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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical Development of the Arab Media | |
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| Overview of the development of the Arab media | |
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| The Arab media and Arab nationalism | |
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| Arab migrating media | |
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| Print media | |
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| Radio and television | |
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| Main hindrances to the development of the Arab media | |
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| Transnational media | |
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| Cultural implications of transnational Arab television | |
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| Historical development of satellite television in the Arab world | |
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| State media and satellite channels | |
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| History of the freedom of the press in the Arab world | |
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| Freedom of expression and the law | |
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| Freedom of expression and the economic landscape in the Arab world | |
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| The development of network communication in the Arab world | |
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| Accountability in journalism | |
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| Codes and regulations of the Arab media | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Globalisation, Democracy and the Arab Media | |
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| Definition of globalisation | |
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| Al-Jazeera English: a global discourse | |
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| Global media and the public sphere | |
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| The Arab media as a global practice | |
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| The active role of the public | |
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| The Arab media and national political systems | |
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| Al-Arabiya and the public sphere | |
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| The discourse of globalisation and the Arab media | |
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| Is the Arab media a global phenomenon? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra and Al-Arabiya: Different Channels or Three Sides of the Same Triangle? | |
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| Al-Jazeera | |
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| Al-Jazeera and objectivity | |
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| Al-Jazeera and the West | |
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| Al-Jazeera's programmes | |
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| The expansion of Al-Jazeera | |
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| Al-Jazeera and coverage of the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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| Al-Jazeera and the Arab audience | |
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| Al-Hurra and Radio Sawa | |
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| Al-Hurra's programmes | |
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| Al-Hurra and the 1994 International Broadcasting Act | |
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| Criticism of Al-Hurra | |
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| Al-Arabiya | |
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| Al-Arabiya's programmes | |
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| Similarities and differences between the three channels | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Arab Media and the Discourse of Conflict | |
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| Definition of discourse | |
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| What is critical analysis? | |
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| Why CDA and media discourse? | |
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| Who produces and consumes media texts? | |
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| Fairclough's framework | |
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| Content and representation in news reports | |
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| Discourse, representations and power | |
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| Representations in clauses or sentences | |
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| Method of the study | |
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| Representation of voices in the three channels | |
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| The selection of lexis | |
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| Naming and labelling | |
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| Passive v. active | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |