Digital Storytelling Narratives of the humanitarian Situations during the war on Gaza: A case study for the “Stories from Palestine” podcast

Document Type : Original Article

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Associate Professor- Faculty of Mass Communication/ Cairo University

Abstract

 
 The Arab region -since the Israeli aggression on Gaza in October  2023- has been facing a major problem which is the Western bias against the Palestinian side in terms of the language used in narrating the events. which insisting on denying the description of what is happening in Gaza as genocide and describing it as a conflict. in addition to adopting the news frameworks provided by Israel. such as relying on the Israeli version of events to narrate the events or presenting the events without providing the historical context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.therefore. there was a need to focus on the Arab narratives of events from the Palestinian side. which has been subjected to continuous Israeli aggression since the start of the Al-Aqsa flood. So. the current study focuses on analyzing the techniques and frameworks of the digital narrative provided by the podcast for the humanitarian situations during the war on Gaza. which began since the Al-Aqsa flood in October 2023 through a case study for the podcast "stories from Palestine" which is affiliated to the podcast "voice". which was published specifically in conjunction with the events. through an analytical study of the digital narratives depending on Theory of Media Frames to clarify the frameworks through which the humanitarian situations in Gaza are presented after October 2023 in light of the adherence of the Israeli side in its version of the events of the Al-Aqsa flood. The study also relied on “Digital Narrative Analysis Model” presented by (Robin.2011). The study was based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis. The study showed the emergence of “personal narratives framework” by (63.6%) due to the interest of the podcast which is devoted to present the humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip after the Israeli aggression. and regarding the media frames the study showed the largest percentage of the “human interest frame” by (57.6%) Which is  also linked to the aim of the podcast to provide humanitarian situation. also the “responsibility frame” emerged by (54.5%) to show the Israeli responsibility for the tragic situation that Gaza Strip has reached in various fields (health. food. education. disruption of daily life).
 
 

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