lundi 8 octobre 2007

Research Proposal: suggestions of research questions

Can you please give me your feedbacks about the three following research questions.

I-Who is more objective? —The Western Media or the Arab media?
- Issues and/or notions tackled: objectivity, self-criticism, censorship, media autonomy, private ownership vs. state-controlled ownership, lobbying, etc.

II- Is the Arab media coverage of the Israelo-Palestinian conflict the inversed mirror of the Western media coverage of the same issue?
- Comparative analysis
- The dialectic: Arab vs. Western media.
- Investigative research on a specific topic.
- Objectivity, self-criticism.

- Propaganda: political parties T.V. channels.
- Scope of influence: Local? Global? Glocal?

III- Is the Arab media promoting democracy? If not, should it?
- A tool for promoting people's citizenship.
-Elections and the "Citizen Media".
- Democratic advancements in Arabic countries and the expansion of media.
- Proselyte media: promoting extremism (Djihad) and retrograde ideas.

1 commentaire:

Unknown a dit…

The three topics are interesant.

Choose the one that is related to your presentation.