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Publication details [#56728]

Rinnawi, Khalil. 2012. Cyber uprising: Al-Jazeera TV channel and the Egyptian uprising. Language and Intercultural Communication 12 (2) : 118–132.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | journalese | political language | television | transformation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that the pan-Arab satellite news channel al-Jazeera, amongst others, has played a key role in the process of political and socio-cultural transformations, both during the 2011 Egyptian insurrection itself and beyond it.