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Arab Media & Society now at www.arabmediasociety.com
The Center
for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo
and the Centre for Middle East Studies, St. Antony’s College,
Oxford, are pleased to announce the launch of their new electronic
journal Arab Media & Society at www.arabmediasociety.com
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The online
publication is the successor to the highly-regarded Transnational
Broadcasting Studies (www.tbsjournal.com), which has been covering
satellite broadcasting in the Middle East and broader Muslim
world for the past decade.
The move is recognition of the changing nature of the Arab media
and social landscape.
"When
TBS Journal was founded two years after the launch of Al Jazeera,
satellite TV was the story. Newspapers were moribund. Internet
penetration was negligible. Media deregulation was an alien
concept,” publisher and co-editor Lawrence Pintak writes
in the first issue. “The impact of the pan-Arab satellite
revolution is today felt at every level of Arab society –
and in every form of media.”
The journal
will publish quarterly with frequent updates of timely articles
from scholars, researchers and journalists.
“The
Arab media scene and Arab society as a whole are changing rapidly.
The shift from a combination of print and online to a pure online
approach means we are able to offer thoughtful insights into
developments as they occur, produce more frequent thematic issues,
and include a mix of interactive features,” Pintak said.
For example,
the first issue includes:
- A package
of six stories on blogging in the Arab world, led by an article
from Marc Lynch of Williams College, accompanied by an interview
with two Egyptian bloggers in a streamable audio format
- A set
of articles on last summer’s Lebanon war, including
a piece on women war correspondents by Magda Abu-Fadil and
an article by Paul Cochrane on how Hizbullah’s al-Manar
managed to stay on the air
- Print
interviews with the head of the BBC’s new Arabic news
channel and a Tunisian online magazine editor, along with
an audio interview with Daoud Kuttab, who is pioneering community
radio in the Arab world
- A piece
on the fate of US government broadcasting by former official
of VOA Alan Heil
- Interactive
book reviews that invite reader comment and debate
- And
much more
The site
also contains real-time summaries of the Arab media, resources
such as major reports on the development of Arab media, and
links to a variety of other interesting content.
For further information, contact Managing Editor George Weyman
at ams@aucegypt.edu.
For
more information, contact:
George Weyman
- Managing Editor Arab Media and Society
The Adham Center for Television Journalism
The American University in Cairo
113 Kasr el Aini St., PO Box 2511
11511 Cairo, Egypt
Phone: (20-2)
797-5422/3/4
Fax: (20-2) 795-7565
E-mail: ams@aucegypt.edu
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