. Therefore, the role of ethnic news media becomes crucial to give voices to marginalized communities, especially in the digital age when their cultural practices, issues and concerns can reach faster beyond the national territories. With technological advancements, ethnic news media practices are also transformi…
Disinformation and Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Online Journalism in China
pero creada y distribuida con una intención maliciosa. A pesar de sus posibles efectos negativos, la IA está transformando el panorama mediático junto con otras tecnologías. Este artículo explora la relación entre la IA y la desinformación en el contexto del periodismo en línea chino. La ciberesfera china se puede explicar a través de definiciones opuestas. Por ejemplo, China es un país donde los medios de comunicación masiva, especialmente los m…
Contending with Sexual Harassment: A Study of Southern African Female Journalists’ Experiences
This paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on sexual harassment of female journalists from the Global South more broadly and Southern Africa in particular. We selected three Southern African countries for this investigation: Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Namibia. Much of sub-Saharan Africa still experiences patriarchy that has proven to be resilient with misogynistic residue. Theoretically, the study utilizes the new institutionalism …
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East
This article provides a commentary on the special issue of “Digital Journalism” on “10 years after the Arab Uprising”. It highlights the role of social media in facilitating the Arab Spring Movements that erupted in 2010s. The commentary recognizes the evolving political dynamics of the Middle East and the rise of digital authoritarianism in the region. It portrays both the dark and bright sides of social media a decade later of Arab uprising, hi…
Building a Media Literate Society: Pathways to Improve Media and Information Literacy Education in Pakistan
This mixed-method study investigates the state of media and information literacy education in Pakistan by underlining the availability of relevant courses and trained teaching and research faculty at both public and private universities. Using United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) framework, this study explores the perception of faculty members across six key areas of general education and teacher development…
Digital Transformation in Journalism: Implications of Media Convergence for Journalists’ Work in Pakistan’s Mainstream News Media
Media Discourses and Representation of Marginalized Communities in Multicultural Societies
Increasing Accountability Using Data Journalism: Challenges for the Pakistani Journalists
A distinct era of data-driven reporting is on rise – a period when software, algorithms, programming, and data-processing techniques are being used by media organizations, especially in many developed countries of the world. Amid the increased practice of data journalism, it is imperative to analyse how journalists can use it for holding the power holders accountable, particularly in authoritarian and competitive authoritarian regimes where democ…
Artificial Intelligence and Journalistic Practice: The Crossroads of Obstacles and Opportunities for the Pakistani Journalists
In the past two decades, technological advancement has reshaped the news media landscape in many developed and developing countries of the world. Journalistic practice, especially in large-scale economies, is experiencing transformations due to the introduction of automatic artificial intelligence processes into different aspects of news production and dissemination. Now devices and machines are taking on the role of communicator, replacing journ…
Suffering in Silence: The Resilience of Pakistan’s Female Journalists to Combat Sexual Harassment, Threats and Discrimination
Pakistan’s journalists confront severe safety risks across the country and impunity to crimes against them allows the perpetrators to go unpunished. Now the country is recognized as one of the deadliest places for working journalists in the world. Given this situation, the Pakistani female journalists are more vulnerable because they are not only prone to safety risks and sexual harassment, but also they face gender discrimination when it comes t…
Ethnic news media in the digital age: The impact of technological convergence in reshaping journalists’ practices in Pakistan
Drawing on the theory of technological convergence, this study primarily investigates how technological convergence is reshaping the journalists’ practices of news production and distribution in Pakistan’s ethnic news media. This study also comparatively analyses challenges and constraints experienced by the Pakistani journalists from mainstream and ethnic news media to use digital technology (i.e. the use of computers, multimedia, the internet, …
The Monitored Watchdogs: Journalists’ Surveillance and its Repercussions for their Professional and Personal Lives in Pakistan
Journalists, across the world, are ever more at risk of surveillance from state and non-state antagonists. However, to work safely in a monitored environment is a substantial challenge for journalists. In such regimes, journalists and media organizations are often prone to attacks by the state authorities. Surveillance, no matter real or implied, the presence of state panopticon power is felt strongly by the journalists, especially in competitive…
Journalism in the era of mobile technology: The changing pattern of news production and the thriving culture of fake news in Pakistan and Ghana
The advent of new technologies has resulted in the rise of mobile journalism around the globe. Mobile devices have reformed the newsroom environments by introducing new means to connect with the audience and to communicate with other journalists within the same place. Many traditional media organizations already produce news content for mobile web-sites and apps in proportion to cross-media strategies, reflecting structural changes in the journal…
Automated Journalism and the Freedom of Media: Understanding Legal and Ethical Implications in Competitive Authoritarian Regime
Today news organizations of many developed countries, being part of the digital world, are heralding new ways of news production through automated journalism and embracing new sort of technology-related challenges. The relationship between journalists and automation can vary significantly in different socio-cultural contexts, suggesting considering how automated journalism impacts media freedom through diverse legal and ethical problems. While th…
Syncing with Science: The Challenge of Knowledge-based Journalism to Report on Science in Pakistan
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the public interest in science, and thus the need to report on scientific facts and information correctly has increased. While the pandemic has posed challenges to working journalists across the globe, problems for Pakistani journalists continue to grow. The country’s journalists struggle not only to report on the pandemic but also to report on other scientific matters ranging from environmental issues to techn…
Ethnic Journalism in the Global South
Contending with Sexual Harassment: A Study of Southern African Female Journalists’ Experiences
This paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on sexual harassment of female journalists from the Global South more broadly and Southern Africa in particular. We selected three Southern African countries for this investigation: Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Namibia. Much of sub-Saharan Africa still experiences patriarchy that has proven to be resilient with misogynistic residue. Theoretically, the study utilizes the new institutionalism …
Evolving Newsrooms and the Second Level of Digital Divide: Implications for Journalistic Practice in Pakistan
News media industry is indeed no exception to witness the transforming impacts of the growing penetration of the Internet and digitalization, especially in the developed economies of the global North. However, research regarding the influence of the Internet and digitalization on evolving newsrooms and journalistic practice in the global South is limited. Particularly, the case of Pakistan is unique in the global South because the country ranks a…
Discriminated in Society and Marginalized in Media: Social Representation of Christian Sanitary Workers in Pakistan
Sanitary workers are globally marginalized both in media and society. Such discrimination is often amplified when such essential workers belong to a religious minority in Muslim majority societies such as Pakistan. Drawing from the frameworks of social representation and social identity theories, this study uses the qualitative method of in-depth interviews with 30 Christian sanitary workers to shed light on the perception of representation of Ch…
Mediatisation, the Ambivalent Preservation of Cultural Tradition, and the Appeal of Luxurious Death in Toraja, Indonesia: Social Media Depictions of Rambu Solo in a Digital Age
The changing ethnic news media landscapes: Implications of technological convergence in multicultural Pakistan and Russia
Media representation of ethnic minorities and communities is important in multicultural societies that reflect ethnic cultural diversity. Therefore, the role of ethnic news media becomes crucial to give voices to marginalized communities, especially in the digital age when their cultural practices, issues and concerns can reach faster beyond the national territories. With technological advancements, ethnic news media practices are also transformi…
Safety Threats, Impunity and Professionalism: Journalists' Dilemma in Pakistan
This study primarily aims to examine the impact of contextual factors on journalists' safety in Pakistan. The study also analyses the ways safety risks and Pakistan's climate of impunity affect professional journalism in the country. Data have been gathered using the quantitative method of survey and the qualitative method of in-depth interviews. Findings reveal that all surveyed male and female journalists (100%) view the factors of government's…
Safety Threats, Impunity and Professionalism: Journalists' Dilemma in Pakistan
This study primarily aims to examine the impact of contextual factors on journalists' safety in Pakistan. The study also analyses the ways safety risks and Pakistan's climate of impunity affect professional journalism in the country. Data have been gathered using the quantitative method of survey and the qualitative method of in-depth interviews. Findings reveal that all surveyed male and female journalists (100%) view the factors of government's…
Increasing Accountability Using Data Journalism: Challenges for the Pakistani Journalists
A distinct era of data-driven reporting is on rise – a period when software, algorithms, programming, and data-processing techniques are being used by media organizations, especially in many developed countries of the world. Amid the increased practice of data journalism, it is imperative to analyse how journalists can use it for holding the power holders accountable, particularly in authoritarian and competitive authoritarian regimes where democ…
Journalism in the era of mobile technology: The changing pattern of news production and the thriving culture of fake news in Pakistan and Ghana
The advent of new technologies has resulted in the rise of mobile journalism around the globe. Mobile devices have reformed the newsroom environments by introducing new means to connect with the audience and to communicate with other journalists within the same place. Many traditional media organizations already produce news content for mobile web-sites and apps in proportion to cross-media strategies, reflecting structural changes in the journal…
Battling with infodemic and disinfodemic: The quandary of journalists to report on Covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan
The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors of life. Despite economic downturn, one major impact of global pandemic is the rise of 'infodemic' and 'disinfodemic', which actually creates challenge for the public to access reliable information when they require it. News media plays a crucial role in such stressful situations by providing timely and accurate information about the pandemic. Nevertheless, when the news verification and …
Artificial Intelligence and Journalistic Practice: The Crossroads of Obstacles and Opportunities for the Pakistani Journalists
In the past two decades, technological advancement has reshaped the news media landscape in many developed and developing countries of the world. Journalistic practice, especially in large-scale economies, is experiencing transformations due to the introduction of automatic artificial intelligence processes into different aspects of news production and dissemination. Now devices and machines are taking on the role of communicator, replacing journ…
Suffering in Silence: The Resilience of Pakistan’s Female Journalists to Combat Sexual Harassment, Threats and Discrimination
Pakistan’s journalists confront severe safety risks across the country and impunity to crimes against them allows the perpetrators to go unpunished. Now the country is recognized as one of the deadliest places for working journalists in the world. Given this situation, the Pakistani female journalists are more vulnerable because they are not only prone to safety risks and sexual harassment, but also they face gender discrimination when it comes t…
Ethnic news media in the digital age: The impact of technological convergence in reshaping journalists’ practices in Pakistan
Drawing on the theory of technological convergence, this study primarily investigates how technological convergence is reshaping the journalists’ practices of news production and distribution in Pakistan’s ethnic news media. This study also comparatively analyses challenges and constraints experienced by the Pakistani journalists from mainstream and ethnic news media to use digital technology (i.e. the use of computers, multimedia, the internet, …
From digital divide to digital inclusion: Challenges for wide-ranging digitalization in Pakistan
Discriminated in Society and Marginalized in Media: Social Representation of Christian Sanitary Workers in Pakistan
Sanitary workers are globally marginalized both in media and society. Such discrimination is often amplified when such essential workers belong to a religious minority in Muslim majority societies such as Pakistan. Drawing from the frameworks of social representation and social identity theories, this study uses the qualitative method of in-depth interviews with 30 Christian sanitary workers to shed light on the perception of representation of Ch…
Automated Journalism and the Freedom of Media: Understanding Legal and Ethical Implications in Competitive Authoritarian Regime
Today news organizations of many developed countries, being part of the digital world, are heralding new ways of news production through automated journalism and embracing new sort of technology-related challenges. The relationship between journalists and automation can vary significantly in different socio-cultural contexts, suggesting considering how automated journalism impacts media freedom through diverse legal and ethical problems. While th…
The Monitored Watchdogs: Journalists’ Surveillance and its Repercussions for their Professional and Personal Lives in Pakistan
Journalists, across the world, are ever more at risk of surveillance from state and non-state antagonists. However, to work safely in a monitored environment is a substantial challenge for journalists. In such regimes, journalists and media organizations are often prone to attacks by the state authorities. Surveillance, no matter real or implied, the presence of state panopticon power is felt strongly by the journalists, especially in competitive…
Ethnic Journalism in the Global South
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East
This article provides a commentary on the special issue of “Digital Journalism” on “10 years after the Arab Uprising”. It highlights the role of social media in facilitating the Arab Spring Movements that erupted in 2010s. The commentary recognizes the evolving political dynamics of the Middle East and the rise of digital authoritarianism in the region. It portrays both the dark and bright sides of social media a decade later of Arab uprising, hi…
Building a Media Literate Society: Pathways to Improve Media and Information Literacy Education in Pakistan
This mixed-method study investigates the state of media and information literacy education in Pakistan by underlining the availability of relevant courses and trained teaching and research faculty at both public and private universities. Using United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) framework, this study explores the perception of faculty members across six key areas of general education and teacher development…
Digital Transformation in Journalism: Implications of Media Convergence for Journalists’ Work in Pakistan’s Mainstream News Media
Media Discourses and Representation of Marginalized Communities in Multicultural Societies
Evolving Newsrooms and the Second Level of Digital Divide: Implications for Journalistic Practice in Pakistan
News media industry is indeed no exception to witness the transforming impacts of the growing penetration of the Internet and digitalization, especially in the developed economies of the global North. However, research regarding the influence of the Internet and digitalization on evolving newsrooms and journalistic practice in the global South is limited. Particularly, the case of Pakistan is unique in the global South because the country ranks a…
Covid-19 pandemic and science reporting in Pakistan
While the COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to working journalists overall, South Asian countries are compounded by scientific illiteracy, language and cultural barriers, and a scarcity of trained science journalists. These constraints can impinge science journalism in the region along with other contextual factors. This study sheds light on science journalism in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Informed by the hierarchy of influences …
The growing norm of sexual harassment in Pakistan’s mainstream and ethnic news media
Across time, in a variety of forms and spaces -from homes and workplaces to digital domains of social media- women have become victims of sexual harassment. Over the last couple of years, the world has witnessed appalling cases followed under the #MeToo campaign that has inspired an increasing number of women to share their experiences of sexual harassment in different contexts. Nevertheless, social and family pressures may discourage female jour…
Environmental journalism education beyond the conventional pedagogical approaches: Exploring the scope of experiential learning to train Pakistan’s journalism students
Environmental issues are steadily increasing across the world. News media plays a significant role in highlighting environmental problems and facilitating the public debate to foster a healthy environment. The South Asian news media do report on environmental challenges. However, the major focus of news media’s coverage remains politics, economy, regional and international security issues. In the case of Pakistan, the second largest South Asian c…
The Impact of China’s Biopolitical Approach to Covid-19 on Pets
Using the frameworks of biopower and uses and gratification theory, this article examines the treatment of pets in China during the COVID-19 outbreak and the role of social media in fulfilling users’ social needs by facilitating discussions on associated animal welfare issues and mobilizing animal advocates to take action. The analysis focuses on how social media comments on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, have influenced public discour…
Syncing with Science: The Challenge of Knowledge-based Journalism to Report on Science in Pakistan
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the public interest in science, and thus the need to report on scientific facts and information correctly has increased. While the pandemic has posed challenges to working journalists across the globe, problems for Pakistani journalists continue to grow. The country’s journalists struggle not only to report on the pandemic but also to report on other scientific matters ranging from environmental issues to techn…
The changing ethnic news media landscapes: Implications of technological convergence in multicultural Pakistan and Russia
Media representation of ethnic minorities and communities is important in multicultural societies that reflect ethnic cultural diversity. Therefore, the role of ethnic news media becomes crucial to give voices to marginalized communities, especially in the digital age when their cultural practices, issues and concerns can reach faster beyond the national territories. With technological advancements, ethnic news media practices are also transformi…
Disinformation and Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Online Journalism in China
pero creada y distribuida con una intención maliciosa. A pesar de sus posibles efectos negativos, la IA está transformando el panorama mediático junto con otras tecnologías. Este artículo explora la relación entre la IA y la desinformación en el contexto del periodismo en línea chino. La ciberesfera china se puede explicar a través de definiciones opuestas. Por ejemplo, China es un país donde los medios de comunicación masiva, especialmente los m…
Contending with Sexual Harassment: A Study of Southern African Female Journalists’ Experiences
This paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on sexual harassment of female journalists from the Global South more broadly and Southern Africa in particular. We selected three Southern African countries for this investigation: Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Namibia. Much of sub-Saharan Africa still experiences patriarchy that has proven to be resilient with misogynistic residue. Theoretically, the study utilizes the new institutionalism …
Political science (30 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Social science (18 works) · Public relations (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Media studies (16 works) · Qualitative research (15 works) · Journalism (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Media Studies and Communication (14 works)