William Lafi Youmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 5914636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Lafi Youmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Lafi |
| FAMILY NAME | Youmans |
| SIGNATURE | YOUMANS W L |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-7060-6407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Producing the Middle East: An Introduction
Lockman 2016; Szanton 2004). Another common refrain is the geographical presumption that the West is the default starting point for regional positioning.Whether called the 'Middle East and North Africa' (mena), 'Southwest Asia and North Africa' (swana), 'Near East' or any other term, all regional labels appear inadequate or indefensible.The same applies to the Arabic regional formations of al-Mashriq, al-Maghreb and al-Khaleej.Every demarcation c…
Rhetoric and Recollection: Recounting the George W. Bush Administration's Case for War in Iraq
President George W. Bush and his administration presented a variety of justifications for the 2003 Iraq war. Academic literature and journalism about the communication campaign emphasized two reasons: Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction program and links to terrorism. Drawing on the first systematic content analysis of the administration's official speeches and statements, this study recounts a more complex, changing campaign with surprisi…
The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World
As heroic as the Arab Spring protestors were, their hopes for liberation gave way to intensified state repression, repackaged authoritarianism, and horrific wars. Marwan Kraidy, the Anthony Shadid Chair of Global Media, Politics, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania, invites us to revisit those heady days, not for nostalgic purposes but to recognize the raw, sometimes self-sacrificial inventiveness that Arabs marshal to challenge entrenc…
An unwilling client: How Hosni Mubarak's Egypt defied the Bush administration's ‘freedom agenda’
When the George W Bush administration announced the ‘freedom agenda’ in the Middle East, officials claimed it marked a major break in United States (US) foreign policy. In 2005, the administration intensified efforts pressuring Egypt, a client state, to democratize. However, the US continued pursuing security cooperation with and providing military aid to Egypt. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak repelled US reform efforts by exploiting the normati…
A New Purpose for International Broadcasting: Subsidizing Deliberative Technologies in Nontransitioning States
In failed or failing states, deliberation as it is operationalized in much of the political communication literature is inapplicable. These states lack advanced communication infrastructures, press systems and public spheres, which require high literacy rates, education, the rule of law and other elements of an enabling regulatory environment. Rather than imagining deliberation as a series of exchanges over focused issues, a scaled down standard …
Intermedia Framing and Intercultural Communication: How Other Media Affect American Antipathy toward Al Jazeera English
By covering underrepresented areas in the world, Al Jazeera English (AJE) can facilitate intercultural understanding among Americans. However, AJE is not widely available on television in the United States. Further, many Americans hold pre-formed suspicions of the channel. Through an online experiment, we find that pre-reception audience bias against AJE exists and correlates with prejudice against Arab Americans, limiting its conciliatory potent…
Social Media and the Activist Toolkit: User Agreements, Corporate Interests, and the Information Infrastructure of Modern Social Movements
Peer Reviewed
Can Al Jazeera English Leverage its ‘Egypt Moment’ into an American Audience
Al Jazeera English (AJE)1 entered the competitive global news field in late 2006, claiming to give a “voice to the voiceless” as the “world's first English language news channel to have its headquarters in the Middle East.” AJE nonetheless did not position itself as an Arab network merely broadcasting in English – a natural assumption given the prominence of its older, Arabic language sister channel. Rather, AJE declared and maintains a “global” …
The Debate Over Al Jazeera English in Burlington, VT.r
Al Jazeera English struggles to gain wide TV distribution in the United States. This paper is a case study of one of the few communities it is available. The story of its carriage and the debate over it says something about the network's chances in the United States, as well as American receptivity to the channel. Reviewing the local debate in Burlington, VT over AJE by the local public, city-funded telecom company illustrates the discourses of s…
Humor Against Hegemony: Al-Hurra, Jokes, and the Limits of American Soft Power
In 2004, the United States launched an Arabic language satellite television station, Al-Hurra ('the free one'). As a mass media outlet designed to enhance American geopolitical influence, it is considered one manifestation of a 'soft power' strategy. Soft power, however, is only effective to the extent that it can rely on 'willing interpreters and receivers'. This article considers humor in Al-Hurra's workplace and among its intended audience as …
Rhetoric and Recollection: Recounting the George W. Bush Administration's Case for War in Iraq
President George W. Bush and his administration presented a variety of justifications for the 2003 Iraq war. Academic literature and journalism about the communication campaign emphasized two reasons: Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction program and links to terrorism. Drawing on the first systematic content analysis of the administration's official speeches and statements, this study recounts a more complex, changing campaign with surprisi…
The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World
As heroic as the Arab Spring protestors were, their hopes for liberation gave way to intensified state repression, repackaged authoritarianism, and horrific wars. Marwan Kraidy, the Anthony Shadid Chair of Global Media, Politics, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania, invites us to revisit those heady days, not for nostalgic purposes but to recognize the raw, sometimes self-sacrificial inventiveness that Arabs marshal to challenge entrenc…
An unwilling client: How Hosni Mubarak's Egypt defied the Bush administration's ‘freedom agenda’
When the George W Bush administration announced the ‘freedom agenda’ in the Middle East, officials claimed it marked a major break in United States (US) foreign policy. In 2005, the administration intensified efforts pressuring Egypt, a client state, to democratize. However, the US continued pursuing security cooperation with and providing military aid to Egypt. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak repelled US reform efforts by exploiting the normati…
Producing the Middle East: An Introduction
Lockman 2016; Szanton 2004). Another common refrain is the geographical presumption that the West is the default starting point for regional positioning.Whether called the 'Middle East and North Africa' (mena), 'Southwest Asia and North Africa' (swana), 'Near East' or any other term, all regional labels appear inadequate or indefensible.The same applies to the Arabic regional formations of al-Mashriq, al-Maghreb and al-Khaleej.Every demarcation c…
Humor Against Hegemony: Al-Hurra, Jokes, and the Limits of American Soft Power
In 2004, the United States launched an Arabic language satellite television station, Al-Hurra ('the free one'). As a mass media outlet designed to enhance American geopolitical influence, it is considered one manifestation of a 'soft power' strategy. Soft power, however, is only effective to the extent that it can rely on 'willing interpreters and receivers'. This article considers humor in Al-Hurra's workplace and among its intended audience as …
Humor Against Hegemony: Al-Hurra, Jokes, and the Limits of American Soft Power
In 2004, the United States launched an Arabic language satellite television station, Al-Hurra ('the free one'). As a mass media outlet designed to enhance American geopolitical influence, it is considered one manifestation of a 'soft power' strategy. Soft power, however, is only effective to the extent that it can rely on 'willing interpreters and receivers'. This article considers humor in Al-Hurra's workplace and among its intended audience as …
Can Al Jazeera English Leverage its ‘Egypt Moment’ into an American Audience
Al Jazeera English (AJE)1 entered the competitive global news field in late 2006, claiming to give a “voice to the voiceless” as the “world's first English language news channel to have its headquarters in the Middle East.” AJE nonetheless did not position itself as an Arab network merely broadcasting in English – a natural assumption given the prominence of its older, Arabic language sister channel. Rather, AJE declared and maintains a “global” …
The Debate Over Al Jazeera English in Burlington, VT.r
Al Jazeera English struggles to gain wide TV distribution in the United States. This paper is a case study of one of the few communities it is available. The story of its carriage and the debate over it says something about the network's chances in the United States, as well as American receptivity to the channel. Reviewing the local debate in Burlington, VT over AJE by the local public, city-funded telecom company illustrates the discourses of s…
A New Purpose for International Broadcasting: Subsidizing Deliberative Technologies in Nontransitioning States
In failed or failing states, deliberation as it is operationalized in much of the political communication literature is inapplicable. These states lack advanced communication infrastructures, press systems and public spheres, which require high literacy rates, education, the rule of law and other elements of an enabling regulatory environment. Rather than imagining deliberation as a series of exchanges over focused issues, a scaled down standard …
Intermedia Framing and Intercultural Communication: How Other Media Affect American Antipathy toward Al Jazeera English
By covering underrepresented areas in the world, Al Jazeera English (AJE) can facilitate intercultural understanding among Americans. However, AJE is not widely available on television in the United States. Further, many Americans hold pre-formed suspicions of the channel. Through an online experiment, we find that pre-reception audience bias against AJE exists and correlates with prejudice against Arab Americans, limiting its conciliatory potent…
Social Media and the Activist Toolkit: User Agreements, Corporate Interests, and the Information Infrastructure of Modern Social Movements
Peer Reviewed
An unwilling client: How Hosni Mubarak's Egypt defied the Bush administration's ‘freedom agenda’
When the George W Bush administration announced the ‘freedom agenda’ in the Middle East, officials claimed it marked a major break in United States (US) foreign policy. In 2005, the administration intensified efforts pressuring Egypt, a client state, to democratize. However, the US continued pursuing security cooperation with and providing military aid to Egypt. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak repelled US reform efforts by exploiting the normati…
Rhetoric and Recollection: Recounting the George W. Bush Administration's Case for War in Iraq
President George W. Bush and his administration presented a variety of justifications for the 2003 Iraq war. Academic literature and journalism about the communication campaign emphasized two reasons: Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction program and links to terrorism. Drawing on the first systematic content analysis of the administration's official speeches and statements, this study recounts a more complex, changing campaign with surprisi…
The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World
As heroic as the Arab Spring protestors were, their hopes for liberation gave way to intensified state repression, repackaged authoritarianism, and horrific wars. Marwan Kraidy, the Anthony Shadid Chair of Global Media, Politics, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania, invites us to revisit those heady days, not for nostalgic purposes but to recognize the raw, sometimes self-sacrificial inventiveness that Arabs marshal to challenge entrenc…
Producing the Middle East: An Introduction
Lockman 2016; Szanton 2004). Another common refrain is the geographical presumption that the West is the default starting point for regional positioning.Whether called the 'Middle East and North Africa' (mena), 'Southwest Asia and North Africa' (swana), 'Near East' or any other term, all regional labels appear inadequate or indefensible.The same applies to the Arabic regional formations of al-Mashriq, al-Maghreb and al-Khaleej.Every demarcation c…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Business (3 works) · History (3 works)