Research Catalog

Title

Social media and the politics of reportage : the 'Arab Spring' / edited by Saba Bebawi and Diana Bossio.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description
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Additional Authors

• Bebawi, Saba, 1974-
• Bossio, Diana, 1980-

Description

xii, 141 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Social Media and the Politics of Reportage explores the role of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs, within the field of global journalism with a focus on the recent protests during the 'Arab Spring'. The book is timely as it deals with the transforming media landscape during crisis reporting as a result of the rise of social media news coverage and usage. Specifically, this book focuses on the journalistic challenges, issues and opportunities that have arisen as a result of social media increasingly being used as a form of crisis reporting. The 'Arab Spring' has been represented in the mainstream media as a 'social media revolution'; the hyperbole of headlines claims a seismic shift away from the traditional news correspondence and towards an era of citizen journalism and social media reporting.

Subjects

• Citizen journalism > Political aspects > Africa, North
• Syria > History > Civil War, 2011- > Mass media and the war
• Egypt > History > Protests, 2011- > Press coverage
• Online journalism > Political aspects > Arab countries
• Online journalism > Political aspects > Africa, North
• Social media > Political aspects > Africa, North
• Social media > Political aspects > Arab countries
• Libya > History > Civil War, 2011- > Mass media and the war
• Arab Spring, 2010-
• Citizen journalism > Political aspects > Arab countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Interactions and Challenges. Journalism during the Arab Spring: Interactions and Challenges / Diana Bossio -- The Context for Discussion of the Arab Spring Protests -- Interaction between Journalists and Activists During the Arab Spring -- Social Media Revolutions? -- The Interaction between Journalists and Activists During the Arab Spring -- The Arab Spring on Twitter: Language Communities in #egypt and #libya / Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield -- Al Jazeera English's Networked Journalism During the 2011 Egyptian Uprising / William Lafi Youmans -- Networked Journalism -- Al Jazeera English and Networked Journalism -- Political effects. Syrian activists in Russia: the Limits of Visibility in a Hostile Host Country / Mervi Pantti and Evgeniya Boklage -- Diaspora Activism as Personalised Civic Action -- Publicising the Protest: the Syrian diaspora as a key activist cluster -- Media Activism in the Syrian Diaspora in Russia -- Practices and Networks -- Online and Offline Mobilisation of Support -- High-risk Activism in Russia -- Twitter-ized Revolution: Extending the Governance Empire / Robert Imre and Stephen Owen -- The Revolution will (not) be Tweeted: Protests and Political Mobilisation in Iran -- Protests and Cyber-utopianism in the Ukraine: the Orange revolution -- Ukrainian and Iranian Protests and the Problematisation of Online Networks -- Predicting the Future. A Shift in Media Power: The Mediated Public Sphere During the "Arab Spring" / Saba Bebawi -- Centres of Power and the Public Sphere -- Institutional Journalists using Social Media -- Social Media using Institutional Media Reports -- Social Media as Independent Media -- A Power Shift?.

Call Number

JFD 16-1511

ISBN

• 9781137361394
• 1137361395

LCCN

2014024477

OCLC

881511067

Title

Social media and the politics of reportage : the 'Arab Spring' / edited by Saba Bebawi and Diana Bossio.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Table of contents only

Consulta en línea

Added Author

Bebawi, Saba, 1974- editor.

Bossio, Diana, 1980- editor.

Other Form:

ebook version 9781137361400

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1511