Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya: Understanding Media Bias

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60162694%3AG38__%2F20%3A00556509" target="_blank" >RIV/60162694:G38__/20:00556509 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/en/archive/2020/4-2020/dominika-kosarova.html" target="_blank" >http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/en/archive/2020/4-2020/dominika-kosarova.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2020.23.4.87-108" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2020.23.4.87-108</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya: Understanding Media Bias

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Several studies have been dealing with the question of whether state-sponsored Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are biased. Their findings suggest that the message of both media reflects the interests of their respective state-sponsors. This article aims to validate this assumption, however in contrast to already existing literature it will test the hypothesis on a non-conflict related case study: the coverage of Muslim Summit which was held in December 2019 in Kuala Lumpur. To achieve the objective, we seek to first identify Al Jazeera’s and Al Arabiya’s bias, its specific features and the message delivered by means of comparative discourse analysis, namely manipulative strategies and ideological square as defined by Blass and van Dijk, respectively. Afterwards, we examine how the identified bias fits into the strategic interests of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, their respective state-sponsors. The analysis shows that both media, when covering Muslim Summit, used manipulative techniques to deliver the opposite message about the Summit, which is in line with their state-sponsors’ often incompatible regional ambitions and foreign policy. This article contributes to already existing literature on Arab media discourse analysis by focusing on a specific non-conflict-related issue not covered by other studies making thus the hypothesis applicable more broadly.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya: Understanding Media Bias

Popis výsledku anglicky

Several studies have been dealing with the question of whether state-sponsored Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are biased. Their findings suggest that the message of both media reflects the interests of their respective state-sponsors. This article aims to validate this assumption, however in contrast to already existing literature it will test the hypothesis on a non-conflict related case study: the coverage of Muslim Summit which was held in December 2019 in Kuala Lumpur. To achieve the objective, we seek to first identify Al Jazeera’s and Al Arabiya’s bias, its specific features and the message delivered by means of comparative discourse analysis, namely manipulative strategies and ideological square as defined by Blass and van Dijk, respectively. Afterwards, we examine how the identified bias fits into the strategic interests of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, their respective state-sponsors. The analysis shows that both media, when covering Muslim Summit, used manipulative techniques to deliver the opposite message about the Summit, which is in line with their state-sponsors’ often incompatible regional ambitions and foreign policy. This article contributes to already existing literature on Arab media discourse analysis by focusing on a specific non-conflict-related issue not covered by other studies making thus the hypothesis applicable more broadly.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Politické Vedy

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

1338-5623

Svazek periodika

23

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

87-108

Kód UT WoS článku

000607490200005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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