Issue 40, Summer/Fall 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.40jfyb Abstract The Jordanian government has officially adopted a ‘neutral’ foreign policy position on the war in Ukraine since 2022, providing an interesting case for examining media responses to conflict in a context where official positions are often supported and reproduced by media participants. To examine …

Issue 40, Summer/Fall 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.40asbe Abstract The 2023–2024 Gaza war produced an unprecedented volume of digital news coverage, though visibility was not evenly distributed across representations of the conflict. This study examines the communicative characteristics of highly visible war reporting, analyzing emotional framing, thematic emphasis, and headline construction in high-engagement …

Issue 40, Summer/Fall 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.40doaad Abstract Supplanting the sensationalized news coverage of traditional media with a humanitarian narrative agenda, alternative news websites, freelance journalists and educational accounts are gaining prominence among MENA young creators. While the literature on political communication, technopolitics and network analysis has shed light, in recent decades, …

Issue 40, Summer/Fall 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.40tasm Abstract This study examines YouTube’s role in mediating televised reporting on child marriage in Yemen by focusing on the case of Nujood Ali, who was forced into marriage at the age of eight and was divorced at ten. Her story drew global attention from social …

Issue 40, Summer/Fall 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.40rha Abstract This article explores how English-language audio podcasts frame the geopolitical narratives of the June 2025 Israeli strike on Iran, focusing on how legitimacy, threat, and resistance are discursively articulated. Moving beyond approaches that treat podcasts as neutral or reflective media, the study argues they …

Issue 39, Winter/Spring 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.39hn Scroll down for Arabic abstract. This study analyzes the business models adopted in Omani journalism in the context of digital transformation. It employs a qualitative approach that includes semi-structured in-depth interviews with a number of journalists and newspaper management teams, alongside an analysis of institutional …

Issue 39, Winter/Spring 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.39lrlf Scroll down for Arabic abstract. This study examines digital influencer economies by focusing on educational content creators in Algeria, with particular attention to research gaps and the regulatory and legal challenges they face. The study adopts a mixed-methods design (quantitative and qualitative): semi-structured in-depth interviews …

Issue 39, Winter/Spring 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.39whf Abstract Western media widely framed Qatar 2022 as the “most controversial World Cup in history”, with debate centering on migrant labor abuses, human rights violations, and LGBTQ+ discrimination rather than religion or culture. This article examines how YouTube videos and their comment sections reproduce, contest, …

Issue 39, Winter/Spring 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.39smaa Scroll down for Arabic abstract. This study aims to examine the state of emerging digital platforms producing visual content in Yemen through a case study of the “Nas Aden” platform. The methodology is based on a case-study design, including in-depth interviews with four members of …

Issue 39, Winter/Spring 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.39isma Abstract This study examines the use of digital platforms by a non-state actor during the October 2023–January 2024 war in Gaza, analyzing 369 media outputs produced over a 100-day period. Using a mixed-methods design that combines quantitative content analysis with qualitative thematic coding, the study …