El Mustapha Lahlali
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748639090
- eISBN:
- 9780748671304
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748639090.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book presents a detailed study of the three dominant Arab media channels — Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra and Al-Arabia — and their role post-9/11. The Arab world is currently undergoing a radical media ...
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This book presents a detailed study of the three dominant Arab media channels — Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra and Al-Arabia — and their role post-9/11. The Arab world is currently undergoing a radical media revolution, with the launch of numerous satellite and cable channels. The era of state-controlled media is coming to an end as privately owned channels emerge. The book provides a critical overview of the development of Arab media; examines the aims and impact of Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra and Al-Arabia, and compares their broadcasting strategies, programmes and use of language; and includes comparative case studies of the coverage of the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and US foreign policy.Less
This book presents a detailed study of the three dominant Arab media channels — Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra and Al-Arabia — and their role post-9/11. The Arab world is currently undergoing a radical media revolution, with the launch of numerous satellite and cable channels. The era of state-controlled media is coming to an end as privately owned channels emerge. The book provides a critical overview of the development of Arab media; examines the aims and impact of Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra and Al-Arabia, and compares their broadcasting strategies, programmes and use of language; and includes comparative case studies of the coverage of the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and US foreign policy.
Lorraine Daston
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226432229
- eISBN:
- 9780226432533
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226432533.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
First nature is the teeming, tangled complexity of phenomena as they happen; second nature is the systematic and selective investigation of phenomena in the laboratory, the observatory, and the ...
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First nature is the teeming, tangled complexity of phenomena as they happen; second nature is the systematic and selective investigation of phenomena in the laboratory, the observatory, and the field; third nature is the repository of those findings from second nature selected to endure in the archives of science. In contrast to the laboratory, observatory, and field, the archives of the sciences – the herbaria of the botanists, the observational records of the astronomers, the digital silos of the climate researchers, the libraries of everything from parchment scrolls to digital scans – have been largely invisible as a site of science. We are, however, in the midst of an archival moment, as new digital media raise questions about how to insure the continuity of the scientific archives that make cumulative, collective knowledge possible in both the natural and human sciences. This is not the first such archival moment – the print revolution of early modern Europe triggered similar anxieties about irretrievable loss and visions of unlimited storage – and reflections on the long and diverse history of scientific archives and their associated practices of collection, selection, preservation, transmission, and retrieval hold lessons for the present.Less
First nature is the teeming, tangled complexity of phenomena as they happen; second nature is the systematic and selective investigation of phenomena in the laboratory, the observatory, and the field; third nature is the repository of those findings from second nature selected to endure in the archives of science. In contrast to the laboratory, observatory, and field, the archives of the sciences – the herbaria of the botanists, the observational records of the astronomers, the digital silos of the climate researchers, the libraries of everything from parchment scrolls to digital scans – have been largely invisible as a site of science. We are, however, in the midst of an archival moment, as new digital media raise questions about how to insure the continuity of the scientific archives that make cumulative, collective knowledge possible in both the natural and human sciences. This is not the first such archival moment – the print revolution of early modern Europe triggered similar anxieties about irretrievable loss and visions of unlimited storage – and reflections on the long and diverse history of scientific archives and their associated practices of collection, selection, preservation, transmission, and retrieval hold lessons for the present.
