Al-Jazeera Channel Research Articles

THE ROLE OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS AT AL JAZEERA T.V CHANNEL IN PROVIDING JORDANIAN POLITICAL ELITES WITH KNOWLEDGE/ A SURVEY STUDY

The study aimed to identify the role of documentary films on Al-Jazeera channel in providing Jordanian political elites with knowledge, and to identify the effects resulting from exposure of the study sample to documentary films on Al-Jazeera channel by conducting a field study based on the survey method on a sample of (300) participants using the random sampling method. The sample was distributed among the Jordanian political elites: (MPs, senators , party leaders, political science professors, workers in the diplomatic corps). The study revealed that (63.7%) of the study sample are exposed to documentaries on AlJazeera channel, and the degree of dependence of Jordanian political elites who object to documentary films on Al-Jazeera is medium with a rate of (50.3%), while the degree of their confidence in the information provided by documentary films is high, at a rate of (54.5) %), And the results of the study showed that the most important reasons for Jordanian political elites displaying documentaries on Al-Jazeera are: following up on the epidemic trade file about the emerging corona virus and controversy over the possibility of its manufacture, then “following up the file of human rights violations and issues of opinion-holders in the prisons of Arab regimes, then“ follow-up ” The file of the military coups, "Identifying the scenes of the conflict in Libya". The most prominent effects resulting from the exposure of the study sample to these films came as follows: Cognitive effects, most notably “documentary films contributed to uncovering ambiguous details in the case of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” and then the emotional effects, most notably the documentary films that dealt with some sensitive issues in creating of our feelings of sympathy and solidarity with the affected parties, "then the behavioral influences, the most prominent of which was" invited my colleagues to watch documentaries because of the important information they provide.

Islamophobia and the media are the determinants of the Arab media's coverage of the phenomenon in the social media era

This study seeks to identify the methods and methods of covering Islamophobia by Arab news channels، and that was set in the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel and alaraby television channel That broadcasts from England. This choice comes because they are affiliated to a television news complex that has huge (financial and human) capabilities that make them broadcast on a large scale. Therefore, we aim in this study to discover the most prominent determinants and foundations of coverage of the phenomenon of Islamophobia in an era in which social networking sites exploded and became a major driver in many issues, and the religious media was absent from the agenda of the traditional media.

Employing social media sites in producing Television News programs

The study aimed to confirm and highlight the importance of employing social media sites in news programs ,identify social media sites technologies and the extent of their reflection on news programs, to determine the use of social media sites and the extent to which they are used in Nashratcom program on Al-Jazeera channel.
 The problem raised by this research paper is in the following question: What is the extent of employing social media sites in the production of news programs and the extent of their credibility and impact on the recipient? The researchers used the descriptive and analytical method, the content analysis tool, the observation, the interview, and the questionnaire to collect information and data related to the study, and to divide and analyze the data. The sample of the study was Purposive Sample of experts in the professional and academic field, and the study concluded with several results, the most important of which are: The episodes of the Nashratcom program are uploaded on a daily basis to the websites of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Sending news and events to the program via social media sites Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Nashratcom program was able to communicate the voice of the citizen through social media sites., and the researchers recommend to verify the authenticity of news and events on social networking sites before they are broad casted and published.

Al-Jazeera’s Talk Shows Treatment of the Saudi Journalist. Jamal Khashoggi’s Case

This paper attempts to evaluate Al-Jazeera Arabic Channel talk shows’ treatment of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s case by posing two main questions: the first deals with the amount of coverage granted to this issue. One of the research hypotheses arises here, namely that the coverage was remarkably intense, which may be explained by Al-Jazeera’s dedicated position on the issue. This is explored in this paper through analysis of content and by interviewing the director of news at Al-Jazeera channel, Asif al-Humaidi, and by surveying previous studies that have linked Al-Jazeera’s previous positions to Qatar’s official stand, particularly that the Khashoggi incident took place in the midst of the Qatari-Saudi political crisis. The research samples include four talk shows: “Without Borders,” “Beyond the News,” “Rest of the Story” and “Scenarios,” over the course of a month since Khashoggi’s disappearance. The analysis shows that Khashoggi’s case received 93% of the total coverage of the four programs during the monitoring period.
 The second question deals with several items in the professionalism category, in terms of balancing time granted to the guests, and the degree of objectivity shown by the presenters during the dialogue. It was found that the rate of the presenters’ interventions during guests’ presentation was 57%, in addition to temptations utilized during the dialogues. Another question arises regarding the extent of hate speech in these talk shows, which amounts to 69.4%, by analyzing several items, most notably emotional mobilization, which rated 40.7%.

Impoliteness in reader comments on the Al-Jazeera channel news website

AbstractMany internet users actively participate and share their views using social networks. Their behavior is sometimes unpredictable; it could be polite or impolite. This study aims to investigate impoliteness in the comment section of the Al-Jazeera Arabic news website to uncover the types of impolite acts which commenters engage in online, and expose conventionalized and non-conventionalized impoliteness triggers. It also seeks to explore the influence of computer-mediated contextual factors, such as anonymity and synchronicity on impoliteness. The study adopts Neurauter-Kessels’ framework (2011) to identify the types of face attacks and Culpeper’s bottom-up model (2011, 2016) of impoliteness triggers to classify impolite acts. The analysis shows that commenters engage in FTAs that are targeting the writers. The most frequent attack is the lack of balance, wholeness, fairness, and objectivity and the least frequent is being out of touch or having a lack of interaction with the audience. Commenters also employ both conventionalized and non-conventionalized impoliteness formulas in their face-attacks. Findings indicate that there are some distinctive features of Arabic impoliteness discourse, such as the use of colloquialisms, proverbs and idioms, religious expressions and interjections. The analysis also reveals that anonymity and asynchronicity are significant in accounting for the manifestation of impoliteness.

Impoliteness in Arab Talk Shows: A case studyof Insult in The Opposite Direction

This study aims at analyzing impoliteness as a sign of impoliteness in Arab television political talk shows. Two episodesof the Opposite Direction, a famous talk show broadcast on Al-Jazeera Channel, have been selected. Culpeper''''''''''''''''s (2011) model for analyzing impoliteness is used.Hamed (2014:218) argues that Arabs use positive impoliteness strategies (i.e.seek disagreement and sarcasm or mock) which aim to damage the positive face of the addressee. But impoliteness can have other manifestations than the ones that are stated by Hamed. The study revealed that there are many instances of insult in the episodes covering all the categories of insult in the model, and this reflects impoliteness in interaction. This study is concerned with linguistic ''''''''''''''''politeness'''''''''''''''' and ''''''''''''''''impoliteness'''''''''''''''' as technical pragmatic terms. Politeness and impoliteness phenomena are intersecting and strongly related phenomena in contemporary pragmatic, however, politeness is more popular and more extensively studied than impoliteness. In addition, impoliteness can not be studied without referring to the literature of politeness as a starting point to understand and study impoliteness.

Interruptions of Men and Women in Selected Debates of Al-Jazeera Arabic Channel: A Pragmatic Analysis of the Opposite Direction

The present study aims to explore the gender patterns during interruptions in the context of political television discussions in the Arab community. Five mixed-sex episodes of the well-known program “The Opposite Direction” presented on Al-Jazeera Channel were examined. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were carried out to determine, which gender did more interruptions than the other. The study has considered each gender to use verbal and non-verbal statements to express that they were doing interruptions or that they were being interrupted. The results showed that women interrupted more than did men. Moreover, it has also been shown that men reacted in a more severe and aggressive way, when they were interrupted by women.

The Retreat of The Promotion For Human Rights and Free Speech In The Political Discourse of President Trump: A Comparison with Al-Jazeera’s Rhetoric 2017-2018

The aim of this academic article is firstly to survey and assessthe retreat and negligence of human rights and free speech in the American arena with special reference to the speeches, tweets and official statements of the American President Trump; and secondly to compare such discourse to the one produced by Al-Jazeera channel on the same issues, highlighting dynamics and differences between both. In so doing, and by applying the qualitative content analysis (QCA), the article puts forth two different readings for the perceptions of human rights and free speech discourses produced by both sides, and sheds light on the manifestations and implications of both rhetoric.

Assessing public sentiments and news preferences on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya

This article investigates the online comments made by Arab Facebook users on news items posted on the Facebook pages of two very popular TV channels: Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Arabiya. This study employs different methods to closely examine over 620,000 comments posted on the two Facebook pages as well as studying the most commented on news stories from a total of 11,685 news reports. The results indicate that commentators expressed some dominant sentiments that are mostly in line with the TV channels’ coverage of certain events, while certain news topics attracted most of the online public’s comments especially on Al Jazeera channel.

Book Review: Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World’s Most Wanted Man by Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait, eds

Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man. Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait, eds. Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 259 pp. $95 hbk. $30 pbk.Edited by Susan Jeffords, a professor at the University of Washington, and Fahed Al-Sumait, an assistant professor at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait, Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man interrogates global media representations of Osama bin Laden-the most-wanted figure in the war against terror. The editors provide two grounds to justify why the book focuses on bin Laden's depictions in the global media: (a) media is instrumental in the war against terror, and (b) global audiences heavily rely on the media for terrorism-related information.Importantly, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach by drawing conversation from various fields-for example, political science, media studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature. This, as the editors point out, encourages readers to consider the complexity of debates surrounding bin Laden's role in terrorism. Three things make the release of the book timely: First, it is published at a time when terrorism is pervasive in human life. Second, the volume comes following the killing of bin Laden-a timely thing to excite readers. Third, bin Laden's name is synonymous with terrorism. This last point is the volume's central strand-bin Laden's representations as seen through the prism of global media.The 259-page book is divided into three parts, in addition to introduction and epilogue. The introduction captures the book's broader theme-the symbiotic relationship between the media and terrorism-putting into sharp focus the role of media in the war against terror. This theme is echoed in the epilogue.Part I has three chapters that focus on defining political actors. Essays in this section underscore the reasoning that there is no knowable narrative about bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and terrorism. Taking this cue, in his chapter, Richard Jackson argues that bin Laden's death is meaningless because since his demise counterterrorism programs haven't been reduced. Supporting this surprising observation, Richard asks hard questions: Does it signal the destruction of Al-Qaeda? Does it mean the War on Terror has been won? Does it represent the administration of justice for the 9/11 victims? Chapter 2 by Aditi Bhatia conceptualizes the global war of terrorism from a rhetorical perspective-a metaphorical contest between bin Laden and George W. Bush. To analyze the rhetorical battles, Bhatia uses binary opposition: good versus bad, civilization versus barbarism, and moral justice versus retribution. Andrew Hill's chapter scrutinizes bin Laden's video and audio appearances after the 9/11 attacks.Chapters 4 through 7 in Part II mirror bin Laden's framing in the global news media. Courtney Radsch's essay explores the symbiotic relationship between bin Laden and Al-Jazeera channel. …

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ملخص عربى : هدفت الدراسة تعرف تأثير الدعاية السياسية على متابعي قناتي الجزيرة والـبي بي سي من وجهة نظر طلبة کليات الإعلام. بالإضافة إلى الکشف عما إذا کان هناک فروق إحصائية عند مستوى (α=0.05) بين متوسط اجابات طلبة کليات الإعلام في جامعتي اليرموک والزرقاء، نحو تأثير الدعاية السياسية في قناتي قناتي الجزيرة و الـبي بي سي، تعزى لمتغيرات الدراسة (الجنس، السنة الدراسية)، وتکونت عينة الدراسة من طلبة کليات الإعلام والبالغ عددهم (150)، واستخدم الباحث المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، وتوصل من خلاله إلى النتائج الآتية:1- ما تأثير الدعاية السياسية لقناة الجزيرة أتى أکبر من تأثير الدعاية السياسية لقناة الــبي بي سي من وجهة نظر طلبة کليات الإعلام.2- لا توجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية عند مستوى (α=0.05) بين متوسط اجابات طلبة کليات الإعلام في جامعتي اليرموک والزرقاء، نحو تأثير الدعاية السياسية في قناتي الجزيرة و الـبي بي سي، تعزى لمتغير الجنس.3- توجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية عند مستوى الدلالة(α=0.05) بين متوسط اجابات طلبة کليات الإعلام في جامعتي اليرموک والزرقاء، نحو تأثير الدعاية السياسية في قناتي الجزيرة والـبي بي سي، تعزى لمتغير السنة الدراسية.وبناء على البيانات والنتائج التي أسفرت عنها الدراسة النظرية والميدانية، فإن الباحث أوصى بالآتي:التعرف إلى آليات عمل کل من قناتي الجزيرة والـبي بي سي لبث الدعاية السياسية والطرق المستخدمة في ذلک. وضرورة أستقلال البرامج عن أفکار حکوماتها، وإيجاد الکادر الفني والإداري المناسب لتلک البرامج. إضافة إلى العمل تأسيس فضائية عربية متخصصة، مستقلة و بمصادر تمويل من جهات عربية ذات نوازع محايدة تؤکد على الخطاب العربي الغير خاضع للايديولوجيات السياسية والدينية والاجتماعية المتخلفة وبکادر تخصصي سواء الإداري أو الإعدادي أو الفني. ملخص انجليزى : This Study aimed to identify the effect of political propaganda on those who watch Al-Jazeera and the BBC from the viewpoint of the students at Media Colleges. In addition to detect whether there was statistical differences at (α = 0.05) between the average answers of the students at Media Colleges at the Universities of Yarmouk and Zarqa, about the impact of the political propaganda of Al Jazeera and the BBC, due to the variables of the study (sex, Academic year), The study sample consisted of (150) students from the faculties of the Media. The descriptive analytical method was used. The research concludes with the following results:1. The effect of the political propaganda for Al-Jazeera Channel is greater than this of the BBC channel from the viewpoint of the students of Media Colleges.2. There were no statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) between the average answers of the students at Media colleges at the Universities of Yarmouk and Zarqa, about the impact of political propaganda in Al Jazeera and the BBC Channels, due to the variable of sex.3. There are statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) between the average answers of the student at Media Colleges at the Universities of Yarmouk and Zarqa, about the impact of the political propaganda in Al Jazeera and the BBC Channels, due to the academic year.Based on the data and the results of the theoretical and empirical study, the researcher recommended the following:Recognizing the work mechanisms for both of Al Jazeera and the BBC channels and how they broadcast the political propaganda and the methods used in those mechanisms. The researcher also assures the need for the independence of programs from the ideas of their governments, with providing the appropriate technical and administrative staff for those programs. In addition to working on establishing an Arab specialized satellite Channel, which is independent and with neutral financing sources of desires from Arab parties that assures the Arab discourse which is not subject to the backward political, religious or social ideologies with a specialist staff on the administrative, preparatory and technical levels.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Impolite Interruptions of Selected Debates in the Opposite Direction of Al-Jazeera Channel

The present paper draws a conversational sketch of impoliteness strategies as employed by interlocutors in the Opposite Direction presented by Al-Jazeera satellite channel. In the heat of discussion, interlocutors resort to certain aggressive strategies to attack each other's face in an attempt to get the floor and instigate the other interviewee to react in a more offensive manner. This situation is usually triggered and intensified by the interviewer who is supposed to be neutral and works into managing the interview. The more offensive the debate is, the more interested the viewers will be. The study collates a corpus consisting of one translated episode into English [25] of the ‘Opposite Direction’ covering the topic of ‘The Clash of Civilization and the Class of Religions’ in which the interviewer Faisal Qasim (FQ), a famous journalist on Al-Jazeera Channel invites Wafa Sultan (WS), a writer and a researcher in Los Angles and Ibrahim Al-Khouli (IK), a lecturer at Al-Azher University. The paper adopts Culpeper's Model of impoliteness (1996) in the analysis of impoliteness instances in the selected corpus. Results show that the most common strategies of impoliteness interruptions employed by interlocutors include bold on record impoliteness, mock impoliteness, negative impoliteness, ignorance, showing disinterest and unconcern, using imperatives and direct sarcastic questions that do not seek answers, accusations and ridiculing and using profane language. They also show that the interviewer (FQ) has played a role in instigating the interviewees to resort to impolite interruptions.

A Proposed Strategic Alliance between the Qatar Foudation and the Al-Jazeera Channel to Face the Challenges of the 21st Century

A Proposed Strategic Alliance between the Qatar Foudation and the Al-Jazeera Channel to Face the Challenges of the 21st Century

Courting, Criticism, Censorship and Bombs

Abstract On the eve of the conflict in Iraq, the US administration tried to re-establish more friendly relations with the Arab media. This article reviews American public diplomacy and communications strategies towards the Arab satellite networks, with particular emphasis on the Qatar-based al-Jazeera Channel, and considers the degree to which American strategies succeeded. The American experiences with al-Jazeera during the war in Iraq were similar to their experiences during the war in Afghanistan. The main finding is that the US administration lacks a comprehensive communications strategy towards al-Jazeera: In both conflicts the US administration started by courting the channel, giving exclusive interviews and participating in debates, but when war started friendly relations came to an end. When al-Jazeera focused on the ugly face of both wars, the American administration reacted with criticism, threats and attempts to silence the channel.