Changing Revolutions, Changing Attention? Comparing Danish Press Coverage of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Syria
The Arab Spring has generated unprecedented attention to the Arab world in Western news media. This paper presents a comparative study of Danish press coverage of the uprisings in Tunisia and Syria during the early months of the Arab Spring (January-March 2011). The study is based on a mixed quan...
| الحاوية / القاعدة: | Global Media Journal: German Edition |
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| التنسيق: | مقال |
| اللغة: | الألمانية |
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Berlin Universities Publishing
2012-05-01
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | http://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-25445/GMJ3_Fugl_final.pdf |
| الملخص: | The Arab Spring has generated unprecedented attention to the Arab world in Western
news media. This paper presents a comparative study of Danish press coverage of the uprisings in
Tunisia and Syria during the early months of the Arab Spring (January-March 2011). The study is
based on a mixed quantitative and qualitative content analysis aimed at identifying patterns of
news reporting of the Arab Spring. The investigation looks into whether temporal developments of
the Arab revolutions, the level of journalistic presence in the region, and national differences
influence Danish press coverage of the Arab Spring.
The findings indicate that media coverage of the Arab Spring points in different directions. On the
one hand there has been a remarkable increase in media attention to the Middle East in purely
quantitative terms. On the other hand the study finds that a number of traditional media patterns
persist, not least in relation to media perceptions of Islam and democracy, the Arab-Israeli conflict,
and the ability to reform the Arab world from the inside. |
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