The Syrian private media and discourse of the development of the Syrian national economy

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dc.contributor.advisorWilkins, Karin Gwinn, 1962-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMohammad, Mohammaden
dc.creatorCaldwell, Leah Monicalen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-26T14:34:35Zen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-26T14:34:41Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:20:27Z
dc.date.available2010-10-26T14:34:35Zen
dc.date.available2010-10-26T14:34:41Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:20:27Z
dc.date.issued2010-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2010en
dc.date.updated2010-10-26T14:34:41Zen
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dc.description.abstractIn 2001, Syria opened its media outlets to private ownership for the first time in over forty years. This thesis conducts a critical discourse analysis of the economic coverage of the sole Syrian political daily newspaper al-Watan and asks how media liberalization in Syria is more so emblematic of pro-market economic reforms as opposed to media reform. In this sense, it is the economic content of al-Watan that signifies how a private media outlet – under the guiding force of “red lines” and other regulatory mechanisms, yet financially “liberated” via advertising revenue and wealthy regime-friendly backers – can demonstrate its utility to the regime by providing a reiteration of its social-market economic policies all the while existing as a public embodiment of the regime’s willingness to embrace a marketized Syrian society. Simply put, al-Watan is a perfect vehicle for propagating the regime’s gradualist pro-market reforms in the public sphere.en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1078en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectSyriaen
dc.subjectMediaen
dc.subjectPrivate mediaen
dc.subjectPrivately-owned mediaen
dc.subjectOfficial mediaen
dc.subjectCensorshipen
dc.subjectInfitahen
dc.subjectSyrian economyen
dc.subjectSyrian economic openingen
dc.subjectDamascus Springen
dc.subjectSyrian economic transitionen
dc.subjectBashar al-Asaden
dc.subjectDevelopmenten
dc.subjectSyria discourse analysisen
dc.titleThe Syrian private media and discourse of the development of the Syrian national economyen
dc.type.genrethesisen

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