What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual
prism long championed by one of journalisms leading contemporary scholars. A former …

―If you want to free a society, just give them Internet access.‖ These were the words of 30-
year-old Egyptian activist Wael Ghonim in a CNN interview on February 9, 2011, just two …

Scholarship on journalism has long privileged a journalistic world that is narrower than that
which resides on the ground. Perhaps nowhere is this as much the case as with the …

There is no doubt that social media has played, and are still playing, a crucial role in the
calls for political change that have swept the Arab region. However, their role as catalysts for …

During the past 20 years, the Arab media environment has evolved dramatically. As recently
as the early 1990s, Arab publics were forced to depend on state-provided information and …

The Egyptian uprising of 2011 was characterized by the instrumental use of social media,
especially Facebook, as well as Twitter, YouTube and text messaging by protesters …

While the presence of religious content is rapidly increasing over digital media, the HCI
literature on digital media production has remained mostly limited by its focus on secular …

This article discusses the role of 'cyberactivism'or the role played by new media in paving
the way for political transformation, in both the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions of 2011. It …

The Internet and satellite TV have introduced substantial innovations in both the production
and the consumption of Islamic knowledge. The development of new infrastructures, skills …

I n May 2005, I was studying Arabic at the Language Institute of the Damascus University in
Syria. I stayed in the sūq sarūja area, a beautiful, shabby part of the Old City. Every morning …