POLI 340 Lecture Notes - Satellite Television, Voer, Saudia
14 Mar 2014
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Why spend time looking at the arab media. March lynch has argued that, he wrote a whole book abt aljazeera talkin abt emergence of arab public sphere that is a place for population to discuss and debate political issues. They still do in some cases in many cases but the media has changed and created more opportunities for the public. Media may matter for identity politics and poli culture. It may matter that arabs from tunsia to morroc can open television and watch same news and same tv channel n all understand it cos its in the same lingo. So perhaps in middle east the continunce of salience of arab identity and arabism which bring the arab world together is this new arab public sphere. And more n more local private broadcasters too in the arab world cos aljazeera changed the market. Media continued to be dominated by state control till 1990s.
