Feeling at Home Away from Home: The Pioneering Role of Al-Jazeera and Other Arab Transnational Satellite Channels in the Maintenance and Change of Arab Diasporic Enclaves
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Abstract
This article discusses the role of Arab transnational satellite television channels such as Al-Jazeera, Arab Radio and Television (ART), Nile Drama, the Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC), Dubai TV, AbuDhabi TV, Future, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC), and Al-Arabiya in connecting Arab diasporic communities outside the Arab world with their Arab native countries in particular and the Arab world in general. Such satellite channels, within approximately a decade, not only have become a major force in reporting and disseminating the news but are in reality acting as anchors in several areas of behaviour, such as televising Friday prayers and Sunday church sermons as well as showing Westernized entertainment programs. Hence, these satellite channels have simultaneously acted as agents both of cultural change and of cultural maintenance vis-a-vis the host societies. This article explores their role in the creation of a virtual Arab world and the facilitation of crosscultural communica...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".