Hegemonic No More: Western Media, the Rise of Al-Jazeera, and the Influence of Diverse Voices

Seib, Philip

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2486.2005.00535.x

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“…After being somewhat isolated during the Iraqi invasion, Kuwait made it a priority to insure access for its entire population (both Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis) to the latest communications technologies including US, Asian, Middle Eastern and European media outlets (Wheeler, 2000). Ghareeb (2000), Sakr (2001) and Seib (2005) present authoritative information on the development of media during the 1990s in the Middle East, which we summarize here. Prior to the 1990-1 Gulf War and the emergence of satellite television, many in Arab nations relied on western media outlets such as the BBC, Radio Monte Carlo, the Voice of America, etc.…”

Section: Attitudes Toward the West And Its Mediamentioning

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Changed Political Attitudes in the Middle East

Meyer

Rizzo

Ali

2007

International Sociology

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The groundswell of interest in Middle Eastern public opinion that arose from debates over the 'third wave' of democracy and the 'clash of civilizations' as well as from September 11 spawned numerous surveys from 2000 on. However, surveys from the Middle East, particularly longitudinal ones, are largely absent from earlier decades and limit ability to contextualize current findings. Drawing on three surveys from the 1990s, this article examines changes in Kuwaiti citizens' attitudes toward democracy and related issues in the years following the Gulf War of 1991. This serves as a baseline for current research not only in Kuwait but also in other nations, taking account of differences. Findings show that from 1994 to 1998, Kuwaitis increased their preference for democracy, but not for women's rights or western media. They developed more affinity for the Arab world, particularly the Gulf Coast countries. Regarding religious beliefs and practices, there was an increasing desire to separate religion from the public sphere while remaining religious privately. These trends were directional rather than cyclical or fluctuating, and they held across population subgroups.The 1990s was a decade of dramatic social change in Kuwait, a small but strategically important nation in the Middle East. It began with the 1990-1 invasion, occupation and then liberation from Iraqi military forces; it ended in 1999 with an Amiri decree granting women full political rights.

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Section: Attitudes Toward the West And Its Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Changed Political Attitudes in the Middle East

Meyer

Rizzo

Ali

2007

International Sociology

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“…The lexicons and selection of words and images shape the news narratives about the issue and audiences" perceptions of events and the "other" (Seib, 2005). Thus the newspaper in the editorials has discursively constructed India as an aggressor, violators of human rights and international law and an "other" with evil intentions towards "us".…”

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Discursive Reproduction of Ideology in the National Elite Press of Pakistan

Ali¹

2017

IJLC

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Newspapers are important ideological sites to construct and articulate ideologies and their dissemination. This study attempts to unravel how the elite press in Pakistan discursively constructs the "other" while reporting a regional conflict. It reveals that the press reproduces and reifies the ethnocentric and nationalistic sentiments in the news discourse by representing the "us" and "them" in highly ideological polarization. India is represented as an "enemy other" in contrast to Pakistan which is represented as peaceful, rule-abiding and under consistent threat from an aggressive India. The distant actors namely the US, UN and international actors are also represented predominantly negatively. The findings are discussed in terms of ideology, national identity and nationalism.

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“…As subscriptions to satellite services surged in Arab households, national audiences were able to access transnational media as an alternative to state‐controlled broadcasts. This allowed Al‐Jazeera to become vastly popular in Arab households (Seib, ). Miles () reports that by the year 2000, Al‐Jazeera garnered more than 35 million viewers each night, while state television stations across the Arab world could barely compete.…”

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Al-Jazeera and the Arab Uprisings: The Language of Images and a Medium's Stancetaking

Nasr

2014

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This study (a) investigates the complex set of emergent meanings from Al‐Jazeera's visual narratives about itself, and (b) analyzes how Al‐Jazeera's visual texts articulate a broader set of nationalist meanings concerning Qatar, its home country. Rather than a content analysis of language, visual elements are emphasized, which transcend the news story or program content. The “content” here involves not just events themselves but the metatextual meanings emerging from the images woven among programs, promotional videos, and commercial advertisements.

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Hegemonic No More: Western Media, the Rise of Al-Jazeera, and the Influence of Diverse Voices

Cited by 45 publications

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Changed Political Attitudes in the Middle East

Changed Political Attitudes in the Middle East

Discursive Reproduction of Ideology in the National Elite Press of Pakistan

Al-Jazeera and the Arab Uprisings: The Language of Images and a Medium's Stancetaking

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