73. Author: Tine Ustad Figenschou Title: Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape: The South is Talking Back Publisher: Routledge, UK Year: 2013 Language: English
Description : This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world in 2011. Aiming to explain the ‘Al Jazeera moment’, the book tracks the channel’s bumpy road towards international recognition in a longitudinal, in-depth analysis of the channel’s editorial profile and strategies. Studying AJE from its launch in mid-November 2006 to the ‘Arab Spring’, it explains and problematizes the channel’s ambitious editorial agenda and strategies, examines the internal conflicts, practical challenges and minor breakthroughs in its formative years. The Al Jazeera-phenomenon has received massive attention, but it remains under- researched. The growth of transnational satellite television has transformed the global media landscape into a complex web of multi-vocal, multimedia and multi- directional flows. 74. Author: Noureddine Miladi Title: Al Jazeera and the Arab Revolution: Public Opinion, Diplomacy and Political Change Publisher: Intellect Ltd, UK Year: 2013 Language: English Description: ‘Al Jazeera and the Arab Revolution’ tells the story of how the network came to have such influence. Tracing the emergence of Al Jazeera from its emergence in 1996 to its rise as a leading global media network, the author contends that the satellite channel began a new era of Arab broadcasting, revolutionizing Arabs’ ideas of the news and even Arab consciousness itself. To support this argument, he draws on a wealth of interviews with journalists, policy makers, and political activists who speak to Al Jazeera’s impact on public opinion and politics. The resulting portrait depicts a channel that has become an international force in its own right, challenging Arab as well as some Western powers and fueling political change in the Arab world.
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