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Tag Archives: Middle East
Mar 29 2012
Revolutionary citizens become better journalists (new LSE research)
Leave a commentThis report by LSE’s Max Hanska-Ahy on his work with Roxanna Shapour on media and the Arab Spring. We know that ‘ordinary people’ played an important role in reporting the recent protests that cascaded across the Middle East and North … Continue reading
Posted by: March 29, 2012
Tagged with: Arab Spring, LSE, Max Hanska-Ahy, Middle East, politics, Research, social media
Mar 27 2012
Reporting Revolutions: Don’t Forget The Aftermath (Guest blog) #Polis12
Leave a commentThis report by Polis intern Barbara Feeney on our Reporting Revolutions panel discussion at the Polis Journalism Conference chaired by Richard Sambrook of Cardiff University with BBC’s Lyse Doucet, Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News (who has a new book, … Continue reading
Posted by: March 27, 2012
Tagged with: Arab Spring, BBC, Chanel 4 News, conflict, Foreign Reporting, guest blogs, International, ITN, Libya, Lindsey Hilsum, Lyse Doucet, Middle East, Revolutions, Syria, Times, Tom Coghlan, War reporting
Mar 21 2012
Reporting The World: Polis Journalism Conference 2012: link to video
2 CommentsThanks to everyone who came – thanks to everyone who spoke – thanks to the LSE staff and Polis interns who made it run so smoothly. You can access videos of most of the sessions here. Internal Reports: Polis Intern … Continue reading
Posted by: March 21, 2012
Tagged with: 2012, arab, Conference, events, International, Middle East, Polis, politics, protest, Revolutions, Schedule, social media, Speakers
Dec 12 2011
Tunisia’s Media Spring?: New Research Project
Leave a commentPolis Visiting Research Fellow Fatima el Issawi is just back from her first field investigation in Tunisia, trying to understand how Arab media is coping with the transitional political phase and how Arab journalists are redefining their identity and role. … Continue reading
Posted by: December 12, 2011
Tagged with: arab, Democracy, deveopment, guest blog, Middle East, politics, Revolution, social media, Tunisia
Nov 1 2011
In to the grey zone: Arab spring as information revolution? (guest blog)
1 CommentThis article by Polis Intern Terrine Friday is a response to the Polis Media Agenda Talk on media in the Middle East. These are every Tuesday this month. You may have already seen the now-famous photographs from Reuters … Continue reading
Posted by: November 1, 2011
Tagged with: Arab Spring, guest blog, Middle East, social media, twitter
Sep 16 2011
Social media – why it’s useless for democratic politics
4 CommentsI spend a lot of time writing about the political potential of new forms of journalism. Though I like to think that my analysis of social media and the Arab uprisings of 2011 was cyber-realist rather than utopian. Our report … Continue reading
Posted by: September 16, 2011
Tagged with: Arab Spring, Democracy, Middle East, politics, social media
Jun 15 2011
Periodismo, redes y la nueva política interconectada
Leave a commentFor Spanish readers here is the beginning of an article I wrote on the new networked political journalism for Estudios de Politica Exterior. You can download the article here as a pdf Internet y la telefonía móvil han dotado a … Continue reading
Posted by: June 15, 2011
Tagged with: Democracy, International journalism, Media Policy, Middle East, Networked journalism, new media, online news, Political Communications, Reporting politics, social media
May 18 2011
Wael Ghonim: the accidental revolutionary (Google #bigtentuk debate)
Leave a commentWael Ghonim (Google exec and Egyptian Internet activist) made an interesting point about his role in Egypt’s revolution at Google’s #bigtentuk conference. It was accidental.
Posted by: May 18, 2011
Tagged with: Blogging, Citizen journalism, Democracy, Facebook, Middle East, Political Communications, social media, twitter
May 16 2011
Social media and democratic governance: the next decade (Wilton Park paper)
1 CommentThese are the notes for a presentation I gave as part of the Wilton Park conference on ‘media, social media and democratic governance’. This has been an extraordinary period for news and also for the way that news is created … Continue reading
Posted by: May 16, 2011
Tagged with: Africa, Democracy, Development, Freedom of expression, governance and journalism, media law, media literacy, Media Policy, Middle East, Polis research, Political Communications
May 13 2011
Today we are all Osama: Jihadists’ reaction to Bin Laden’s death (guest blog)
Leave a commentOne of Al Qaeda’s most potent tools is the Internet. It acts as a communication and recruitment platform for the loose network of ’jihadist’ activists and their supporters around the world. Mina Al-Lami is a research fellow at the LSE … Continue reading
Posted by: May 13, 2011
Tagged with: Jihad, Jihadist, Middle East, Osama Bin Laden, Terror
