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Hagia Sophia: An Analytical Overview of Religious and Media Argumentation (Arabic)

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/OMR29RMA Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. Turkey’s Council of State, the highest Turkish administrative court, handed down its decision on July 10, 2020 regarding Hagia Sophia. The council reversed the monument’s status from a museum back into a mosque as from July 24, sparking heated …

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Building Up the Arab Science Journalism Landscape

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/SS28BASJ Science journalism in the Arab world has passed through many ups and downs; this has been particularly true for the better part of the last decade. Science journalists and editors were initially optimistic that the opening of the media landscape ushered in by the uprisings …

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A Critical Analysis of the Dialectic Science-Religion Relationship in Popular Science Show Discourse

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/EAR28CAD Abstract In light of the advancing digital environment and the interest in boosting scientific content published on digital platforms, this paper seeks to define and critically analyze the discourse of popular science shows (henceforth, “PSS”). Considering the fact that religion serves as a major foundational …

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Transformations and Trends in Science Journalism as Viewed by the Egyptian Media and Scientific Community

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/MME28TSJ Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. The study aims to identify the common perceptions and evaluation of the journalistic and scientific community in Egypt, of current transformations and trends in scientific journalism. The study does so, in order to determine the following: 1) The position …

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More than Meets the Eye: A Multimodal Approach to Science-Popularizing Discourse and Representation of the ‘Other’ in a Selection of National Geographic Feature Articles

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/NE28MMAS Abstract National Geographic Magazine (NGM) is an American cultural icon renowned for the dissemination of geographic knowledge, the exhilaration of cultural explorations, the popularization of science discourse, and the cultivation of visual imaginaries. Among popular science magazines, its distinctive force in the popular imagination squarely …

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The Role of Egyptian Science YouTube Channels in Promoting Scientific Literacy- An analytical study based on Media Richness Theory (Arabic)

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/SK28ESYT Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. Due to the rapid technological and scientific advances nowadays, the need to improve scientific literacy has become increasingly important for Arab citizens. YouTube is a Web 2.0 video-sharing platform, widely used by ordinary citizens-called “YouTubers”- to increase the public's …

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Applying the Four Models of Science Journalism to the Publics’ Interaction with Coronavirus News

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/LK28FMSJ Abstract Since the outbreak of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, the news has been covering its rapid developments by the minute, while feeding the eager publics the information they seek regarding its origin, health-threats, symptoms, preventative measures, and global impact. It is thus of pressing …

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The Earth Turns and the World has Changed: Egyptian and Arab Science Journalism in the Digital Age

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/MYG28SJD Abstract Science journalism in Egypt reflects the way science is taught, perceived and practiced in the country. Online publications cover science and technology in different ways. Yet, all of them rely on translators as most of the science stories are sourced from foreign outlets. This …

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BOOK REVIEW | OUR WOMEN ON THE GROUND

What was it like to be a woman over there?” Hannah Allam recounts being frequently asked of her time reporting from Iraq in the first essay of Our Women on the Ground. The collection of essays by female journalists, edited by Lebanese-British journalist Zahra Hankir, provides an account of “life …

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BOOK REVIEW | As Terrorism Evolves

Issue 25, winter/spring 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/DB18BRTE Seib, P. (2017). As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion and Governance. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. USC journalism professor Philip Seib has done a great service for those who follow media-driven events connected with terrorism inspired by Middle East- and Africa-based terror groups that have, for …

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