Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/NF18INTR When the issues of youth and media are addressed, we should consider the course of that relationship and its limits. For technological and sociological reasons, media—especially new and emerging platforms—are characterized by successive leaps towards greater interaction and freedom of communication. The media is no …

عندما يتم تناول قضية الإعلام والشباب، ينبغي أن نتأمل قليلاً مسار العلاقة وحدودها بين طرفي هذه المعادلة. أصبح الإعلام، وخصوصاً الجديد، لأسباب تكنولوجية وسيسيولوجية،  منطبعاً بسمات الشباب بوثباته المتتالية نحو مزيد من التفاعلية والطوق نحو حرية ورحابة البيئة الاتصالية وزوال الحدود. إن الإعلام لم يعد شيئاً يمكن تعريفه بشكل محدد وشامل، …

Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/HA18EDIT The world now pays special attention to young people, often viewing them as the most critical group in the building and development of societies. In the Arab world, they make up the largest group, representing a qualitative advantage that requires investment to achieve desired growth. …

يُولِي العالم كله الآن اهتماماً خاصاً بالشباب بوصفهم الفئة الأكثر فاعلية في بناء المجتمعات ونهضتها، وفي عالمنا العربي، نجد أنهم الفئة الأكثر عدداً بما يمثل ميزة نوعية ينبغي استثمارها لتحقيق النمو المنشود، والمتابع للمشهد، يجد أن الثقة في قدرات الشباب في القيادة على مستويات مختلفة بدأت تزداد، ولاسيما أن هناك …

Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/HB18FNSM What do school reform, presidential elections, LGBTQ rights, globalization, police brutality, and a Boston casino have in common:? They have all been the impetus behind youth participating, communicating, and practicing forms of connective journalism in the United States. This, in brief, is the main argument …

Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/OAG18IAP Since 2011, the Kuwaiti telecom company Zain Group, one of the largest in the Middle East, has produced a series of popular ads broadcast annually during Ramadan. The ads are songs, usually featuring celebrities singing and dancing with children. Since 2015, the ads have become …

Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/KSA18ACA Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. According to statistics released in December 2017, the number of web users in Egypt are about 49.23 million. This represents about 49.5% of the population estimated at 99.4 million. The number of users subscribed on the Facebook network is …

Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/NA18EYNC Abstract One lesson learned from Egypt’s 2011 uprising was that young people are highly active politically as witnessed by the emergence of the networked young citizen. As the country became more stable it was feared that members of this participatory culture would reject formal politics …

Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/MST18OSP Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. Because of the areas many journalists work that have been identified as dangerous physically, professionally, and personally, the subject of journalists' safety has been of great interest in recent years. Within this context, some institutions have established professional safety …

Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/MAAM18EV Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. New media has led to rapid changes in the behavior of its users in a way that indicates different forms of violence in order to support the frequent hostile behavior of an individual or a group, intending to seize …