142. Name: Rania Farouk El Jammal Title: Al Jazeera Evolution within the Arab Revolutions Institution: American University of Beirut Country: Lebanon Date: 2013 Language: English Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the role of Al Jazeera in the recent Arab Spring uprisings. Al Jazeera has been widely recognized as a catalyst for the events that took place. Notably, Al Jazeera became heavily involved with citizen journalism, where the local people in the Arab countries were able express themselves with regard to events happening in their society. It is against this background that this study investigates how Al Jazeera Arabic and English channels covered the Arab Spring uprising, how effective their coverage was, and what sort of the challenges the two channels faced in carrying out their coverage. To evaluate these emerging themes, the researcher used content analysis methodology. The approaches used by Aljazeera in providing live and hard news to the Middle East and the entire world could act as a framework for other mainstream media entities in covering emergent political unrest around the globe. Therefore, an analysis of how this mainstream media was able to cover the Arab Spring uprisings using these new approaches can contribute to future refinement of the accrual and dissemination of timely, instant, impartial news.
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