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The Cognitive And Applied Implications Of The Digital Environment On Media Education Curricula In Jordanian Universities - A Field Study, Kamel Murad Dec 2023

The Cognitive And Applied Implications Of The Digital Environment On Media Education Curricula In Jordanian Universities - A Field Study, Kamel Murad

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The article aims to reveal the repercussions of the digital environment on the systematic construction of media and communication courses in Jordanian universities, and to monitor the expected gap between the current reality of the curricula and the hoped reality in light of the developments in digital communication. The article focuses on a set of core topics in the media; and compares the theoretical aspect that the media courses offer with the required skill aspect and what the digital environment can add on both sides in terms of editing, directing, photography, speech, presentation, design, montage, and preparation in various media …


Ordeals Of Returnee Bangladeshi Migrant Women Domestic Workers, Md. Mahamudul Haque Dec 2023

Ordeals Of Returnee Bangladeshi Migrant Women Domestic Workers, Md. Mahamudul Haque

Future Journal of Social Science

This article explores the ordeals of returnee female domestic migrant workers of Bangladesh to find out ways help formulate policies by the government. A study has been conducted based on primary and secondary sources. It finds that all types of tortures, including physical, sexual, setting them on afire, forcibly cutting their hair, and hit and falls from rooftop, has to be faced by the women migrant workers. The Bangladeshi female migrant workers have to work for 16-18 hours in a day. They are made untimely repatriation to Bangladesh without pay blaming them for theft or such other false allegations. This …


Role Of Identity In Peace Process: A Re-Interpretation Of The Islamic Heritage, Yasmine Z. Radwan Dec 2023

Role Of Identity In Peace Process: A Re-Interpretation Of The Islamic Heritage, Yasmine Z. Radwan

Future Journal of Social Science

Reviewing the Western theories and ideologies on building and maintaining peace reflected in the conflict management and resolution in practice always indicates an imperative need for another perspective that could play an integral role in the international society. Regardless of the continuing call for an Islamic contribution in this field on the part of some Western scholars, the Muslim society itself based on a specific culture and a distinctive identity requires a different approach with particular tools that could fit its epistemological model. Exploring this approach, which is the main concern and the main aim of this paper, would never …


Internet Freedom During Crises: Limits And Restrictions, Ibrahim Al Khasawneh, Abdulkareem Aldebaisi Oct 2023

Internet Freedom During Crises: Limits And Restrictions, Ibrahim Al Khasawneh, Abdulkareem Aldebaisi

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The study aimed to reveal the limitations imposed by some political systems in the world to restrict Internet freedom during political crises, conflict, and the dangers of those limitations, restrictions on freedom of expression and human rights. The study adopted the descriptive approach to explain the theoretical framework of the concept of freedom of human use of the Internet, freedom of the Internet as a human right, the role of the Internet in encouraging freedom of expression of public opinion, the types of restrictions imposed on it in normal circumstances and in times of crisis, and the motives of those …


Coverage Of The Israeli Military Spokespersons Of The Six Self-Liberated Palestinian Prisoners From The Maximum-Security Israeli Prison Of Gilboa, Moeen Koa, Neveen Alawneh, Rinad Mahmmoud Oct 2023

Coverage Of The Israeli Military Spokespersons Of The Six Self-Liberated Palestinian Prisoners From The Maximum-Security Israeli Prison Of Gilboa, Moeen Koa, Neveen Alawneh, Rinad Mahmmoud

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to find out how the spokespersons for the Israeli occupation army, specifically the "coordinator and Avichay Adraee" pages on Facebook, covered the issue of the six self-liberated Palestinian prisoners from the highly secure walls of Gilboa prison through a tunnel they dug under their cell's bathroom. The study used the total population sample to analyze the two pages' content from September 6, 2021, to November 30, 2021. The study found that these pages used media frames to distort the image of the Palestinian prisoners. The most dominant frame was the strategic frame by 40% to show the …


Reputation Themes From Communication Perspective: A Qualitative Systematic Review, Omar Abu Arqoub Oct 2023

Reputation Themes From Communication Perspective: A Qualitative Systematic Review, Omar Abu Arqoub

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The article aimed to systematically review communication reputation-related research to shape the reputation literature from a communication perspective. After investigating several databases, a total of 366 peer-reviewed communication journal articles focusing on reputation were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study. A qualitative text mining and thematic analysis approach was conducted using the NVivo program to examine the most frequently used words and major emergent themes. The results revealed that the topmost frequently repeated words in communication reputation-focused articles were “crisis,” “public,” “reputation,” “communication,” “media,” and “relations.” Also, this study discussed the six major themes that …


دور وسائل الإعلام المدرسي في تنمية المسؤولية المجتمعية لدى طلبة المدارس الثانوية في قصبة إربد الأُردن من وجهة نظر المدرسين, Salem Mohammad Al Quraan, Ayman Mohammad Naser Khraisat Oct 2023

دور وسائل الإعلام المدرسي في تنمية المسؤولية المجتمعية لدى طلبة المدارس الثانوية في قصبة إربد الأُردن من وجهة نظر المدرسين, Salem Mohammad Al Quraan, Ayman Mohammad Naser Khraisat

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال التعرف إلى دور وسائل الإعلام المدرسي باعتبارها من أهم الوسائل التربوية في تنمية المسؤولية المجتمعية - من خلال ما تقدمه من مواد علمية وثقافية - لدى الطلبة من وجهة نظر أفراد عينة الدراسة البالغ عددهم 50 معلماً. استخدم الباحثان المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، والاستبانةالتي تكونت من (26) فقرة، بعد التأكد من صدقها وثباتها، كأداة لجمع بيانات الدراسة. واستُخدم برنامج (SPSS) لتحليل بياناتها واستخلاص نتائجها. أهم النتائج: أن هناك دوراً ايجابياً مرتفعاً المستوى لوسائل الإعلام المدرسية في تنمية المسؤولية المجتمعية لدى الطلبة، حيث كان تأثير هذا الدور مرتفع في تنمية المسؤولية تجاه المدرسة وبيئتها، وبدرجة متوسطة في تنمية المسؤولية تجاه …


أطر معالجة أخبار النزاع في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة في المواقع الإلكترونية الأردنية, Manal Almazahra Oct 2023

أطر معالجة أخبار النزاع في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة في المواقع الإلكترونية الأردنية, Manal Almazahra

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

تمثلت مشكلة الدراسة في رصد وتحليل أطر معالجة المواقع الإلكترونية الأردنية لقضايا الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة في ضوء نظريتي الأجندة والأطر الإعلامية، وقد طبقت الدراسة التحليلية على المواقع الإلكترونية الإخبارية الأردنية "الدستور، الغد، الحقيقة الدولية" خلال الفترة من 1 نيسان وحتى 30 أيلول 2022، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى عدد من النتائج جاء أهمها أن أكثر القضايا التي ركزت عليها صحف الدراسة هي قضية "مواجهات واعتقالات لقوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي ضد الشعب الفلسطيني في القدس والمدن الفلسطينية المحتلة"، وأن الأخبار جاءت كأكثر الأنماط الصحفية استخداماً في عرض هذه القضايا، وأن إطار الصراع قد تفوق على بقية الأطر المستخدمة في المواقع الإلكترونية، …


The Role Of Palestinian Documentaries In Addressing The Issues Of Palestinian Prisoners And Detainees: An Analytical Study, Sabeeh “Z. Masri”, Diana Fraija, Alaa Ayyash Sep 2023

The Role Of Palestinian Documentaries In Addressing The Issues Of Palestinian Prisoners And Detainees: An Analytical Study, Sabeeh “Z. Masri”, Diana Fraija, Alaa Ayyash

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aims to know the role of Palestinian documentaries in addressing the issues of Palestinian prisoners by identifying the most important producers and financiers of Palestinian documentaries, the most important topics they deal with in relation to the issues of Palestinian prisoners, the nature of the audience targeted by them, and ways to address the issues of Palestinian prisoners, in addition to Monitoring the elements of the image, the types of constructivism and the language used in the interviews in these films. It is a descriptive study that followed the method of content analysis of a group of 16 …


The Mental Image ... Sources, Factors And Dimensions And The Role Of Public Relations In Improving It In Light Of The Digital Revolution (Jordanian Ministries As A Model), Nawzat Abu Alasal, Sami Melki Jul 2023

The Mental Image ... Sources, Factors And Dimensions And The Role Of Public Relations In Improving It In Light Of The Digital Revolution (Jordanian Ministries As A Model), Nawzat Abu Alasal, Sami Melki

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The current study, entitled “The mental image…sources, dimensions and the role of public relations in developing it under the digital revolution (Jordanian ministries as a model)”, sought to identify the nature of the mental image of Jordanian ministries in term of their formation sources, forming factors, dimensions and the role of public relations and their contribution in developing this image among publics of the ministries in light of the data and tools of the digital revolution. To obtain the field information and data of the study, the questionnaire tool was designed which was applied to (404) subjects of the Jordanian …


The Zionist Organizations’ Recruitment Of Propaganda Techniques On Facebook: An Analytical Study Of ‘Stand With Us’ Arabic Page, Mueen Fathi Al-Koua, Heba Hussein Jun 2023

The Zionist Organizations’ Recruitment Of Propaganda Techniques On Facebook: An Analytical Study Of ‘Stand With Us’ Arabic Page, Mueen Fathi Al-Koua, Heba Hussein

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

The study aimed at identifying the extent to which the Zionist organization ‘Stand with Us’ recruited propaganda techniques through its communication on Facebook to persuade Arabic-speaking audiences to accept the occupation entity presence as an “original” part of the Arab World. It also aimed at identifying the most important topics the organization posits and the way it frames its messages through the Facebook platform. The study used content analysis method to analyze the Arabic Facebook page of the organization from the 1st of May to the end of June 2020, which is the period when Israel announced its annexation plan …


The Digital Divide Between The Outputs Of Media Faculties And The Leading Sector In The Jordanian Market... Indicators And Treatments, Hani A. Al Badri Jun 2023

The Digital Divide Between The Outputs Of Media Faculties And The Leading Sector In The Jordanian Market... Indicators And Treatments, Hani A. Al Badri

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

Global technological transformations predict the birth of new societies based on knowledge and qualitative elements of production within an accelerated digital environment, which calls for a review of various educational strategies to keep pace with the high dynamism in the business sectors. Therefore, the research aims to shed light on the digital gap between the educational outputs of the media faculties and the leading sector in the Jordanian market. The article adopted the inductive method based on observation and comparison of the results of previous literature and official reports. The article concluded that despite the great development that Jordan has …


Terrorism And Growth: Evidence From India And Egypt, Nibal Ezz Eldin Attia Nibal, Ahmed Sabry Abou Zaid Jun 2023

Terrorism And Growth: Evidence From India And Egypt, Nibal Ezz Eldin Attia Nibal, Ahmed Sabry Abou Zaid

Future Journal of Social Science

The impact of terrorism is different in developed and developing countries, according to many economists. But what leads to variation in the consequences of terrorism among two developing countries? This paper takes into account two developing countries from two different continents and quantifies the impact of terrorism on GDP per capita. The data is extracted and arranged from the Global Terrorism Index (Humanity, n.d.) for India and Egypt from the years 1975-2018 and 1977-2018, respectively. A set of statistical analyses using the OLS and Newey-West method is used to examine the relationship between the variables. For India, an act of …


Reimagining The Theory Of Necropolitics In A Modern Lens: Hate Crimes And Violence, Salma Ahmed Abdulmagied Gheita Jun 2023

Reimagining The Theory Of Necropolitics In A Modern Lens: Hate Crimes And Violence, Salma Ahmed Abdulmagied Gheita

Future Journal of Social Science

This research paper is testing the validity of the Necropolitics theory and how we can reintroduce its definitions in a modern lens. Though the theory of Necropolitics is extreme and historically was a terminology and paradigm that was used towards more catastrophic and traumatizing events. The main argument that this paper is discussing is how did the idea of Necropolitics evolved into a more institutional, systematic, and legalized manors of exclusion. This is made through critical discourse analysis of the text presented on the term Necropolitics to highlight on the history of this term and what it stood for in …


The Level Of Hearing-Impaired Interaction With The Sign Language Translation Service In The Media And Their Satisfactions, Hanan Kamel Ahmed Ismail Mar 2023

The Level Of Hearing-Impaired Interaction With The Sign Language Translation Service In The Media And Their Satisfactions, Hanan Kamel Ahmed Ismail

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The article aims to explore the interaction of hearing-impaired with the sign language translation service in the media and know the gratifications which achieved from the media programs. The study adopted the descriptive approach, using the questionnaire to find out the opinion of a sample of hearing disabilities, which amounted to (30) participants from the Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Charitable Society of the Deaf and Dumb in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The article concluded that hearing-impaired prefer "videos with subtitles in sign language" in the first place with 63.3%, followed by "sign …


The Role Of Digital Media In Enhancing The Educational Quality Among School And University Teachers In Hebron Governorate, Mohammed Habes, Muammar Yousef Al-Owaiwi, Marcelle Issa Al Jwaniat, Farhan Al Olaimat Mar 2023

The Role Of Digital Media In Enhancing The Educational Quality Among School And University Teachers In Hebron Governorate, Mohammed Habes, Muammar Yousef Al-Owaiwi, Marcelle Issa Al Jwaniat, Farhan Al Olaimat

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The study aimed to identify the role of digital media platforms of the educational efficiency in schools and universities in the Hebron Governorate: “Glory International School and Hebron University". The relevant institution consists of n=52 individuals from the available sample, and the researchers conducted interviews with different specialists. The study reached diverse results, the most important of which are: 47.1% use digital media platforms in education on a permanent basis. It was also found that 41.2% use specialized scientific sites, while the percentage of YouTube users reached 31.4%, the percentage of those who use the educational institution’s website was 17.6%, …


Coverage Framing Of Arab Affairs In Oriented Channels Websites In Arabic: Comparative Analytical Study Of Bbc And Dw News Websites, Hatem Alawneh, Areen Al-Zou'bi Feb 2023

Coverage Framing Of Arab Affairs In Oriented Channels Websites In Arabic: Comparative Analytical Study Of Bbc And Dw News Websites, Hatem Alawneh, Areen Al-Zou'bi

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

The aim of this study is to find out the most important topics covered by the Arabiclanguage news websites about Arab affairs, and the media sources that these websites rely on for its news and coverage. The study attempts to identify the nature of media framing that the websites use when dealing with Arab affairs. The survey method was used and the study also used the comparative analysis method to identify similarities and differences in the coverage. Three months were selected from year of (2017) as a sample. The number of news stories analyzed was (1200) news stories. The study …


The Potential Effects Of Metaverse Technology On The Arab Media: Media Experts’ Perspective, Sozan Al-Qalini, Yaser Abu-Al-Qasem Feb 2023

The Potential Effects Of Metaverse Technology On The Arab Media: Media Experts’ Perspective, Sozan Al-Qalini, Yaser Abu-Al-Qasem

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

The director of formerly Facebook announced in October 2021 a plan to develop Metaverse technology that combines virtual reality on the Internet, allowing any user to communicate virtually with people and things far away as if they were standing next to him/her.The opinions of media specialists about this issue were divided between supporters and opponents even though this technology needs ten years at least to be mass distributed, according to experts from the company and its founder. Arab media is not far from being impacted by this technology, considering the rapid digital transformation. Therefore, this prospective study determines the expected …


The Role Of Jordanian Elites In Disseminating Royal Messages From The Viewpoint Of A Sample Of Opinion Leaders, Aula Hassan Abdel Razaq Alshurbajie, Kamel Khurshid Murad Jan 2023

The Role Of Jordanian Elites In Disseminating Royal Messages From The Viewpoint Of A Sample Of Opinion Leaders, Aula Hassan Abdel Razaq Alshurbajie, Kamel Khurshid Murad

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The study aimed to identify the role of opinion leaders in transmitting royal communication messages from the Throne Foundation to the public. The study adopted the descriptive-survey approach, using a questionnaire consisting of (83) items, and the sample of the study reached (76) as an available sample from opinion leaders. The study concluded that the most prominent characters (persons) called for royal meetings were the media professionals and, heads of government and councils. The most prominent communication messages were "a concerted effort to overcome circumstances." But the dilemma in understanding the contents of the messages were the weakness of opinion …


Attitudes Of Jordanian University Youth Towards Social Networking Sites In Raising Awareness Of The Phenomenon Of Societal Violence, Marcelle Issa Al Jwaniat, Dana Jamal Sharaireh Jan 2023

Attitudes Of Jordanian University Youth Towards Social Networking Sites In Raising Awareness Of The Phenomenon Of Societal Violence, Marcelle Issa Al Jwaniat, Dana Jamal Sharaireh

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The study aimed at exploring the attitudes of Jordanian university youth towards digital media applications to raise awareness of the phenomenon of societal violence, where the researcher adopted the descriptive methodology, by developing an online survey as a study tool. The survey was distributed to a non-random sample (the Snowball sample) consisting of 305 university students in three universities (Yarmouk University, University of Jordan and Mutah University). Two media theories were used in the current study: the Media Dependency Theory as a main theory and the Expectancy-value theory as a supporting theory. The study found several results, the most important …


The Communication Strategies In Arab Digital Diplomacy... Adoption And Relevancy, Najm Abed Alhatimi Aleessawi Jan 2023

The Communication Strategies In Arab Digital Diplomacy... Adoption And Relevancy, Najm Abed Alhatimi Aleessawi

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The article aimed to identify the level of Arab public diplomacy's employment of its communication strategies via the Twitter platform in presenting its political and diplomatic topics and activities. It adopted the descriptive analytical method and the content analysis tool for (1271) tweets from the accounts of Arab foreign ministries on the digital communication platform “Twitter”, for the period from December 1, 2019, to January 31, 2020, using the method of a comprehensive survey of tweets from four Arab countries (Morocco, Saudi Arabia). Jordan, Iraq). The article concluded that security issues ranked first in the tweets of the Jordanian Ministry …


Journalists In The Sultanate Of Oman And Social Media: Survey Study On Uses And Challenges, Abdullah Khamis Al-Kindi, Suad Surur Al-Baluashi Jan 2023

Journalists In The Sultanate Of Oman And Social Media: Survey Study On Uses And Challenges, Abdullah Khamis Al-Kindi, Suad Surur Al-Baluashi

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

This study aims to identify the extent of using social media among journalists in the Omani Arabic dailies, understand and recognize the connection of using social media in workplace as well as to identify the challenges that might affect journalists use of social media. The study adopting a descriptive survey method to all the data through formalization and distribution of questionnaires. The sample of this study is comprises of (176) journalists who are working in daily newspapers in the Sultanate of Oman namely: Alwatan, Oman, Al Shabiba, AZamn and Al roya. The study concludes a set of results; most notablythose …


The Journalistic Treatment Of Daesh's Topics In The Jordanian Newspapers: An Analytical Study, Ali Nejadat, Hatem Alawneh Jan 2023

The Journalistic Treatment Of Daesh's Topics In The Jordanian Newspapers: An Analytical Study, Ali Nejadat, Hatem Alawneh

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

This study aims to examine how the Jordanian daily newspapers cover topics that are related to the terrorist group: Daesh. The study is descriptive and used content analysis approach to provide an accurate description of the topics that have addressed Daesh in the Jordanian daily newspapers. The population of the study consisted of all Jordanian daily newspapers, while the sample composed of local Jordanian Newspapers (Al Rai, Al Ghad, and Al Sabeel). By using the industrial week, the study came up with these results: - In terms of trends, Al Ghad provided more supported trends on the war against Daesh …