Omar Al-Ghazzi
@omar_alghazzi
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Associate Professor @MediaLSE; digital journalism, collective memory, war & media, MENA | Co-Editor: Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication | he/him
London, England
Joined September 2016
New publication! 'The Problem of Top-Down Techno-Centrism in Pan-Arab News' shows how pan-Arab news orgs pursue datafication & digitisation to serve state funders’ media prestige, with little concern to journalists, audiences. w/ @abeernaji @LSEMiddleEast
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This is on us, on @Keir_Starmer, we supply & aid this, our national broadcaster has been in thrall to it. We made a film about these attacks; @BBCNews wouldn’t run it. Impunity false equivalence & cowardice leads here; please do not repeat any lines that these people were Hamas
Live on air… Israel bombs civil defense teams as they try to retrieve the body of journalist Hossam Al-Masri, killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital. Ongoing crimes before the eyes of the entire world.
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ما الدافع وراء محركات منطق و ثقافة التكنولوجيا الرقمية في الأخبار العربية؟ورقة بحثية جديده لعبير النجار و @omar_alghazzi عن"إشكالية المركزية الكنولوجية المفروضة من القمة الى القاعدة في وسائل الاعلام العربية" https://t.co/xgs9bg7yJB
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I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on @allegra_lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'. https://t.co/2JDbPcAnMA
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How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and speech in
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I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on @allegra_lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'. https://t.co/2JDbPcAnMA
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How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and speech in
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Historian, famous for his conception of the “sites of memory”, the creator of the magazine “Le Débat” died on June 2, at the age of 93. https://t.co/ItG0N9Jlvg
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Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.
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What drives the logic and culture of digitisation in pan-#Arab news? A new paper by @omar_alghazzi and Abeer Al-Najjar shows the prevalence of a top-down techno-centric approach in the pan-Arab news industry. https://t.co/xgs9bg7yJB
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We are recruiting two LSE fellows @MediaLSE (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply!
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Here is the link to the second post: LSE Fellow in Media and Communications (Global Media & Communications)
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We are recruiting two LSE fellows @MediaLSE (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply!
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I am pleased to share my new academic article on the complexity of home in exile, published in the Journal of Refugee Studies at the University of Oxford. The paper delves into the ambivalence of exiles and highlights 4 dilemmas they encounter. To read 👇 https://t.co/5K40mCMlRh
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@claumellado @SWaisbord89926 @i_abusharif @eborgesrey @nalobaidli @ZahraHankir @cpaschyn @allaguiIlhem Panel 3, Social Media Influencers and Self-Media, explores the transformative role of influencers and self-media in journalism. @omar_alghazzi, @radionerd76, and @fangkc examine how influencers, as opinion leaders, shape societal trends and consumer behavior in a conversation
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@omar_alghazzi (@MediaLSE), Tanja Bosch (@UCT_news), and Kecheng Fang (@CUHKofficial) will examine the role of social media influencers as opinion leaders and the ethical dilemmas surrounding self-media platforms at @NUQatar’s Rawabet conference, Journalism in the Global South:
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Our term 2 seminar series kicks off this Thursday 16 January with @omar_alghazzi from LSE. He will be speaking about "Anti-Ottoman meta history and gendered imaginaries of sovereignty in Syria." Join us! 5pm, RG01 in SOAS. @Terminalias @SOASanthro @SOASDevelopment
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Day 3 of our @IAS_NUQ 2025 Theory & Method Winter School: Arab & Southern Digitalities begins with a Masterclass on Historical Methods with @omar_alghazzi on the beautiful @NUQatar campus.
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We are excited to kick off the 2025 Theory and Method Winter School at #IAS_NUQ! Focused on Arab and Southern Digitalities, this 3-day workshop features master classes by @rahul_mukh, @radionerd76, and @omar_alghazzi. Organized by #IAS_NUQ with support from @CarnegieCorp.
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In BBC coverage, mentions of Israeli and Palestinians deaths competed for space since 7th October. That's despite far more Palestinian deaths. There's one exception - a huge spike in the mentions of Palestinian deaths in early April. The reason for this should disturb you.
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“to double population” is an interesting way to say building colonies on an illegally occupied territory and the internationally defined war crime of transferring citizens to an occupied territory
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