Perceptions of Online Academics’ and Al-Jazeera.net’s News Coverage of the Egyptian Political Transformation 2013-2014

News nowadays is framed according to its makers. A single news item can be presented in different frames. The Rohingya are currently considered one of the most oppressed minorities worldwide. However, this minority did not receive enough support to alleviate their crisis. In this article framing theory is implemented to discover the frames used by Aljazeera and BBC in framing the causes and ramifications of the Rohingya crisis. This paper found out that news covered six main causes of the Rohingya crisis. The prominent cause that both Aljazeera and BBC agreed upon was security and military causes. 91.8% of the coverage was allocated to this prominent cause. The remaining 8.2% was for the other causes. Concerning ramifications, it was found out that news of Aljazeera and BBC collectively covered 20 ramifications. The majority of the ramifications were covered by both Aljazeera and BBC. However, Aljazeera independently cover 17 ramifications and the BBC independently covered only 10 ramifications. The main three ramifications that framed both Aljazeera and BBC news were deportation, mass massacres and oppression. Throughout the news observation, both Aljazeera and BBC framed their news by focusing on detailed incidents rather than establishing a holistic picture of the crisis. The frames implemented by Aljazeera and BBC were mainly the powerlessness frame and marginally the responsibility frame.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 83%

Media Framing of Minorities’ Crisis: A Study on Aljazeera and BBC News Coverage of the Rohingya

Kanaker¹,

Abughazlih²,

Kasmani³

2020

“…According to Elareshi, Alsirdi and Ziani (2020), the growth of the Internet has enabled many people to communicate and engage in different manners and it is easier than ever now to obtain news and information content via different online settings. Taibi and Na (2020) agree that the rise of the Internet and social media have provided alternative ways for people to access information.…”

Section: Literature Review Online Discourse and Facebookmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rise of the 5th Estate: How Online Public Discourse on Najib Razak’s 1MDB Scandal Foreshadowed Pakatan Harapan’s Win in the 14th General Election

Nor

Firdaus

Kaur

2020

Public discourse commonly takes place in public forums of free media. The 4th estate provides an external dimension to the democratic check and balance to the executive (1st estate), the legislative (2nd estate), and the judiciary (3rd estate). This paper discusses the rise of a social media 5th estate, as exemplified by online public discourse surrounding the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, and the country's ensuing electoral change of government. Drawing upon thematic analyses of 1MDB-related comments in the official Facebook page of Free Malaysia Today, this paper illustrates the rise of a social media 5th estate in the run-up to Pakatan Harapan's win in the Malaysian 2018 14th General Election. Since international public disclosure in 2015 of former Malaysian premier Najib Razak's purported siphoning of billions of ringgit from 1MDB, the scandal continues to be a trending topic on Malaysian social media. The online discourse of 1MDB evolved from heated posts discussing Najib's culpability and criticism of his Barisan Nasional administration, into support to the opposition Pakatan Harapan coalition, particularly in the run-up to the 14th Malaysian General Elections (GE14) that was held on 9th May 2018. Pakatan Harapan's win, following the social media support, exemplifies the power of a netizen-fuelled 5th estate.

“…This study focuses on whether the Gulf Elites depend where political crises emerge, often portraying a Western-specific orientalist perspective (Fahmy & Kim, 2008;Fiske, 2011). This distorted media image, particularly concerning the Arab world, often becomes problematic and inhibits any form of resolution (BBC, 2013;Elareshi et al, 2020;Fahmy & Johnson, 2007). In the presence of state-sponsored media merely acting as mouthpieces for the governments in conflicts, the international press does a balancing act (Fahmy & Kim, 2008).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gulf Elites’ Dependence on International Press in Times of Crisis: The US-Iran crisis 2019-2020

Ziani

Elareshi

Chaudhary

et al. 2022

International press coverage is often considered a legitimate source of informed opinion, especially during a political conflict such as the US-Iran crisis in 2019-2020. The international press coverage needs an in-depth understanding of such socio-political relationships to understand direct media effects and media dependability. Most studies have examined the intersection of international relations with communication and media studies and failed to consider the effects of emotional, cognitive and behavioural media on other non-state actors involved in the conflict. This study attempts to identify the degree to which the Gulf Elites – powerful non-state actors – depend and prefer the international press (newspapers) for following news coverage of the crisis, their news coverage professionalism, and news sources. An online survey was conducted with a snowball sampling technique which resulted in more than 200 Gulf Elites (following Al-Din Hassan’s classification) in five Gulf countries: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, and Kuwait. The research indicated that, overall, these newspapers were followed/read to some extent, with a preference for accessing them online, confirming the ease of online accessibility in the region. The two UK newspapers were highly preferred compared to the two US and French newspapers. However, the news coverage of the crisis was described as lacking professionalism, and respondents showed a lack of interest in following such coverage, highlighting the emergence of Pan-Arab media. Keywords: American-Iranian relationship, Gulf Elites, news sources, international press, colonialism.