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Blogging Yet to Catch on in the Region
DUBAI - Emergence of new media, like blogging, may take time to catch up in the region due to lack of creativity. Media experts said that only a small population from the Arab world took to blogging.
“Most famous blogs in the Arab world are personal and talk about love and marriage. Only political movements can give blogging some similarity with traditional journalism,” said Ayman Al Sayyad, Editor-in-Chief, Wajhat Nazr magazine in Egypt.
According to statistics provided at the session titled ‘The New Media: New Platforms that change the scene’ – a special for BBC Arabia’s ‘Open Agenda’ revealed that blogs by Arabs make up seven per cent of the total number of blogs in the world. The statistics revealed that there were only 40,000 bloggers among the seven-million strong population of Arabs. The numbers pointed out that the blogs totalled 490,000, of which 30 per cent were from Egypt. Of these, 73 per cent were male bloggers and the remaining female.
The panelists also discussed that the bloggers are taking risks since they have no legal framework to protect them. “Bloggers take risks more than a journalist who works within a legal framework. Laws fail to cope with development and so currently there is no protection for the blogger,” said Al Sayyad.
“The traditional media has realised ‘red lines’ since they are trained to do so but bloggers do not have this training and hence they easily become victims of accountability,” said Sultan Al Bazie, CEO, Attariq Communication KSA. asmaalizain@khaleejtimes.com
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