Review: Global War — Local Views

Azran, Tal

doi:10.1177/1329878x0712300130

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“…In any case, Al-Jazeera's ambition to become a global brand motivated it to launch an English outlet in 2003, the Al-Jazeera English news website, with the aim of reaching international audiences in a non-mediated way. The Al-Jazeera English website provided international audiences with direct access to news regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as raising issues from the developing world and introducing a non-Western perspective (Azran, 2006; Figenschou, 2010). Next, in November 2006, the Al-Jazeera Media Network launched an English television news channel – Al-Jazeera English – with a reported billion-dollar investment (Rushing, 2007).…”

Section: The Al-jazeera Effectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical support for the Al-Jazeera Effect notion: Al-Jazeera's Twitter following

Samuel-Azran¹,

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2022

International Communication Gazette

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Globalization scholars argue that the launch of Al-Jazeera has promoted a fairer horizontal news flow as a non-Western perspective entered the global public sphere leading to the Al-Jazeera Effect. In contrast, other scholars argue that Al-Jazeera outlets face biases and boycotts due to their Qatari origin, thus casting a shadow over the Al Jazeera Effect argument. This study employs an innovative approach to contribute to this debate by examining Al-Jazeera English (AJE) and AJ + 's Twitter following amongst four epistemic communities: ambassadors, foreign ministries, UN missions and journalists. The analysis found that AJE was consistently amongst the top five most followed new channels on Twitter, obtaining greater popularity than major Western news outlets such as Fox News and Sky News. This lends a unique empirical support for the Al-Jazeera Effect hypothesis. AJ + was found to be less popular, possibly due to its distinct nature as an online news platform.

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Section: The Al-jazeera Effectmentioning

confidence: 99%