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Media development in Syria: the Janus-faced nature of foreign aid assistance

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This article intends to provide responses to some of the many unanswered questions about the making and the transformation of the uprising in Syria by exploring a new avenue of research: media development aid. Most academic interest has been oriented towards the role that the new media played at the time of the uprising; insufficient interest, by contrast, has been directed to the development of the sector in the years predating it. What emerges from this article is that the Syrian media landscape was strongly supported by international development aid during the years prior to the outbreak of the uprising of 2011. By looking at the complex structure of media aid architecture and investigating the practices and programmes implemented by some representative organisations, this article reflects on the field of media development as a new modus operandi of the West (the EU and US especially), to promote democracy through alternative and non-collateral, bottom-up support.

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  • Billie Jeanne Brownlee, 2017. "Media development in Syria: the Janus-faced nature of foreign aid assistance," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(10), pages 2276-2294, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:38:y:2017:i:10:p:2276-2294
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1333420
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    1. Jacob Nyarko & Eric Opoku Mensah & Basil Hamusokwe, 2020. "Donor Aid and Private Investment: Their Interplay With Media Development," SAGE Open, , vol. 10(2), pages 21582440209, May.

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