5ème séance du séminaire « Perspectives et territoires de la recherche au Proche-Orient »

Intervenants :

Donatella Della Rata (University of Copenhagen-The Danish Institute in Damascus)

Enrico De Angelis (University of Bologna-Ifpo)
Syrian TV drama analysis will be framed in the media industry perspective which looks at TV texts and contents as strongly related to the economics and policies of cultural production. Doing ethnography of Syrian TV drama within this framework means to combine an inter-disciplinary approach with a multi-methodological project.

Can/Should we consider the editorial policy of Syrian news websites as an ongoing process of "negotiation" between traditional media production in Syria and the far-reaching worldwide changes in the nature of journalism in the Internet age? Are approaches utilizing standard economic models of analysis of any help in understanding Arab media, or do we need a more culture-centric approach in the age of transnational information ?

Ifpo Damas (Abou Roumaneh), Salon du 2ème étage.

Donatella Della Ratta is a PhD fellow in the New Islamic Public Sphere Program at Copenhagen University in Denmark (Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies) and at the Danish Institute in Damascus (Syria). Her doctoral study focuses on the production and distribution of Syrian TV drama. Donatella is a contributor to several books on the Arab TV industry and the author of two monographs on regional Arab satellite channels. She blogs on Arab media at: http://mediaoriente.com.

Enrico De Angelis is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bologna-Forli University (Italy). Entitled "The Articulation of Political Communication Cultures in the Arab Near East: the Case of Syria", Enrico's 2009 doctoral dissertation was based on extensive field-work in the country.