Al Jazeera English: An Alternative News Voice

ISBN-13: 9783844386912 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str.

Tairah Firdous

Opis

Media coverage of international conflicts has always captivated students of communication, and the Israel-Palestine conflict is one among many such international conflicts that has attracted substantial academic research. Several scholars have conducted studies of this conflict and how it has been framed in different media outlets all around the world. This study adds to the existing research about media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict by investigating whether Al Jazeera English presented a non-Western viewpoint during the crisis. The study uses a content analysis to examine CNN s and Al Jazeera English s news coverage of the Gaza crisis (December28-Jan.19, 2009), and the results indicate that there are indeed differences in how the two networks framed the Gaza Crisis.

O autorze

Tairah Firdous is a film maker/journalist from Kashmir.She is also a Ford Fellow and pursued her graduate studies at East West Center,USA. Her film, Between Terror TV and Alternative Voice: Al Jazeera Speaks, was screened at New York International Film Festival and Al Jazeera Film Festival. She is recipient of 2010 Yayori Journalism Award(Japan).