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Author_Kjetil Selvik
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hybrid politics
journalism
Lebanon
media
Middle Eastern politics
political journalism
Tunisia
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- ISBN 9781399515818
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Explains the political role of journalism in Arab countries marked by pluralist and manipulated media
Offers a fine-grained analysis of political journalism in Tunisia and Lebanon
Brings together political science and media and communication studies based on cases from the Arab region, drawing on literature in English, Arabic and French
Includes a ground-breaking account of the 2019-2020 Lebanese protests
Utilises nearly 100 face-to-face interviews with journalists, politicians and activists
Offers stimulating insights for students of Middle Eastern media and politics, built on a framework that invites comparison with other regions around the world
Lebanon and Tunisia are two of the freest countries in the Middle East and North Africa, but elites in both countries seek to manipulate media organisations and individual journalists to shore up support for themselves and attack opponents. This book explores the political role of journalism in these hybrid settings where democratic and authoritarian practices coexist a growing trend all over the world. Through interviews with journalists in different positions and analyses of key events in recent years, Journalism in the Grey Zone explains the tensions that media instrumentalisation creates in the news media and how journalists navigate conflicting pressures from powerholders and a marginalised populace. Despite 'capture' of the media by political and economic actors, journalism remains a powerful and occasionally disruptive force.
Kjetil Selvik is Research Professor in the research group on Peace, Conflict and Development at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He is co-author with Stig Stenslie of Stability and Change in the Modern Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2011) and co-editor with B.O. Utvik of Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and Stability (Routledge, 2016). Jacob Høigilt is Head of Research, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, and Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture: Politics, Language and Resistance (I. B. Tauris, 2019) and Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Routledge, 2011). He is also co-editor with Gunvor Mejdell of The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World (Brill, 2017).
