<p>Författare: Magnus Gustafsson Niclas Hagel</p><p>Handledare: Thomas Knoll</p><p>Examinator: Martin Danielsson</p><p>Titel: Al-Jazeera och CNN - En jämförande fallstudie i krigsjournalistik</p><p>Typ av rapport: C - uppsats</p><p>Ämne: Medie- och Kommunikationsvetenskap</p><p>År: Höstterminen 2008</p><p>Sektion: Sektionen för Hälsa och Samhälle</p><p>Syfte: Vårt syfte är att studera och jämföra al-Jazeeras och CNN:s</p><p>bevakning av en händelse i Afghanistankonflikten för att kunna</p><p>redogöra för eventuella skillnader. Vi vill se hur olika faktorer</p><p>påverkar journalistiken. En analys ur ett genusperspektiv</p><p>kommer också att göras.</p><p>Metod: Fallstudie har tillämpats som huvudsaklig metod och vid analys</p><p>av material har innehållsanalys och kritisk diskursanalys använts.</p><p>Slutsatser: Efter att ha jämfört de två nyhetskanalerna kan vi tydligt se att</p><p>det finns stora skillnader i rapporteringen av ett amerikanskt</p><p>flyganfall mot en afghansk by. CNN som amerikansk</p><p>nyhetskanal visar att deras rapportering påverkas av det</p><p>amerikanska medieklimatet där en neutral krigsrapportering kan</p><p>ses som stötande och journalister ständigt utsätts för</p><p>påtryckningar. Ur ett genusperspektiv ser vi dock tydliga</p><p>likheter mellan kanalerna.</p>

Författare: Magnus Gustafsson Niclas Hagel Handledare: Thomas Knoll Examinator: Martin Danielsson Titel: Al-Jazeera och CNN - En jämförande fallstudie i krigsjournalistik Typ av rapport: C - uppsats Ämne: Medie- och Kommunikationsvetenskap År: Höstterminen 2008 Sektion: Sektionen för Hälsa och Samhälle Syfte: Vårt syfte är att studera och jämföra al-Jazeeras och CNN:s bevakning av en händelse i Afghanistankonflikten för att kunna redogöra för eventuella skillnader. Vi vill se hur olika faktorer påverkar journalistiken. En analys ur ett genusperspektiv kommer också att göras. Metod: Fallstudie har tillämpats som huvudsaklig metod och vid analys av material har innehållsanalys och kritisk diskursanalys använts. Slutsatser: Efter att ha jämfört de två nyhetskanalerna kan vi tydligt se att det finns stora skillnader i rapporteringen av ett amerikanskt flyganfall mot en afghansk by. CNN som amerikansk nyhetskanal visar att deras rapportering påverkas av det amerikanska medieklimatet där en neutral krigsrapportering kan ses som stötande och journalister ständigt utsätts för påtryckningar. Ur ett genusperspektiv ser vi dock tydliga likheter mellan kanalerna.

Twitter is an online social networking service which functions as an information sharing medium, hence it is perfect for media to convey pieces of news. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Al Jazeera English (AJE) are two international news channels that actively use Twitter to share their news stories. Previous investigations have found that depending on the news story, the BBC and AJE convey their pieces of news slightly differently. This study aims to give an analysis of the textual content in these two news channel’s text messages (tweets) on Twitter to see if there are linguistic variations. The tweets were analysed in terms of tone, word choice and information richness. Tweets where the words Syria and kill occurred were chosen for a more thorough analysis, and the results show that the BBC had a slightly more negative tone, provided more detailed news reports and used a more informative language than AJE. It might be that the findings were a result of chance considering the fact that the collection of tweets analysed was rather small and differed in size. Nevertheless, the differences that were revealed by the study were of an apparent nature and occurred too frequently and consistently in this small material to be discarded as merely incidental.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

More than sixteen years have passed since the launch of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel. Looking back, the state of Arab media and its relationship with the political sphere was different from what we see nowadays. The launch of Al Jazeera in 1996 was a significant event that led to subsequent changes both in the media and politics. Among these changes, the Arab spring, which started in Tunisia in December 2010, is certainly the most remarkable one. This ongoing event has already resulted in the fall of four dictatorships and is expected to unleash a democratization wave and reshape the face of the Arab region. This research analyzes the Al Jazeera democratizing effect and looks at the political implications of the new Arab public sphere. In doing so, it seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature, which tends to ignore the Arab world that remains largely under-researched. Contrary to the top-down approach inherent in the dominant narratives on democratization, that pay almost no attention to the growing role of the media in political change, I adopted a bottom-up approach arguing that, particularly in the Arab setting, it has become almost impossible to separate changes in the media landscape from those in the political field. The Arab spring provides us with a telling empirical example where this interplay is remarkably manifest. In this context, Arab democratization is no longer an abstract; it is rather a developing process that needs our attention and requires concerted scholarly efforts. To develop an original approach to understanding Arab democratization and analyze its complex dynamics, I used grounded theory and its powerful tools in theory building. Based on this theoretical framework I opted for qualitative methodology to elaborate the empirical part of this research, which consists primarily of analyzing and interpreting in-depth interviews conducted with a sample of Al Jazeera’s staff in various managerial and editorial positions.

Al-Jazeera asserted itself in the global media scene shortly after the attacks of September 11th, 2001 in the United States. The station's regional prominence had already been entrenched in the new Arab media environment before it was overshadowed by the station's newfound global fame. Subsequently, al-Jazeera was considered an Arab media ambassador and the "voice of the Arab world." This dissertation provides an analysis of al-Jazeera's programming in Arabic that is lacking in the burgeoning English language academic literature. The dissertation furthermore highlights the way treatment of global current affairs informs a sense of Arab identification on a regional level. Moreover, it argues that, apart from competitive broadcast journalists, al-Jazeera offers an oppositional discourse of identification that does not necessarily challenge the hegemony of Western media discourses. By employing an oppositional stance expressed in typical anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist terms, it constructs an overarching notion of "Arabness" that is predominately discursive. / The dissertation analyzes three live talk shows: al-Ittijah al-Mu'akis (The Opposite Direction), Bila Hudoud (Without Boundaries), and Li-Nisa' Faqat (For Women Only). These talk shows are ideal sites for examining this oppositional discourse because they constitute important forums in which perceptions of identity are cultivated in the discussion of current affairs. In my analysis, each episode is treated as a media "text" that contributes to the formation of a discourse of "Arabness." The objective of the analysis is to identify the recurrent discursive patterns and strategies in providing the basis for this discursive category of identification across Arab state borders. In constructing an oppositional discourse, the United States and Israel are employed as necessary rhetorical references; Islam is infused into "Arabness" as a homogenizing constituent in identity formation; and finally, a culturally-threatened "Arabness" converges upon a context in which the world is marked by globalization. The dissertation concludes by indicating that al-Jazeera offers merely a representation of "Arabness" that, despite its power to influence, remains one way of perceiving Arab identity.

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Thesis (M.S. in Systems Technology (Command, Control, And Communications))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007. / "June 2007." AD-A470 029. Title from title page of PDF document (viewed on: Nov. 15, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-75).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Critical discourse analysis investigates the ways in which discourse is to abuse power relationships. Political debates constitute discourses that mirror certain aspects of ideologies. This study aimed to uncover the ideological intentions in the formulation and circulation of hegemonic political ideology in TV political debates that occurred in the 2011-2012 Yemen revolution, examining the question of how ideology was used as a tool of hegemony. The corpus of the study consisted of fifteen debates (73915 words) from four live debate programmes (The Opposite Direction, In Depth, Behind the News and the Revolution Talk) staged at Al Jazeera Arabic TV channel between 2011 and 2012. Al Jazeera was selected as the focus of this study because of its position as the most popular TV in the Arab world and due to its strong presence during the Arab revolutions. Two debate sides were identified: government, representing the president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his regime, and protesters, who represented the discontent populace gathering squares who demanded the abdication of the president. Data were also obtained from interviews conducted with the Al Jazeera staff who managed the debates. Analysis was conducted on the verbal discourse aspects of four debates, one debate from each programme, using critical discourse analysis: aspects from the van Leeuwen's (2008, 2009) Social Actor Network model, supplemented by additional linguistic features. The results were triangulated using computer-assisted corpus analysis for the entire corpus, the fifteen debates. AntConc (version 3.2.4w) was used to process the keyword lists, word concordances and collocations. The results of the analysis were then compared with the interviews with AJ staff. The main research finding was that although results of the critical discourse analysis correlated with those of the computer-assisted corpus analysis, they differed to a marked degree from the perceptions of Al Jazeera staff. Also, evident is that Al Jazeera and the protesters had similar ideological intentions, including glorifying the revolution and inciting protests, which was not the case with the government speakers. Overall, the findings show that Al Jazeera displayed evident bias, excluding the government from its debates in a way that runs counter to its mission statement and the tenets of objective journalism. The findings of this study illustrate the powerful role that language plays in shaping ideological media intentions and influencing the media audience.