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Langohr, Vickie. "Using the Web to Study Middle Eastern Newspapers and Activists" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC, Feb 18, 2006 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p124359_index.html>

Langohr, V. , 2006-02-18 "Using the Web to Study Middle Eastern Newspapers and Activists" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p124359_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: As a comparativist teaching an introductory course on the Middle East, I have used the Internet to develop assignments which required students to read about and analyze the writings and activities of either English-language Israeli and Arab newspapers available on the web or the websites of Arab or Israeli activist groups. Both of these assignments succeeded in allowing students to engage more directly with Middle Eastern political activism and discourse as articulated by Middle Easterners themselves. The assignment on the activist websites also pushed students to think like political activists, by requiring them to delve beyond the mere content of a group’s program to analyze how arguments are constructed, slogans manipulated, and audiences engaged. The assignments do, however, pose questions of their own that need to be addressed. Middle Eastern activists presumably develop English-language websites in part to secure foreign support, and examining who and how these groups appeal to Western audiences can be a good way of addressing the influence of Western citizens and governments in Middle East politics. English-language newspapers in the Arab world often differ from their Arabic-language counterparts in important ways; they often enjoy more freedom and experience less censorship than Arabic-language papers, and in some (but not all) cases these newspapers’ news sections also adhere to higher standards of evidence than Arabic-language counterparts.

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