Essential Features of Media Discourse in Egypt
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2022-10-1-129-137
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the latest trends in the development of media discourse in the Arab Republic of Egypt (ARE). The history of the formation of the Egyptian media is considered with an emphasis on changes in state media policy after the revolutionary events of 2011 and 2013. The main provisions of the legislation regulating the mass media and its impact on the press are analyzed. The author provides statistical data and expert judgments characterizing the effectiveness of Egyptian mass media, and leads the independent NGOs assessments of the observance of the principle of freedom of speech in this Middle Eastern country. The main reasons for the popularity of foreign alternative sources of information are listed.
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About the Author
I. N. Vodyanov
Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Arab Republic of Egypt;
Institute of Public Administration and Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Egypt
Egypt
attaché of the Embassy, 12611, Egypt, Cairo, Giza st., 95;
post-graduate student of the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow
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Vodyanov I.N. Essential Features of Media Discourse in Egypt. Communicology. 2022;10(1):129-137. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2022-10-1-129-137
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