Yazan Badran

Yazan Badran
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel | VUB · Department of Communication Sciences

Doctor of Media and Communication Studies

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Additional affiliations
October 2021 - present
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Position
  • Visiting professor
October 2022 - present
Research Foundation Flanders
Position
  • PostDoc Position
October 2016 - September 2020
Research Foundation Flanders
Position
  • PhD Student
Education
October 2016 - October 2021
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Field of study
  • Communication Studies
September 2013 - September 2015
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Field of study
  • Communication Studies
April 2007 - March 2013
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Field of study
  • Computer Science

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Publications (25)
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This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the precarization of journalistic work by looking at the case of Syrian exiled journalists in Turkey, whose professional and personal lifeworlds are underpinned by multiple layers of precarity. The article builds on data collected during a 3-month-long period of participant observations at the newsroo...
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The decade following the 2010-2011 Arab uprisings saw a flourishing of emerging media organisations across the region. The most recognisable examples of these new independent media actors include Enab Baladi in Syria, Mada Masr in Egypt, and Inkyfada in Tunisia. However, this phenomenon comprises a much more diverse set of actors from small-scale a...
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Tashbih, in Syrian vernacular, has long referred to a diverse constellation of practices and acts—invariably illegal and often articulated with violence or the threat of violence—perpetrated by individuals and groups, the Shabbiha, with deep (often kin- based) ties to the Baathist regime of President Hafez al-Assad and later his son, Bashar al-Assa...
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This paper focuses on the (in)direct tools of governmental bureaucracy used to control journalistic work in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). It calls for understanding media capture not only through structural-level consequences, but also through the methods used to create an environment of instability and unsafety. To make sense of these proces...
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Following the fall of ISIS in March 2019, thousands of women affiliated with the movement, along with their children, were brought to Kurdish-controlled camps in north-eastern Syria. Since then, an international, political, and juridical debate raged on regarding the repatriation of Western female detainees in the camps and their children. This pap...
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Animation has been a ubiquitous part of popular and visual culture since at least the end of the 19th century and has evolved and transformed as a medium in tandem with cinema, television, and computer graphics. Its quintessential hybridity and dynamism as a visual form—essentially combining the age-old art of drawing with evolving techniques of mo...
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This chapter examines the production, circulation, and interaction with images as practices that can be thought of under the conceptual frame of archival work. We believe that the post 2011 Syrian context constitutes a particularly interesting laboratory when it comes to discussing the nature, aims, opportunities, and limits of contemporary digital...
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The political economy of post-2011 emerging independent media in the MENA region is intricately entangled with the growth in media development (or assistance) flows to the region following the Arab uprisings. This chapter will take stock of the growing literature examining these media development interventions and the complex relationships they hav...
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كان للنزاع الذي دام طيلة تسع سنوات في سوريا أثر مدمر على نسيجها الاجتماعي وحياتها الاقتصادية وسلامة أراضيها، وعلى وجه الخصوص، أدى التفتت المناطقي الذي ألمَّ بها إلى تفكك البيئة الإعلامية التي كانت تحت سيطرة محكمة من قبل النظام السوري قبل النزاع، وعلى الرغم من أن الأقاليم التي بقيت تحت سيطرة الحكومة المركزية تعكس -بدرجة أو بأخرى- مواصلة المنطق الشمو...
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Since 2011, tens of new small-scale associative media organisations have sprung up in different towns and regions of Tunisia. Their proliferation has allowed for new voices to emerge both on a local and a national (collective) level. They have also come to represent a coherent third sector in the Tunisian media sphere alongside public and private m...
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This chapter aims to re-examine the complex relationship between social media and contentious politics following the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and Syria. The chapter explores the contingent, differentiated, and contradictory roles social media played in each of these cases. The authors combine critical theoretical approaches to the internet and situa...
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This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country’s media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, 'Arab Media Systems' brings together contributions from experts in the field of media in the M...
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This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country’s media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contributions from experts in the field of media in the Mid...
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The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of WWII when phenomena as diverse as urbanization, internal and international migration, and peasant societies attracted the attention of scholars working on the region. The Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and t...
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This article aims to investigate the regulatory, financial and political environment negotiated by oppositional Syrian media operating in exile in Turkey, as well as to identify the main tactics used by them in negotiating between these constraints to ensure their survival in an increasingly difficult environment. As the war in Syria increased in i...
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An interview might be a rather unorthodox format for an epilogue for a book of such overarching and ambitious scope. However, if the preoccupation with voice is one of the fundamental concerns of this work, then a dialogic interview is a fitting topic vehicle to explore its workings. Another fundamental concern for this handbook is a growing discou...
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The 2011 uprisings in the Middle East have deeply shaken the traditional media landscape in the region. They have also reinvigorated scholarly interest in the role of the media in the region's conflicts. Alternative media has emerged as an important avenue for investigation-in particular with resistance and counterhegemonic narratives. However, the...
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The central claim in Adrienne Russell’s latest book, Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power, is that a fundamental shift in the dynamics of our contemporary media environment has been taking place over the past two decades. This shift, both in the form and site of media power, owes much to the emergence of a new generation of activists and me...
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Two overarching metaphors appear repeatedly in Nico Carpentier’s The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation. The first is that of the knot, referring to Carpentier’s ambitious attempt to theorize the entangled nature of the material and the discursive components of social reality. The theoretical framework of...
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As the traditional communication infrastructure in Syria collapsed shortly into the 2011 civil conflict, new mixed environments emerged to replace it. In this context Syrians were forced to experiment with innovative and creative ways of exchanging information and of keeping in contact with each other. In particular they combine different technolog...
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The Syrian uprising in 2011 was accompanied by the birth of a new generation of media outlets seeking to offer alternative narratives to those of the regime. After the Kurds gained a certain level of autonomy from the Syrian regime and opposition forces, areas historically inhabited by Kurds (Rojava) have also seen the emergence of local media: for...
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During the Arab uprising in 2011, new media have been used as effective tools to express dissent and mobilize people. Flattening the transaction costs necessary to organize collective actions, new technologies have introduced innovative forms of political struggle, based on networked individualism and “connective action” (Bennett and Segerber, 2012...
Technical Report
Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in March 2011, several media outlets -- newspapers, magazines, web-radios and TV, online news agencies, grassroots news networks -- have been created by Syrians inside the country and abroad, and supported by a handful of international organizations. The report analyses these emerging media by focusing o...
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Syria’s neoliberal trajectory asserted itself (and consequently, its exclusion and alienation) not only as an economic model for concentrating wealth, and its generation, but also through the active social and political promotion of that exclusion. In the years preceding the eruption in Syria, international and local commentators heaped praise on S...

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