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Countering Counterfeits: The Digital Challenge of Fake News

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/AE20CCDC Abstract This article reviews the most recent academic scholarship and professional literature pertinent to fake news, in order to provide a better understanding of its challenge in the digital era. In so doing, the article outlines fake news phenomenon, its political and financial motives, its …

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From Peers to Professionals: Regulating Influencer Marketing in the United Arab Emirates

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/JG20PPRI Introduction In their work on the regulation of social media influencers, Catalina Goanta and Sofia Ranchordás noted that the topic’s complexities involve, among other things, rethinking “the distinction between peers and professionals” (2019, 14). The United Arab Emirates in 2018 addressed this issue by essentially …

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Info-Deficiency in an Infodemic: The Gender Digital Gap, Arab Women and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/SKEC29DI Abstract: This article tackles the complex struggles faced by Arab women, including multiple layers of invisibility, marginalization and inequality,[1] all of which have significantly worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. This examination includes a special focus on how and why the “digital divide,” defined as the …

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Risks and Crisis Communication Strategies in Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analytic and Critical View (Arabic)

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/AEG29RCC Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. The media contributes a vital role in raising public health awareness within society, especially in times of disease outbreaks and epidemics. This role grows according of the possibilities and tools the media and communication entities possess to help it …

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Precedented History: Arab Media Coverage of the Israeli – UAE – Bahrain Normalization Agreement

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/RA29PHAM On September 16, 2020, U.S. president Donald Trump hosted the signing ceremony for the tripartite diplomatic normalization agreement, known as the Abraham Accords, between the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Israel at the White House. The UAE is the third Arab country to declare …

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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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The Psychological Impact of Negative Media Messaging: An Egyptian Social Experiment (Arabic)

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/MAF29ESE Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. This paper examines the content and impact of negative messages targeting the Egyptian state, its figures, and institutions. After laying out the relevant literature and history of the pertinent concepts such as fourth-generation warfare, media propaganda, rumors and framing, …

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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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