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The end of pan-Arab media? National, transnational media and identity in Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan after 2011
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Abstract The article explores the relation between identity definition and trust in different information sources in Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia following the 2011 Uprisings. While prior to 2011 literature mostly highlighted the role of pan-Arab news channels in consolidating a transnational Arab public sphe... view more
The article explores the relation between identity definition and trust in different information sources in Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia following the 2011 Uprisings. While prior to 2011 literature mostly highlighted the role of pan-Arab news channels in consolidating a transnational Arab public sphere, recent studies argued that there has been a reinforcement of national media and identities in the Middle East and North Africa, as a consequence of a partial liberalisation of national broadcasting. Our study is based on the Arab Transformations survey (2014), which unlike previous surveys included questions covering both media consumption and identity definition. We looked at how in the three countries the choice of Muslim, Arab or national identity definition was associated with the preference for distinct sources of political news. The results only partially confirmed the hypothesis of a renewed importance of national media and showed that in the three countries people tended to attribute very different values to the same news sources.... view less
Keywords
Jordan; Morocco; Tunisia; national identity; cultural identity; ethnicity; religiousness; information-seeking behavior; media; utilization; social media; television; mass media; news; source of information; opinion formation; Arab countries; Middle East; North Africa
Classification
Impact Research, Recipient Research
Public Opinion Research
Free Keywords
Arab Uprisings; ethnic identity; religious identity; transnational television
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 418-444
Journal
The International Communication Gazette, 81 (2019) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048518775002
ISSN
1748-0493
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications