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The Arab Search for a Global Identity: Breaking out of the Mainstream Media Cocoon

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New Media and the New Middle East

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According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, “identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences for an individual’s comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity.” In cognitive psychology, identity refers to the “capacity for self-reflection and the awareness of self.” In sociology and political science, the notion of social identity refers to “individuals’ labeling of themselves as members of particular groups-such as nationality, social class, subculture, ethnicity, gender, employment, and so forth. It is in this sense which sociologists and historians speak of a national identity of a particular country.”

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  1. University of Southern California, USA

    Philip Seib (professor of journalism and professor of public diplomacy) (professor of journalism and professor of public diplomacy)

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Saleh, I. (2007). The Arab Search for a Global Identity: Breaking out of the Mainstream Media Cocoon. In: Seib, P. (eds) New Media and the New Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605602_2

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