Communication Research in the Arab World a New Perspective

Ayish, Muhammad I.

doi:10.1080/13183222.1998.11008666

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“…In this sense, members of Kuwaiti society are primarily concerned with the needs of the groups to which they belong, and they consequently tend to view ‘self’ as entrenched in group relationships (Al-Husaini, 2004). This reinforces the rule of ‘obligation’ over ‘rights’ and is related to paternalism, a characteristic of Arabic culture that is built on the same concept of placing the welfare of the group over the welfare of the individual (Ayish, 1998).…”

Section: The Political Socio-cultural and Economic Contextmentioning

confidence: 63%

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The role of pragmatic cultural schema in analysing public relations communication strategies

Almutairi¹,

Sharoufi²,

Dashti

2019

Public Relations Inquiry

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This article adopts a critical approach to public relations by applying a new model for analysing public relations discourse in the context of the Kuwaiti Police. It further attempts to apply a new pragmatic framework that might provide a new alternative for analysing public relations practices thus shedding more light on this professional area. Hence, it is suggested in this article that the use of Sharifian’s cultural pragmatic framework could be effective in anchoring overarching meanings in public relations discourse. Three Officers from the Kuwaiti Police were consequently interviewed for this study, with their interviews being analysed in light of the new framework, thereby exploring the issue of cultural influence in public relations discourse and testing the efficacy of applying the new framework on public relation practices. The application of this framework subsequently generates four themes related to Police public relations discourse.

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Section: The Political Socio-cultural and Economic Contextmentioning

confidence: 63%

“…Paternalism is a cultural characteristic that influences social relations and consequently, communication; thereby emphasising power, collective good, obedience and harmony (Ayish, 1998). For example, the Emir of Kuwait is often referred to as the ‘father of the people’.…”

Section: The Political Socio-cultural and Economic Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of pragmatic cultural schema in analysing public relations communication strategies

Almutairi¹,

Sharoufi²,

Dashti

2019

Public Relations Inquiry

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“…In addition, the study aimed to identify individual and organizational characteristics that may impact a journalist's ability to perform investigative journalism based on Amin's (2002) and Ayish's (1998) concepts, concerning ownership of the media and restrictions posed on journalists working in state-media and indirect restrictions for those in private media, including censorship, self-censorship, lack of freedoms and limiting legal frameworks, and Pintak and Ginges (2008), Ramaprasad and Hamdy (2007) and Kim's (2011) notions on individual characteristics of Arab journalists. The findings did not support the notion that any particular characteristics were an impediment to journalists' potential performance.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other classifications of the Arab press have been based on ownership patterns and economic variables (Ayish 1998), classifying countries into categories by state media ownership and mixed-system groups. Ayish finds that there is no relationship between media ownership and the persistence of reporters to do their job.…”

Section: Press Theories and The Democratic Role Of Investigative Jourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Arab investigative journalism practice

Hamdy

2013

Journal of Arab &Amp; Muslim Media Research

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Given investigative journalism's purpose of providing accountability and exposing wrongdoing of governments and business, this study examines whether changes in political circumstances due to the Arab revolutions have given rise to the production of more investigative reporting, whether Arab journalists have the same understanding of the meaning of investigative journalism as their western counterparts, and if individual or organizational characteristics encourage or hinder journalists' performance. Findings indicated that changes in the political environment did not generally help them conduct such reporting. Results also indicated that individual, organization or ownership types did not dictate their capacity to perform such investigations. Rather the ability depended on how much the individual journalist believed and understood this to be a unique type of journalism genre as well as whether they were advanced enough in their career to perform such in-depth work. The results also indicated that Arab journalists believe in their ability to make change and are motivated by a sense of self-fulfillment to provide the public with watchdog journalism.

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“…The famous Arab expression, "if speech is made of silver, silence is gold," demonstrates this idea (Ba'alabki 1980). Within a traditional Arab upbringing, if a person is not able to produce "good" conversation, that person should remain silent (Ayish 1998). Florian and Zernitsky-Shurka (1987) found that Arab people showed a lower level of assertiveness than Israeli people.…”

Section: Voice In Arab Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Dynamics from an Arab Perspective

Khan

Gregory

et al. 2015

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

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Gender plays an important role in Arab customers' evaluation of intercultural service encounters. Even though Middle Eastern tourists are a growing market segment in the travel industry, academic research on them from a service management perspective remains relatively sparse. To understand Arab customers' evaluation of service experiences, this research focuses on the gender dynamics between service providers and Arab customers during a service encounter. Online surveys of a scenario-based experiment were created and distributed to respondents of Arab descent in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. The findings, based on 326 respondents, suggest that Arab customers are more comfortable-more satisfied with the service encounter and more willing to provide feedback-if the employee is the same gender. However, employee efforts to solicit feedback did not intensify the gender interaction effect on comfort. The findings of this research provide valuable implications for hospitality managers to better cater to the needs of Arab customers by understanding gender boundaries of them in an intercultural service encounter.

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Communication Research in the Arab World a New Perspective

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

The role of pragmatic cultural schema in analysing public relations communication strategies

The role of pragmatic cultural schema in analysing public relations communication strategies

Arab investigative journalism practice

Gender Dynamics from an Arab Perspective

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