Arab Press In The Current Cyberspace An Analytical Perspective

Abstract

This paper attempts to monitor the actual state of the Arab electronic press in the current cyberspace, via its definition, features and setbacks that hinder its production, it highlights also the electronic presence of some of the biggest Arabic press titles and it gauges their capacity to assimilate and keep up with the electronic environment by the help of a comparison between their electronic and paper versions ,in addition to that the study pinpoints the impact of the ICTs on the production of the Arab electronic press, therefore, according to the analysis the study reveals that eventhough after twenty years of its appearance the Arab electronic press still suffer from the dominance of the traditional media pattern , which considers the web as a secondary extension who cannot overlap the first one, and this press lacks media and economic viabilities yet.