![]() Title: The role of the daily newspaper 'Almasry Alyoum' in disseminating development news in the Egyptian villagesĪddresses: Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, MalaysiaĪbstract: This dissertation reviewed the role of the independent newspaper 'Almasry Alyoum' in disseminating development news in the Egyptian villages. ![]() International Journal of Arab Culture, Management and Sustainable Development.Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research The dissertation found that the development news represented only 0.72% in average of the total news area. The sample size calculated was 28 issues of the newspaper. As a quantitative study, the research methodology was based on a sampling error of 9.5% and confidence level at 68%. Therefore, the dissertation analysed 28 issues from 'Almasry Alyoum' to seek the answers to the research objective. The research method was content analysis in order to identify the news related to the Egyptian village development in terms of their priority, to analyse the variety of development news, and to determine the usefulness of the development news. This dissertation examined whether the development news in 'Almasry Alyoum' have been advantageous for the Egyptian villages. ![]() This iMeedan project fed into the Check Global Project: Developing a Digital Literacy and Verification Network in the Global South.Article: The role of the daily newspaper 'Almasry Alyoum' in disseminating development news in the Egyptian villages Journal: International Journal of Arab Culture, Management and Sustainable Development (IJACMSD) 2012 Vol.2 No.2/3 pp.153 - 184 Abstract: This dissertation reviewed the role of the independent newspaper 'Almasry Alyoum' in disseminating development news in the Egyptian villages. Provide citizens with the knowledge required to hold their governments to account.įor more information about the iMeedan project, please visit the BCMCR website.Enable citizens to make informed political choices.Helping people to sort fact from rumour. ![]() The iMeedan project will also feed into another BCMCR project, Developing Citizen Journalists in the Arab Region, which works with citizens in Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan, and with Syrian citizens in Lebanon, to help citizen journalists to become trusted sources.īoth projects will contribute to strengthening democratic media in the following ways: The project activity and its evaluation will also contribute to Noha's PhD research. The Interactive Cultures team designed and delivered training material, and evaluated the project's success, both as an intervention and in terms of the broader intellectual context of media and democracy. The iMeedan system allows users to translate news information to and from Arabic, and to assess the reliability of source material that they encounter online.Ĭitizen journalists were trained to use the technology, and AlMasry AlYoum aim to incorporate citizen journalism into the context of more traditional journalistic practice - the newspaper. The iMeedan project focused on making a contribution to improving media plurality in Egypt, through technological intervention and training. The project was funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). During 2011 to 2012 Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) researchers Prof Tim Wall, Paul Bradshaw, and Noha Atef from the Interactive Cultures team, worked with other partners include independent Egyptian news organisation AlMasry AlYoum. IMeedan was a partnership project, led by Meedan, a non-profit social technology company registered in California.
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