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Media for Democracy and Peace
(Fall 2007)
In this issue, Anandan
Kavoori challenges contemporary formulations of
international communication studies and highlights the
ways in which media forms correspond to the logics of
globalization. Kavoori wants to move from a relatively
deterministic model of international communication to
one that he describes as “creative and correlational”.
Feargal Cochrane’s focal point is the critical
roles that Diaspora play in ongoing peace processes in
their countries of origin. Cochrane argues that while
“Diasporas may exist physically outside the conflict
zone they have historical, cultural, economic and
emotional ties to the direct actors in the conflict.”
With a focus on the Irish Diaspora – and specifically
the Irish-American Diaspora – Cochrane explores this
more flexible and inclusive frame of “civil society
activism” in order to better appraise the Diaspora’s
potential for constructively participating in peace
building efforts in regions that are transitioning from
violence to cooperation and peace. Carolyn Byerly
engages media reporting of the US war in Iraq to explore
the possibility for more democratic, critical, and
peace-oriented news production in the mainstream media
outlets in the United States. Byerly suggests a
framework for practitioners, scholars, researchers and
activists who are pushing the boundaries of corporate
media both from within the dominant news frame and
through alternative media forms including increased use
of the internet by previously marginalized and silenced
communities. Tal Samuel-Azran challenges the
received view that “counter-flowing images” in the
Western media of Al-Jazeera news, “has brought Western
viewers a more global perspective of news-events, thus
promoting a ‘global
culture’”. Instead, Samuel-Azran argues for a more
complex model where the flow of events is seen as
“domesticated” through local agendas. The article
cautions against any premature celebration of a
developing ‘global culture’ and discusses the potential
consequences of this for cross-cultural global news
reporting. Yasser Abu Elmakarem Abdelrahim takes
up Al-Jazeera, this time in order to discuss the issue
of neo-objectivity in news reporting. The article
examines Al Jazeera’s engagement with the concept of
objectivity in the light of actual news production
practice. Abdelrahim argues that Al-Jazeera has
transformed the structure and practices of Arab news
production – not least because of its success at
transcending a censorship regime that had previously
stifled the Arab media. Dan Caspi examines the
role of the Israeli media in the production and
reproduction of democracy. The central question is
whether “democracy in a media ecology” is “capable of
producing competent leadership and sound government” and
whether “demediocracy” can ultimately “cope efficiently
with its rival regimes – dictatorships and totalitarian
states” As Caspi argues, “the answers to these and
similar questions have far-reaching implications
regarding the survival of modern democracies in the
media age and Israeli democracy in particular.” Eric
Freedman and Ann-Marie Murphy revisit and
reconsider an historic milestone in U.S. press freedom
in the light of the ongoing ‘war on terrorism’ as they
“incorporate documentary and interview sources to
examine a landmark Cold War-era prior restraint case, as
well as its possible implications for contemporary U.S.
journalism.” For Freedman and Murphy, the value of
reexamining the prior restraint case against The
Progressive Magazine is clear: “Now, amid the atmosphere
of a ‘war against terrorism’, there are concerns that
the government may again go to court to block
publications or broadcasts in the name of “national
security.” Against a backdrop of questions concerning
media and the possibility of democratic communication,
Susan Dente Ross evaluates a recent issue of the
journal “conflict & communication online” – an issue
whose pivotal point is concerned with the possibility of
developing a peace-oriented journalism that would
challenge what Johan Galtung has called “war” or
“violence” oriented journalism. Ross brings the debate
to a wider audience of scholars and practitioners in the
hope of encouraging both more thoughtful engagement with
the media and increased scholarly/professional attention
to the role that the media might play in contributing to
the climate necessary for conflict resolution and peace.
Aim and Scope
The Mediterranean Edition
publishes scholarship with a focus on communication
and media studies from critical and cultural
perspectives, media and peace communication, and studies
in the role of communication and the media in the
resolution of conflict and the promotion of peace.
The journal especially welcomes articles from feminist
theoretical perspectives, political economy of
communication, studies in communication policy and
regulation, studies in communication and peace, peace
journalism, conflict studies, film studies, democratic
media studies, audience studies, studies in media and
ethnicity, and discourse studies. The Mediterranean
Edition accepts manuscripts for consideration
throughout the year and publishes in both Spring and
Fall.
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Graduate Research
(Fall 2007)
Graduate students
are encouraged to submit their manuscripts to
the Mediterranean Edition for
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Graduate section are reviewed by the editor and
are not submitted to the blind review process].
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