Middle East Media Research

Matar, Dina; Bessaiso, Ehab

doi:10.1002/9781118255278.ch12

The Handbook of Global Media Research 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781118255278.ch12

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Middle East Media Research

Dina Matar¹,

Ehab Bessaiso²

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“…2 This feeds into the narrative that the Iranian population, especially women, want to rejoin the 2 Media in the Middle East have often been viewed as drivers of unilinear modernisation. See D. Matar andE. Bessaiso 2012, also E. Gheytanchi 2015.…”

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Haunting juxtapositions: gender, Covid-19, and the conservative modern

Tafakori

2021

Feminist Media Studies

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Feminist scholarship on the Middle East has often critiqued binaristic framings of gender rights which draw on Western-centric tropes of cosmopolitan modernity versus local backwardness. What I argue, through examining visual mediations of Covid-19 on Iranian social media, is that gender is reconfigured in this context as part of a nationalism that is both modernising and conservative. I particularly focus on how montage -a modernist visual genre -is utilised in the production of an Iranian national security imaginary which combines a rhetoric of modern, mixed-gender medical care with haunting resonances of male martyrdom and sacrifice during the Iran-Iraq war. While much has been written recently about Covid and national security, what is less discussed is how particularistic narratives of crisis can produce innovative reconfigurations of gender and modernity. Yet while Benjamin envisaged montage as a weapon in the destruction of aura, here, I argue, the deployment of aura supports the state's 'capture' of haunting affects as it seeks to re-shape national memory. What this suggests is that crisis permits a conditional shifting of gender roles, but this move is legitimated through the invocation of a redemptive history, wherein the nation re-emerges triumphant out of disaster.

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Haunting juxtapositions: gender, Covid-19, and the conservative modern

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2021

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Media development in Syria: the Janus-faced nature of foreign aid assistance

Brownlee

2017

Third World Quarterly

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This article intends to provide responses to some of the many unanswered questions about the making and the transformation of the uprising in Syria by exploring a new avenue of research: media development aid. Most of the academic interest has been oriented towards the role that the new media played at the time of the uprising, insufficient interest, instead, has been directed to the development of the sector in the years predating it. What emerges from this article is that the Syrian media landscape was strongly supported by international development aid during the years prior the outbreak of the uprising of 2011. By looking at the complex structure of media aid architecture and investigating into the practices and programs implemented by some representative organisations, this article reflects on the field of media development as a new modus operandi of the West (EU and US especially), to promote democracy through alternative and non-collateral bottomup support.

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A Global Research Agenda for Children's Rights in the Digital Age

Livingstone

Bulger

2014

Journal of Children and Media

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Original citation:Livingstone, Sonia and Bulger , Monica E. (2014) A global research agenda for children's rights in the digital age. Journal of Children and Media, 8 (4 Biographical noteSonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She directs the EU Kids Online network of researchers examining children's online activities, risks and safety mediation in 33 countries. She is author or editor of 18 books on the subject of media audiences and children's media and digital activities.Dr. Monica Bulger is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University where she contributes policy research to multi-national groups such as UNICEF, ECPAT and the European Commission. Her recent work focuses on distinguishing risky internet use from actually harmful experiences and identifying the ways in which digital literacy can reduce harmful online experiences for young users globally. AbstractTaking the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a starting point for evidencebased policy regarding children's rights in the digital age, we offer a global research agenda designed to produce evidence of value for policy makers working to promote children's rights. Informed by research reviews and interviews with international stakeholders, four priorities for theory and evidence are identified: (i) the provision of opportunities that confer benefit, recognising that this may be defined diversely according to the cultural context, (ii) the protection of children from risk of harm, including understanding the relation between vulnerability and resilience, (iii) the balance between risk and opportunities, especially to allow for children's participation even in risky opportunities, (iv) the framing of the research agenda (in terms of concepts, design, measures, and priorities) and the evaluation of policies and initiatives in collaboration with researchers and practitioners from the global South.2

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Middle East Media Research

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Haunting juxtapositions: gender, Covid-19, and the conservative modern

Haunting juxtapositions: gender, Covid-19, and the conservative modern

Media development in Syria: the Janus-faced nature of foreign aid assistance

A Global Research Agenda for Children's Rights in the Digital Age

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