meticulous that even its logo has been the subject of research. Moham- med Saeed Rihani analysed the relation between the artistic design of the Network’s logo and the semantics and news values its motto in- corporates (1) . Apart from media studies, academic research on Al Ja- zeera has covered a wide range of topics and issues. Examples include the geopolitics of media (2) , democracy and political reform (3) , human rights (4) , public sphere (5) , diaspora and identity (6) , feminism and women
er” in Mapping the Al Jazeera Phenomenon: 20 Years On , edited by Ezzeddine Abdelmoula and Noureddine Miladi, (Beirut, Al Jazeera Centre for Studies and the Arab of Scientific Publishers, 2016). pp. 265-280. (1) Mohamed Said Rihani, The Credibility of Arab Media Mottos in Constructing News Im- age: The Case of Al Jazeera’s Motto ‘the Opinion and Other Opinion’ , (Morocco, Tub Press, 2017). (2) Shawn Powers, The Geopolitics of the News: The Case of the Al Jazeera Network , (PhD Thesis, University of South California, 2009). (3) See for example, Robin Kabha, The Impact of Al Jazeera TV Channel on the Public Opin- ion of Palestinians in Palestine and Jordan with Particular Reference to the Promotion of Democracy , (PhD thesis, University of West London, 2009). See also, Marie Elizabeth Smith, U.S. Democracy Promotion and Al Jazeera: A View into Arab Reactions and Opposing Movements , (Master thesis, University of California, 2005). (4) Cecilia Bailliet, “Reinterpreting Human Rights through Global Media: A Case Study of Al Jazeera English”, Canadian Journal of Human Rights , Vol. 2, No. 1, (2013). (5) Ezzeddine Abdelmoula, Al Jazeera and Democratization: The Rise of the Arab Public Sphere (New York-London: Routledge, 2015). (6) Yasser Abdel Rahim, Imaging Identity: A Study of Al Jazeera’s Online News and its Repre- sentation of Arabness with Particular Attention to “Arabs in Diaspora” , (PhD Thesis, McGill University, 2009).
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