9. Author: Alessandro Cervi Title: Al Jazeera and the Revolution of Arab Media Publisher: Sellerio Editoro Palermo, Italy Year: 2005 Language: Italian
Description: This book tells Al Jazeera’s story focusing on le less known details that have accompanied the channel’s rise. The author discusses how Al Jazeera is considered a rare example of media organization that play a key role in revolutionizing the media and determining the future trends of communication in the Arab region. Al Jazeera’s experience needs to read and understood in the wider context of globalization and its characteristics, including the unavoidable path to pluralism. In this globalized context, diversity increases and its side effects can have greater impact, especially when people experience the feeling of freedom and enjoy free access to uncensored information. Al Jazeera is an integral part of this regional process in which it is playing a leading and transformational role. 10. Author: Philip Fiske de Gouveia Title: An African Al Jazeera? Mass Media and the African Renaissance Publisher: Foreign Policy Centre, UK Year: 2005 Language: English Description: While the debate continue about how best to assist progress in Africa, one potential factor in the ‘African renaissance’ receives less attention than most: the media. Historically, the media has played a fundamental role in democratization and economic growth across the world. However, its significance is routinely downplayed by development strategists. Focusing on the success of trans-national media like Al Jazeera, the author examines the ways in which media might contribute to change across the African continent. He looks at the role that the media could play as part of political and economic advances in Africa. In this regard, the book discusses the idea that Africa should end its information dependence on the West by creating an indigenous pan-African broadcaster similar to Al Jazeera.
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