NEW BOOK from Peter Lang:
Al-Jazeera and US War Coverage
http://www.amazon.com/Al-Jazeera-War-Coverage-Tal-Samuel-Azran/dp/1433108658
(Peter Lang, 2010)
Dr. Tal Samuel-Azran
Since the eve of the war in Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera has become a global
household name and a news source that cannot be ignored. Globalization theorists
argue that Al-Jazeera promotes a cross-cultural debate, enforcing a
counter-hegemonic perspective on the West not evident in former crises. Through
a comprehensive empirical analysis covering the re-broadcasting of Al-Jazeeras
images on major U.S. television networks since 9/11, this book draws an
alternative picture, revealing that the advent of Al-Jazeera has actually eroded
the counter-hegemonic debate in U.S. war reporting. It shows how the U.S.
government persuaded television networks to systematically reformat legitimate
war images from Al-Jazeera, labeling it a deviant network, in order to eliminate
criticism of the war. Moreover, an examination of the U.S. reception by bloggers
and network carriers of Al-Jazeeras English-language website and channel reveals
the U.S. administrations continued resolve and ability to limit public
discourse.
*Praise*
Samuel-Azran's book provides a timely and necessary contribution to wider
debates about, and the theorization of, contemporary global news flows and how
new regional news players either help to pluralize and democratize the
traditional Western dominance of news and contribute to an emergent global news
sphere or, alternatively, become effectively co-opted and politically neutered
when ‘re-presented’ within and through the Western news prism…Going against the
grain of much current thinking in the field of international and global media
scholarship, Samuel-Azran argues that the spectacular rise of Al-Jazeera should
not be simply taken as evidence for an emergent and democratizing global public
sphere -
Professor Simon Cottle, Deputy Head of Media and Communications School and
Director of the Mediatized Conflict Research Group in the Cardiff School of
Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC).
Ever since its launch over a decade ago, Al-Jazeera has influenced broadcast
journalism globally and transformed the Arab television news sphere.
Its coverage of wars and conflicts in the region has earned the pan-Arabic news
network many admirers and a few powerful adversaries, as Tal Samuel-Azran’s book
ably demonstrates This is an empirically strong contribution to the literature
on the politics of global news.” —
Daya Thussu, Professor of International
Communication, University of Westminster, London; Editor, Global Media and
Comunication, Sage
A link to an article reviewing the book on Al-Jazeera Arabic:
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B051046-4BAF-4D77-B8EB-9A2A809FA6CD.htm
About the Author
Tal Samuel-Azran is a lecturer in the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the
Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlia, Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in media and
communications from the University of Melbourne and has published widely on
Al-Jazeera and media globalization. He has also served as a reporter for several
Israeli journals and newspapers. He recently co-edited the book New Media and
Innovative Technologies (2008).
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