Issue 37, Winter/Spring 2024 https://doi.org/10.70090/BSAN24FN Abstract The rapid proliferation of fake news, misinformation, and disinformation poses a tremendous threat to the integrity of news and media production. This hazard is augmented by the instantaneous capacity to disseminate fallacious content globally with simply a touch of a button. As a result …

  Issue 36, Summer/Fall 2023 https://doi.org/10.70090/SK23AWFP Scroll down for Arabic abstract. In contrast to the negative stereotypical portrayals of Arab women in traditional media, this study investigates the self-presentation strategies employed by Arab women in feminist podcasts that utilize storytelling. The research adopted a mixed method of narrative analysis and …

Issue 35, winter/spring 2023 https://doi.org/10.70090/MA23HCSM Abstract This study examines the digital practices and online discourses of Hamas on Twitter, with a specific focus on the Palinfoen account linked to the Palestinian Information Centre (PIC). The study examines 3,500 tweets related to events in Palestine, which were either tweeted or retweeted …

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 …

The suspension of the Twitter account of former U.S. president Donald Trump after violating the platform’s publishing policies brought forth significant controversy and aroused many questions about the right to freedom of expression and its boundaries, not only in the United States, but across the globe. In the Arab region, …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/SS29RKLOg On October 17, 2019, protests began in Lebanon with angry and largely disenfranchised citizens calling for a complete overhaul of the country’s unique political system. In the year that has followed, Lebanon has suffered through one disaster after another, with seemingly unending political shifting. On …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/SOA29SCH Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. As social networking sites (SNSs) grow in size across the United Arab Emirates, they are increasingly utilized as avenues for social partnership and sustainable development. These networks are also used as a means of creating social cohesion among the …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/NAE29IUY Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the use of internet applications by young people in Yemen and their level of awareness of electronic rumors about current events and conflict in the country. To achieve this objective, the …

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/ASH28CES Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. Social Networking platforms impose new methods of creating audiovisual content, through the use of new technologies; this has also altered the nature of content production and consumption. Social networking platforms represent an ostensibly free, advanced and low-cost space, allowing …

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 …