1st Edition
Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back
1. Introduction: The Al Jazeera Moment 2. A Strategic Contra-Flow? Al Jazeera-Qatari Relations 3. Editorial Strategies: The Challenges of "Reporting Back" 4. Reversing the News Flow? The News Geography on Al Jazeera English 5. A Voice of the Voiceless: Al Jazeera English's Source Hierarchies 6. Challenging the Spin: The Gaza War 2008-9 7. Suffering Up-Close: Al Jazeera English's Dramatic Visualizations 8. Beyond the Arab Spring: The Structural Contradictions of the Al Jazeera
Biography
Tine Ustad Figenschou is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway. Figenschou has published widely on Al Jazeera English, and her work has appeared in Journalism, Media, Culture & Society, Global Media and Communication and International Journal of Communication.
'Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape does an excellent job of breaking down the pieces of this complex phenomenon of satellite news spanning the globe. It examines the motivation behind the network as well as the challenge of reaching a broad audience.' Geri Spieler, New York Journal of Books
"This is a terrific little book and another fine addition to an excellent series in internationalizing media studies. It deftly and succinctly folds the work of Al Jazeera English into many of the debates regarding international communication. The book can also serve as a nice introduction to Al Jazeera in general, beyond the English-language channel that is its main focus...the numerous literature reviews embedded in the text could serve as a valuable syllabus to those in the field, both beginners and advanced scholars. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - J. K. Chakars, Gwynedd Mercy University, CHOICE
