79. Author: Mokhtar Elareshi Title: News Consumption in Libya: A Study of University Students Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK Year: 2013 Language: English
Description: This book examines the relationship between Libyan students’ consumption of Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya news services and their perceptions of news issues. This involves examining students’ general news consumption habits and their motives for the choices they make. In the face of competition from well- resourced broadcasters such as Al Jazeera, what can local Libyan news services do to retain audience interest and loyalty? Do they need to do anything different? Is there room for local and international news in Libya? The book also explores whether news services such as Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya affected young adults’ use of local news channels. Perceptions of the quality of news provision by these channels are also examined as a factor that could mediate consumption patterns. 80. Author: Chris Veits
Title: Conflict Coverage Promotion: High Quality or High Concept? A Multimodal Analysis of Claims-making in Conflict Coverage Promotional Spots of Al Jazeera English and CNN International Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing, Germany Year: 2014 Language: English
Description: Today even the war coverage of news channels is subject to heavy promotion and part of the networks’ advertising and branding campaigns. These commercial aspects of news production seem to oppose concepts of journalistic quality. This book analyses claims of journalistic quality and ‘high concept’ in conflict coverage promotion spots and how they help better understand the ideological complexes of CNN International and Al Jazeera English. The findings show an equal number of quality and ‘high concept’ claims with differences in the nature of the claims between the two networks. Strong patterns are found in quality and ‘high concept’ claims of both networks. The book shows that analyzing this kind of media content needs to be multimodal and a social semiotic approach is required.
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