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Prospects for Collecve Security Cooperaon in the Gulf
Sultan Qaboos University
Journal of Arts & Social Sciences
Date received: 16/01/2017
Date of acceptance: 31/12/2017
Assistant Professor
Department of Polical Science
College of Economics and Polical Science
Sultan Qaboos University
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Hani Albasoos
Volume (9) Issue (2), August 2018
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Characteriscs and funcons of military TV shows in
the Sultanate of Oman: A content analysis of «Abtaluna
Almaghaweer» program during 2020 - 2021
Abstract
This study seeks to examine the most important characteriscs of the content of «Abalna Al-Maghaweer» tv
program, and the most important media funcons it performs. To achieve this, the study uses content analysis
to collect the targeted data. It also adopts the Funconal Construcvism as a theorecal framework of the study.
The study found number of signicant results; the most important of which is that the topics related to military
formaon and the qualicaon of the armed forces members were the most frequently topics to be covered in
the study sample episodes with a relavely high intensity. The resulted revealed that «Strength and Eciency»
was the highest value promoted in the content of the program. The results also showed that the program focused
mainly on addressing issues related to the Governorate of Muscat, and most of the guests in the episodes are of
higher military ranks. The program used both feature and variety formats with variety of technical elements in
direcng and shoong most of the episodes.
Keywords: Milatary TV Shows; Oman TV; Milatary Media; Structural funconalism; Content analysis.
Eslam Abdelraouf, Abdelwahab Bokhnofa and Amira Mohamed
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