Radio and political change: listening in contemporary Morocco

Sonay, Ali

doi:10.1080/13629387.2017.1307903

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“…The constitutional reforms of 2011 expanded media pluralism. The partial liberalization of the audio-visual sector with the expansion of commercial radio in the last decade has widened the scope of debate on social issues that used to be considered “untouchable” (Sonay, 2017). Television remains largely state owned; private licenses for television are very limited and the process for getting one lacks transparency (Issiali, 2013).…”

Section: The Moroccan “Spring” and The Media Landscape: Between Cyclesmentioning

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Alternative Public Spaces in Hybrid Media Environments: Dissent in High Uncertainty

Issawi

2021

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Independent news websites and press played a vital role in creating spaces of contention in the context of the Moroccan pro-democracy movement of 2011. This article looks at the role of this press in disseminating alternative narratives in the hybrid media and political environment that followed the pro-democracy movement. Based on extensive interviews with journalists, this article examines journalists’ practices in countering hegemonic media and political discourse, to understand how they contribute to—or hinder—the formation of counter publics under tough repression. The article uses the critical frameworks of dominant and counter-publics and Judith Butler’s concept of silencing.

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Alternative Public Spaces in Hybrid Media Environments: Dissent in High Uncertainty

Issawi

2021

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…This expansion of the audience – a process already well under way with the development of domestic and foreign television networks, private radio stations (Sonay, 2017), and Arabic-language newspapers in the years 2000 – is reflected in the high number of visitors attracted by online media in comparison with the printed press. According to a 2015 study (LMS-CSA, Fédération Marocaine des Éditeurs de Journaux, 2016), based on a sample of literate Moroccans aged 15 and above, 67% of respondents said they read the online press, while 17% favoured the printed press and 26% read both.…”

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Writing between the ‘red lines’: Morocco’s digital media landscape

Benchenna

Marchetti

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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This article presents an overview of the emergence of online news sites, which has radically altered news provision and media consumption patterns in Morocco. This sector has rapidly become a strategic site. Firstly, its precedence over print media and national television networks does not only stem from the high traffic figures of news websites. Along with certain social platforms, these websites are the only vehicules for 24/7 news in a country which currently has just one such news channel and where, in spite of the ‘liberalisation’ of media, national networks provide very institutionalised news programs based on the activities of the state official institutions and of the monarchy. Secondly, certain domestic Arabic-language news websites have become the main platform for the voicing of political dissent. Based on 31 interviews, the article briefly describes the historical development of the online press, since the ‘February 20th Movement’ of 2011. This case study provides a good example of the new challenges surrounding the control of information: an issue long shaped by the limitation of news provision to duly authorised political and journalistic organisations and by limited ‘demand’ resulting from widespread illiteracy. This article describes how the Moroccan establishment react to the explosive growth of online news media by creating new mechanisms to control it.

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The construction of gendered identities in Moroccan radio phone-in programmes

Bouhout¹

2019

The Journal of North African Studies

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Radio and political change: listening in contemporary Morocco

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Alternative Public Spaces in Hybrid Media Environments: Dissent in High Uncertainty

Alternative Public Spaces in Hybrid Media Environments: Dissent in High Uncertainty

Writing between the ‘red lines’: Morocco’s digital media landscape

The construction of gendered identities in Moroccan radio phone-in programmes

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