Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere
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Data de Publicação: | 2021 |
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Resumo: | The decade following the 2010–2011 Arab uprisings saw a flourishing of emerging media organisations across the region. The most recognisable examples of these new independent media actors include Enab Baladi in Syria, Mada Masr in Egypt, and Inkyfada in Tunisia. However, this phenomenon comprises a much more diverse set of actors from small-scale associative radio stations in Tunisia to numerous exilic Syrian media outlets. Building on previous research as well as recent fieldwork in Tunisia and Turkey, this article is an attempt to make sense of the genesis, development, and relevance of this new class of media actors. We argue that these emerging media organisations can be seen to represent specific interventions into the politics of voice in their various national and local contexts, but ones that share similar logics. To elucidate this argument, we propose a multi-dimensional understanding of these interventions that brings together voices (actors, issues, discourses), modalities of voice (organisational models, values, production value), and the underlying political economy of these emerging media (funding, institutionalisation). However, the article also argues that these interventions, and the logics they share, themselves belie a complex interaction between the political and professional agency and precarity of these media organisations and the individuals, and groups, behind them. We believe that combining these two perspectives is a necessary step for a more nuanced understanding of the nature and practice of these emerging media organisations. |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab MediasphereArab uprisings; emerging media; institutionalisation; media development; MENA; politics of voice; professionalisationThe decade following the 2010–2011 Arab uprisings saw a flourishing of emerging media organisations across the region. The most recognisable examples of these new independent media actors include Enab Baladi in Syria, Mada Masr in Egypt, and Inkyfada in Tunisia. However, this phenomenon comprises a much more diverse set of actors from small-scale associative radio stations in Tunisia to numerous exilic Syrian media outlets. Building on previous research as well as recent fieldwork in Tunisia and Turkey, this article is an attempt to make sense of the genesis, development, and relevance of this new class of media actors. We argue that these emerging media organisations can be seen to represent specific interventions into the politics of voice in their various national and local contexts, but ones that share similar logics. To elucidate this argument, we propose a multi-dimensional understanding of these interventions that brings together voices (actors, issues, discourses), modalities of voice (organisational models, values, production value), and the underlying political economy of these emerging media (funding, institutionalisation). However, the article also argues that these interventions, and the logics they share, themselves belie a complex interaction between the political and professional agency and precarity of these media organisations and the individuals, and groups, behind them. We believe that combining these two perspectives is a necessary step for a more nuanced understanding of the nature and practice of these emerging media organisations.Cogitatio2021-12-17info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i4.4475oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4475Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Ten Years after the Arab Uprisings: Beyond Media and Liberation; 264-2742183-2439reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4475https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i4.4475https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4475/4475Copyright (c) 2021 Yazan Badranhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBadran, Yazan2022-12-20T10:58:00Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4475Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:20:43.229133Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere Badran, Yazan Arab uprisings; emerging media; institutionalisation; media development; MENA; politics of voice; professionalisation |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere |
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere |
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Badran, Yazan |
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Badran, Yazan |
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Badran, Yazan |
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Arab uprisings; emerging media; institutionalisation; media development; MENA; politics of voice; professionalisation |
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Arab uprisings; emerging media; institutionalisation; media development; MENA; politics of voice; professionalisation |
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The decade following the 2010–2011 Arab uprisings saw a flourishing of emerging media organisations across the region. The most recognisable examples of these new independent media actors include Enab Baladi in Syria, Mada Masr in Egypt, and Inkyfada in Tunisia. However, this phenomenon comprises a much more diverse set of actors from small-scale associative radio stations in Tunisia to numerous exilic Syrian media outlets. Building on previous research as well as recent fieldwork in Tunisia and Turkey, this article is an attempt to make sense of the genesis, development, and relevance of this new class of media actors. We argue that these emerging media organisations can be seen to represent specific interventions into the politics of voice in their various national and local contexts, but ones that share similar logics. To elucidate this argument, we propose a multi-dimensional understanding of these interventions that brings together voices (actors, issues, discourses), modalities of voice (organisational models, values, production value), and the underlying political economy of these emerging media (funding, institutionalisation). However, the article also argues that these interventions, and the logics they share, themselves belie a complex interaction between the political and professional agency and precarity of these media organisations and the individuals, and groups, behind them. We believe that combining these two perspectives is a necessary step for a more nuanced understanding of the nature and practice of these emerging media organisations. |
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