Egypt’s media system: historic legacies and blocked potentials for independent media

Badr, Hanan

doi:10.1007/s11616-019-00537-8

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“…According to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2020 report, there are several journalists behind bars, and around 500 blocked websites in the country (Reporters Without Borders 2020). It is argued that the 2018 media laws in Egypt are tightening the grip on the internet public sphere (Badr 2020; RSF 2020). Moreover, Badr (2020) notes that unspoken rules, layoffs decided from above, and self-censorship impact newsroom dynamics, contending that the coverage of some issues was homogeneous which could indicate dictated scripts.…”

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More or More of the Same: Ownership Concentration and Media Diversity in Egypt

Badr

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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The Egyptian media has witnessed various changes in the ownership spectrum after the 2011 revolution. To explore this evolution, and through the Habermasian lens, this study examined ownership concentration in the 2019 media sphere in Egypt by mapping media outlets and their owners. It also investigated the relationship between this concentration and content diversity in a sample of print outlets in the first quarter of 2019. Three patterns of ownership concentration in the Egyptian media were identified: concentrated state ownership, concentrated private ownership, and not concentrated private ownership. Based on these findings, I argue that the media sphere in Egypt is dominated by a few gatekeepers, mostly the state, that influence content diversity and jeopardize the democratic public sphere in postrevolution Egypt.

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More or More of the Same: Ownership Concentration and Media Diversity in Egypt

Badr

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…In these virtual struggles, the pro-regime trolls have the upper hand, controlling about 70 percent of the hashtags, compared to only about five percent controlled by Sisi’s opponents (Karan, 2018, p. 355; Zain, 2018). In recent years, monitoring and blocking of websites have also been prevalent under Sisi (Badr, 2020; Elazhary & El Taher, 2018; Herrera, 2015).…”

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The Relationship between the State and the New Media in Egypt: A Dynamic of Openness, Adaptation, and Narrowing

Lavie

Yefet

2022

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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This article offers a new perspective on the extensive discussion of the role of new media in facilitating the 2011 Egyptian uprising by placing it within the historical context of how the state responded to new media in the previous decades. This article uses an archaeological analysis of state media to reveal how the state coped with the news media (newspapers, radio, television, satellite television) in the past to infer the present relationship between the state and the new media (the internet and social media). We discerned a recurring cyclical pattern characterized by a dynamic of openness–adaptation–narrowing, which sheds light on the media’s ability to challenge state authority and on the state’s ability to contain and limit new media. We suggest that the role of the internet and social media in the Egyptian “Arab Spring” should be viewed as being on this continuum, as an extension of processes of state–media relations that had developed in the preceding decades.

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“…While early media development and a strong historical legacy lend verve to Egyptian journalism, the current narrative is dominated by the crisis in journalism and journalism education (Badr, 2020). Most of the existing literature is critical of the current state of communication education in Egypt.…”

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How Higher Education Faculty in Egypt Perceive the Effects of Covid-19 on Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication: Perspectives From the Global South

Badr

Elmaghraby

2021

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator

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The article critically examines how faculty in journalism and mass communication perceive the Covid-19 impact on higher education in Egypt. Using an online survey ( N = 135) and 14 in-depth interviews in spring–summer 2020, the article contextualizes the faculty’s ambivalent perceptions within the diffusion of innovation theory. The article bridges a gap in the existing literature by localizing this disrupted delivery in relation to the broader challenges and opportunities for diffusion of digital innovations in higher education. The results nuance the debate on digital education beyond a techno-determinist focus on digital skills to encompass societal awareness of regional and culture-specific digital inequalities.

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Egypt’s media system: historic legacies and blocked potentials for independent media

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

More or More of the Same: Ownership Concentration and Media Diversity in Egypt

More or More of the Same: Ownership Concentration and Media Diversity in Egypt

The Relationship between the State and the New Media in Egypt: A Dynamic of Openness, Adaptation, and Narrowing

How Higher Education Faculty in Egypt Perceive the Effects of Covid-19 on Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication: Perspectives From the Global South

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