This paper analyses in detail the coverage of two milestones in Iraq\u27s shift towards democracy: the drafting and approval of the constitution by Iraq s interim government (August 2005) and the ratification of this constitution via the Iraqi polls (October 2005). Aside from some rudimentary quantitative analysis, a critical discourse analysis method is utilised to compare and contrast the discursive practices used in three of Australia s leading daily newspapers (The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age) with three Middle Eastern English-language papers (The Daily Star, Anadolu Agency and the Jordan Times). The paper finds that the Australian print media continues the neo-Orientalist tradition of media coverage of Middle East...
The notion of "democracy" is a critical cultural and political referent for supporters and opponents...
Iraq’s long and complex past has played a particularly poignant role in establishing and legit...
This paper looks at the applicability of formal, informal, liberal and corporate consociationalism t...
Throughout the coverage of Iraq since the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s and especially since September ...
The toppling of Saddam in 2003 has seen Iraq shift from only a handful of state organs that served a...
Despite a wealth of recent research which has detailed the impact that new media outlets and technol...
The toppling of Saddam in 2003 brought with it the re-emergence of the free press in Iraq. This has ...
A series of bomb blasts that targeted a number of Assyrian churches in Baghdad and Mosul last year w...
This blog post introduces the LSE research project ‘Pockets of Media Civicness’ in a Conflictual Pol...
Models of mass media and democracy, as commonly discussed by media theorists, suggest there is a tig...
This thesis has chosen the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study to examine the media's function ...
Models of mass media and democracy, as commonly discussed by media theorists, suggest there is a tig...
In the avalanche of analyses about what went wrong in Iraq, one area should be of particular interes...
The rise of narratives of disinformation in the Iraqi public sphere is threatening to destabilise an...
In the avalanche of analyses about what went wrong in Iraq, one area should be of particular interes...
The notion of "democracy" is a critical cultural and political referent for supporters and opponents...
Iraq’s long and complex past has played a particularly poignant role in establishing and legit...
This paper looks at the applicability of formal, informal, liberal and corporate consociationalism t...
Throughout the coverage of Iraq since the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s and especially since September ...
The toppling of Saddam in 2003 has seen Iraq shift from only a handful of state organs that served a...
Despite a wealth of recent research which has detailed the impact that new media outlets and technol...
The toppling of Saddam in 2003 brought with it the re-emergence of the free press in Iraq. This has ...
A series of bomb blasts that targeted a number of Assyrian churches in Baghdad and Mosul last year w...
This blog post introduces the LSE research project ‘Pockets of Media Civicness’ in a Conflictual Pol...
Models of mass media and democracy, as commonly discussed by media theorists, suggest there is a tig...
This thesis has chosen the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study to examine the media's function ...
Models of mass media and democracy, as commonly discussed by media theorists, suggest there is a tig...
In the avalanche of analyses about what went wrong in Iraq, one area should be of particular interes...
The rise of narratives of disinformation in the Iraqi public sphere is threatening to destabilise an...
In the avalanche of analyses about what went wrong in Iraq, one area should be of particular interes...
The notion of "democracy" is a critical cultural and political referent for supporters and opponents...
Iraq’s long and complex past has played a particularly poignant role in establishing and legit...
This paper looks at the applicability of formal, informal, liberal and corporate consociationalism t...