Covering the Arab Spring in Global Media Journal (DE)

20-05-2012

New edition of Global Media Journal (DE).

The special issue focuses on « Covering the Arab Spring : Middle East in the Media – the Media in the Middle East« . Guest editors : Riem Spielhaus and
Ehab Galal (University of Copenhagen).

Featured articles include :

– Edward Webb : Holding Back The Flood : Regimes of Censorship in the Middle East&  North Africa in Comparative Perspective

– Amr Osman&  Marwa Abdel Samei : The Media and the Making of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

– Lorenzo Trombetta : Altering Courses in unknown Waters : Interaction between Traditional and New Media during the First Months of the Syrian
Uprising

– Zvi Bar´el : Reshaping the Hegemony : State-Owned Media in Egypt after the Revolution Covering The Arab Spring beyond the Middle East

– Massimo Di Ricco : The Arab Spring is a Latin American Winter : TeleSUR’s « Ideological Approach » and the Breakaway from the Al-Jazeera
Network

– Mikkel Fugl Eskjær : Changing Revolutions, Changing Attention ? – Comparing Danish Press Coverage of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Syria

– Hanne Jørndrup : Journalism’s Rewriting of History in Reporting the Arab Spring

Book Reviews

– Iren Schulz – Corinna Peil : Mobilkommunikation in Japan. Zur kulturellen Infrastruktur der Handy-Aneignung (2011)

– Ursula Götz – Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan (Hrsg.) : Journalism after September 11.  (2011)