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Al Jazeera Awards £150K to Cambridge University for Research Project

Al Jazeera Media Network has awarded CIRMENA £150,000 for a research project on media and politics in Tunisia. The principal investigator on the University of Cambridge – Al Jazeera Center for Studies Media Research Project is Dr Roxane Farmanfarmaian, an affiliated lecturer at POLIS.

The one year project, which began on August 12, 2013, will examine the relationship between a liberated media and the new political environment in post-Ben Ali Tunisia. Investigation will focus on how conventional as well as social media disseminate critical issues to the public; the intent is to map the development of political narrative in the year following the revolution. Structure, function and agency will be analysed as the new political and media environments interact.

A workshop in Doha, in conjunction with the AJCS, will review the initial findings of the project, with final conclusions presented in a Cambridge-based conference in July 2014.

Please see further information on the conference and the publications.   

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