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Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, has emerged as a political player in the events following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, and the ensuing war being waged in Afghanistan. More than an agency reporting the news as it happens, Al-Jazeera (Arabic for "the island") has access to the Arab World and is "scooping" the western media conglomerates. It has emerged as a political actor on the world stage with its exclusive access to Osama Bin Laden and members of the Taliban. Its reputation is burnishing quickly through its daily exposure on CNN in the U.S., even as it strives to maintain its independence as an international free press news network.
The objective of this book is to shed light on the background of the Al-Jazeera network, how it started, how it operates, the kinds of programs it broadcasts, its effects on Arab viewers, the reactions of the West and Arab states, and its implications for the future of news broadcasting in the Middle East and its struggle for public opinion in the Arab world.
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It is not easy.......2006-10-19
Al Jazeera is giving us a vivid and moving picture of a New Arab World in the making. There is no way to go back in times. This media channel is succeeding to keep one step ahead of many others advancing, foreign or local, TVs.
Live transmissions are notably courageous in their way struggling so hard to persuade local (and influential) governments to let them work into the `heart' of the stories being anchored, against the background of petty local political bickering and futility.
It is not easy, but the beauty about it is that it is also challenging, and a source of pride to millions of Arabs
Very enlightening.......2003-01-25
Al-Jazeera is the all-Arabic TV news channel which burst on to the international scene in the wake of September 11 and the war in Afghanistan. Its unfettered access to that country during the war and its showing of the bin Laden tapes made it an automatic force on the world stage.Based in the Gulf state of Qatar, it came from the remnants of the BBC Arabic TV service. With the help of startup money from the Emir of Qatar, Al-Jazeera was to have complete editorial independence.In a part of the world where the press is usually government controlled, Al-Jazeera is not afraid to get specific and name names. At one time or another, it has been criticized or condemned by seemingly every government in the Arab world, for broadcasting things that the local government would prefer not be broadcast. Every local editorial of condemnation and every denial of press credentials to Al-Jazeera reporters just increases its audience all over the world by satellite.One of the things that Al-Jazeera is most known for is its talk shows, especially a nightly, two-hour show called The Opposite Direction. Two guests appear on the show, with totally opposite opinions on a certain issue, and with help from live phone calls, the sparks fly. Even by American TV standards, things get pretty loud and lively. Arab governments have noticed, and have begun imitating the format on their tame and boring government TV channels.Even though Al-Jazeera is an Arab TV channel, it has tried very hard to be impartial, hosting members of the Bush Administration, after September 11, and government officials from Israel.For those who want to decide for themselves if Al-Jazeera is a legitimate news broadcaster or a terrorist mouthpiece, this book is highly recommended. It's comprehensive, clearly written and is quite enlightening.
Raving Reviews Accurate.......2002-09-10
All the reviews I've read for this book have been unequivocally complimentary. One newspaper said it should be required reading for Bush's entire cabinet! Quite bold, but rightly so. After reading this book, I came to the realization that everything Al-Jazeera is courageous enough to air, my own country's media is petrified of. I wonder why our government is so afraid of a democratic Arab world? While the dozens of titles coming out on the Middle East are regurgitating the same history and concepts, this book is a refreshing new look at a MODERN Middle East, not a primitive and orientalized one.
A modern, independent, entirely Arab television news network.......2002-06-06
Collaboratively written by Egyptian born Middle East journalist Mohammed El-Nawawy and Middle East media expert Adel Iskandar, Al-Jazeera: How The Free Arab News Network Scooped The World And Changed The Middle East is a fascinating and informed history. This is a superbly presented account of Al-Jazeera, a modern, independent, entirely Arab television news network based in Qatar, which since the September 11 attacks, gained high profile prominence through daily exposure on CNN. This is also the compelling story of Al-Jazeera's struggle to keep its independence as an international news network, beholden to none. Overall, Al-Jazeera is an engaging, unique, detailed study of the origin of the Al-Jazeera network, its broadcasts, its effect on Arab viewers, and its struggle for a free press. Al-Jazeera is very highly recommended for Journalism Studies and Mideast Studies supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections.
Review from one of Al-Jazeera's audiences.......2002-05-12
This is a great book and I highly recommend it for everyone striving to know about the Arab media from an objective perspective. The book will inform you about the Arabs' struggle for freedom of speech through an unbiased Arab network that is not subject to the control of any government. The authors have succesfully portrayed the true picture of the Arab media scene through Arab eyes.
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Channel Surfing.......2003-05-14
I found this book to be rather interesting and fresh look at the war and the TV coverage. It is also interesting given the current events in the Gulf. Reading a book like this you really get a good feel for how countries look after themselves in international affairs. The book takes a bit of a dissenting look at the war with a cautious eye at the news media. Basically the author does not have a lot of good things to say about President Bush and his administration. There are some conspiracy theories floated in the book, but not enough to make the document fall into the "unbelievable rant" category.
The overriding direction the book takes is the argument that instead of debating the issues of public concern surrounding the war, the mainstream media uncritically promoted the policies of the Bush administration and military. The author goes on to try and prove that the media was managed by the US government in one of the best-managed media propaganda campaigns in history. The author certainly believed this theory; it was just that I as the reader was not convinced that there was the large conspiracy.
It just seamed to me that the issues the author highlighted could also be explained as the media needing to fill 24 hours a day of breaking news so they grasp at anything they can get. Also the claims he makes that the new outlets were in the Bush back pockets because they were so excited to be at war, I came away thinking it was just natural to be excited when reporting about such issues as a war. The one complaint I do have is the authors almost debilitating hatred for all things large and bureaucratic, he dislikes the government and big media. The problem is that it tended to shade his writing and I found myself skipping past some of the nastier comments or sections. This took away from what otherwise was an interesting and unique look at the war and the TV coverage it received.
Recommended - especially timely with Iraqi War.......2003-04-16
I found this book on my girlfriend's bookshelf (she had it for a class at UT while in undergrad), and I really enjoyed it and have recommended it to many people. Kellner brings a lot of interesting footage from the first Persian Gulf War to light and puts it in historical context. I read it before the start of the war in Iraq, and felt much more educated and objective when watching the countless hours of footage from all the major news networks. Kellner accurately questions the objectivity of our news sources, news anchors, and the media conglomerates that own them. Any person serious about perserving a democracy in which the public is accurately informed should give it a read.
Great discussion of media coverage during the Gulf War........1999-04-27
This book is an important contribution to the clearer comprehension of media coverage of a major US foreign intervention. Douglas Kellner has unearthed some rather ugly truths that make democracy and freedom of the press appear mere illusions. Kellner analyzes "official" media presentations and compares them to more reliable sources, producing a nuanced treatment of US imperialism in the Persian Gulf. An excellent source for critical perspective and analysis, Kellner consistently poses the important questions pressing politicians and policy-makers for answers.
Kellner leaves the reader to continue questioning fundamental issues regarding foreign policy and how our blind acceptance of the professed goals further the power of our interventionist state. I highly recommend any of Douglas Kellner's books.
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Television Coverage of the Middle East (Communication and Information Science)
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This volume brings together original analyses about how the Middle East is depicted on U.S. television news. It analyzes some of the most intensely reported news stories of the past decade. Its revealing studies also show how broadcasting on Middle Ease issues has changed in recent years. These studies offer important and provocative findings regarding crucual issues in Middle East coverage.
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A Violent World: TV News Images of Middle Eastern Terror and War
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A Violent World analyzes images on global CNN, Israeli IBA, and Palestinian PATV that contribute to how the current violence in the Middle East is framed. Nitzan Ben-Shaul draws from critical media theory and approaches out of cinema studies to examine how dominant ideologies are embedded in mainstream TV news. He focuses on the American elites' global ideology and the conflicting dominant national-peripheral ideologies of Israeli-Palestinian elites, and his in-depth study further offers a new model of analysis for contemporary television news.
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Title: Al Jazeera under the gun: sanctions against the network send a "troubling message" for press freedom in the Middle East.(Drop Cap)
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From the supplier: The Saudi Arabia-owned media appear to be exerting their influence over the entire Arab world of 200 million people. Arabs are concerned that the Saudis will control television just as they had controlled newspapers. The image portrayed would be male-dominated and conservative. The Saudi families have much money to invest, although they have not profited much yet from their television station ownership.
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Title: The kingdom and the power. (television news in the Middle East)
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Title: The limits of the parachute: many news organizations rushed reporters from far-flung locales to the Middle East when fighting erupted between Israel and Hezbollah. But there's no substitute for coverage by correspondents based in a region and knowledgeable about its history and culture.
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Title: The new Arab Media phenomenon: Qatar's Al-Jazeera.
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Civil Society and Media in Global Crises: Representing Distant Violence
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Excellent textbook.......2006-06-21
As my headline suggests, this book is more suitable for the classroom environment than for the professional systems analyst or systems developer.
What the author did was to basically take the Zachman Framwork with all the columns and rows and explain every possible combination by using the usual modelling techniques (UML, DFDs, IDEF0, ERMs, CRUD matrix etc.). You therefore get a very - and I really mean VERY - broad overview over many of the current, state-of-the-art methods available to systems analysts (from data normalization to analyzing objectivied relationships).
I recommend you to read this book if you are someone from the academic world who wants to get a very good overview of the Zachman Framework. Especially if you are specifically interested in data analysis you will find this book to be very helpful.
aggreed there is no OOA.......2005-08-28
OOA is some "super magic" that uml people found it for commercial reasons.As Mr.Hay mentions there is no OOA.there is only "analysis" of the bussiness.
I am a bussiness owner and a coder for a long long time.The concept that david hay is talking about will take developers life time period to understand.
The most simple explanation is for the reviewer to look at his/heer database tables and see the replication places as they had no abstraction in mind when they were coding the "thing"(prefered design over analysis).
David Hay's,Len Silverstone's and Martin Fowlers(analysis patterns) should be read over and over again.it is like swimming u do not pick it up in the first try.
PS:These books are for an analists who can understand the meaning of polymorfism
PS2:By the way OO people even could not agree about compostion over aggregation ,method over operation.Keep in mind UML is a design tool should not be used like a "golden hammer"
It will broaden your horizons, but it is not a cookbook........2003-11-15
_Requirements Analysis_ is just the opposite of a book like Craig Larman's _Applying UML and Patterns_ or Ed Yourdon's _Modern Structured Analysis_. Both of those books--in fact, most books on analysis--present a single methodology and a single set of tools and notations, then walk you through the steps of the analysis process according to DeMarco or according to Jacobson or whatever.
David Hay is after larger fish in this book, or at least more fish: in these 400 pages, you will find a survey of more techniques and models than you probably could have dreamed of, from the very old to the very new, from the flashy to the obscure: data flow diagrams, UML, Object-Role Modeling, cybernetics, business rules, IDEF0, and on and on. This book will teach you a little bit about a whole lot of analysis techniques and what they can accomplish.
The material is all organized and discussed from the point of view of the Zachman Framework, a beautiful and expansive system that shows us how various techniques fit in to the "total picture" of the who, what, when, where, why and how of enterprises and information systems. It gives us a broader perspective, and often shows us where we are focusing too much on one or two aspects of a system, to the detriment of the others.
But this book is not a cookbook or a procedural guide to performing analysis. There is very little prescriptive advice, and relatively little on the nuts and bolts of what you should do and when. I don't want to suggest that is a shortcoming: it is intrinsic in the very nature of a survey-type book. If you have done some analysis work or studied one or more particular methodologies, this book will give you context and perspective and introduce you to new possibilities you probably weren't even aware of before.
But if you are approaching analysis for the first time, you need guidance more than you need options, and you may find this book more confusing than useful. You might, instead, want to look at _Applying UML and Patterns_(Larman) if you are approaching analysis from an object-oriented programming perspective; _Modern Structured Analysis_ (Yourdon) if you are coming from a more traditional Data-Flow and Entity-Relationship shop; or _Mastering the Requirements Process_ (Robertson)for a more generalized, but still procedural, perspective on requirements definition. Then, in six months or a year, open Mr. Hay's book and feel the horizons rushing back from your eyes. This is basically what I have done, and I'm very happy I did. David Hay has given me a larger context at a time when I can start to appreciate it, and new options at a time that they can be useful to me.
I should point out that I feel the book is not without its shortcomings.
--Mr. Hay gives pretty short shrift to Use Cases, which are emerging as a really useful technique for discovering and capturing functional requirements. This book talks about use cases, but clearly considers them of secondary value, burying them in a fairly obscure corner of the Framework. Craig Larman, Alistair Cockburn, Ivar Jacobson and Doug Rosenberg all have good titles out that place Use Cases in a more central role.
--Certain object-oriented techniques seem to have a pretty low opinion of Analysis work, or call things "analysis" that are more properly considered design. Mr. Hay makes some good points in response, but I can't help feeling he's going a little too far when he says things like "there is no such thing as object-oriented analysis." No less a figure in the world of methodology than Ed Yourdon would seem to disagree, unless the title of his book, "Object-Oriented Analysis," is some kind of very subtle joke. You may want to pick up an OO title or two, and see what conclusions you come to.
--Last of all, I found the treatment of some of the areas of the Framework to be esoteric and difficult to follow. Most notable here is the discussion of business rules that makes up the book's treatment of the Motivation, or "why," column. I realize that business rules thinking is still in its infancy, but the presentation in the book is too nebulous, academic and abstract to come to any kind of grips with--it was like trying to learn the UML by looking at the "meta-model" documents. Another example is in the People, or "who," column, which consists of a very academic treatment of the science of "cybernetics." Intriguing, but darned if I got much of practical use out of it. Shouldn't the People column have something to do with characterizing and categorizing users, their preferences, environments, levels of experience? Perhaps all the stuff on cybernetics _does_ that, but it was all a little too rarefied for me to follow.
In summary, this was a very valuable book for me. I'm a better analyst for having read it, and I have a whole list of new things to think about and learn about (including the above-mentioned business rules and cybernetics). I can't recommend this as a _first_ book on analysis, but I can heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to learn _more_ about analysis.
Giving the Zachman framework a new lease on life.......2003-04-16
'Rather than reviewing requirement analysis from the perspective of a particular implementation of technology, this book views it as fundamentally an architecture process. This books premise is that requirements analysis is the translation of a set of business owners' view of the enterprise to a single, comprehensive architectural view of that enterprise'
David inspired by the Zachman framework shows how various methodologies and techniques can be organised for a omprehensive requirements analysis approach leading to an architecture solution. This book really brings forward the briliance of the Zachman framework. It gives a new perspective on Zachman and brings the framework back into the contempory enterprise strategies framework.
David shows not only how to avoid the common mistake of building an architecture from a single business view but also how to integrate various views into a common architectural view.
The book keeps to it focus on "Requirement analysis" and the reader is not really helped to go beyond the requirement analysis phase into the design and implementation phases. A good reference to have for people with an appetite for enterprise architecture strategies
Good on data modeling, but little else.......2003-03-20
I had a good book on OO analysis and the UML, but though it weak on data modeling and business rules. So I went looking...
I read the 4 reviews on this page and purchased the book. Given the reviews and the fact that it was just published, I thought I would be getting a book that unifies a broad sweep of modern analysis techniques (OO, UML, Data Modeling, Design Patterns, Business Rules, Requirements Gathering Techniques, Iterative Development, etc.).
On the contrary, I received a book that is 90% data modeling biased and steeped-in analysis techniques of the pre-OO era, such as data flow diagrams (people still use these?). This looks like a book I had in school 10 years ago.
There are passing and, at best, cursory references to UML modeling approaches, but that is all that is in this book with respect to modern OO approaches.
There is absolutely nothing said with regards to Design Patterns nor an iterative approach to building systems and mitigating risk. I find this lack of coverage absolutely incredible in a software requirements analysis book published in 2003. Unbelievable!
Ten years ago, this book might have been considered a good benchmark. Not today. This author's sole idea of architecture is the data model and functional decomposition. Ugh.
If you are weak on relational data modeling, this book has redeeming value. Otherwise, if you are trying to figure-out how to elaborate requirements and transform them into a working OO system using UML, Design Patterns, and an iterative approach, I highly recommend Craig Larman's top-notch "Applying UML and Patterns: ...". It really sets the standard.
The Larman book is weak on data modeling and business rules - which I thought Hay's book would address better (and is why I bought it sight unseen). It does, but at the expense of everything else.
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