Use of sports media to crack down on the 2011 Bahraini uprising

Rabea, Ali

doi:10.1080/17430437.2018.1445994

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“…This paper builds on an earlier study (Rabea, 2018) that examined the use of images, crawler, background and music of two sports television programmes to empower the Bahraini regime to crack down on the uprising. This paper, however, focused on the use of language in print sports journalism (where visual content did not play a noticeable role in the coverage).…”

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“…However, the Bahraini sports newspapers’ coverage of the uprising has been overlooked perhaps because newspapers are only distributed locally. Rabea's (2018) study of the television coverage of the 2011 uprising argued that Bahrain Sports Channel was used to name and shame the athletes and sports figures who participated in the uprising. He argued that the sports channel was employed to play the role of public prosecution by interrogating anti-regime athletes live on television (they were later arrested).…”

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Bahraini uprising of 2011: The (No More) hidden political role of sports journalism

Rabea

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Two events have brought the social movement in Bahrain to light yet again: the temporary detention of the football player Hakeem Al-Araibi in Thailand for alleged ‘terrorist’ acts and the imprisonment of the activist Najah Yusuf because of her criticism of the hosting of a Formula One Grand Prix. This paper sheds light on the nexus between sports journalism and politics in Bahrain. It highlights the weaponizing of sports journalism during the first few weeks of the 2011 uprising to protect the regime. The coverage of the demonstrations is analysed to inspect how the 2011 uprising was reported on by the pro-regime sports newspapers. This paper argues that sports journalism played an unprecedented political role during the uprising when it was used by the regime as a weapon to confront the protests and in the process reinforce the regime's control over the country.

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Bahraini uprising of 2011: The (No More) hidden political role of sports journalism

Rabea

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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#Blockade: Social Media and the Gulf Diplomatic Crisis

Mitchell

2019

Rev. Middle East Stud.

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The online public sphere, and the ways in which its digital media platforms influence discourse, is a crucial but understudied area of research in the six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Through a case study of the ongoing Gulf diplomatic crisis, which began in June 2017, this essay draws on the disciplines of political science, communication, and digital media studies to analyze qualitative examples of digital discourse: the role of women, territorial boundaries, and the FIFA World Cup 2022. Linking these flash points to historical struggles between the countries, this essay suggests that the politicization of the online public sphere in the region does not represent a fundamental change in the diplomacy of the region but rather a new battleground for old regional rivalries.

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The Geopolitics of Gulf Sport Sponsorship

Koch

2019

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

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Use of sports media to crack down on the 2011 Bahraini uprising

Cited by 3 publications

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Bahraini uprising of 2011: The (No More) hidden political role of sports journalism

Bahraini uprising of 2011: The (No More) hidden political role of sports journalism

#Blockade: Social Media and the Gulf Diplomatic Crisis

The Geopolitics of Gulf Sport Sponsorship

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