Global Media Trends:

Digitalization
Privatization
Consolidation (concentration of media ownership)
Deregulation
Democratization

Issues/debates:

Virtual communities and civil society
Social and political activism
Online forums- blogging-online feminism
The cultural products of globalization
Cultural intrusion or cultural influence
The effects of the new media technologies on the Arab cultural and social life
The knowledge gap and the digital divide.
The development of Arab transnational media
The rise of private media, media free zones and paid TV networks in the Arab region