Internet Archive Capturing Snapshots of Gaddafi’s Digital Newspapers Mohamed Aturban Old Dominion University Fall 2016
InternetArchiveCapturingSnapshotsofGaddafi’sDigitalNewspapers
MohamedAturbanOldDominionUniversity
Fall2016
Gaddafi’sregime
September
1969 42years
August
2011TheArabSpring(Tripoli’sfall)
Militarycoup
Libyannationalnewspapers
• 71newspapersandmagazines• ALLmonitoredandpublishedbytheLibyanGeneralPressCorporation(LGPC)• TheJamahiriyaNewsAgency(JANA)wasthemainsourceofdomesticnews• Norealpoliticalfunctionotherthantopolishtheregime’simage• Publishinformationprovidedbytheregime
TheLibyanmostwell-knownnewspapers
TheGeneralPressCorporation
AlJamahiriya Elshams ElZahfAl
AkhdarElFajrElJadid
alshames.comwww.aljamahiria.com www.azzahfalakhder.com www.alfajraljadeed.com
Libyannewspapers’websitesaftertherevolution
alshames.com
www.aljamahiria.com
www.azzahfalakhder.com
www.alfajraljadeed.com
• AllwebsitesoftheLibyanmaindigitalnewspapersbecamecontrolledbyforeigninstitutions
BecameanEgyptiannewspaper
BecameanEgyptiannewspaper(redirectedtowww.news.kifaharabi.com/ )
BecameaGermansportblog
BecameanEgyptiannewspaper
Didweloseourdigitalhistory?
• Fortunately,theInternetArchivecapturedthousandsofsnapshotsofLibyan’sdigitalnewspapers• ThisincludescapturingtheGeneralPressCorporation(LGPC)website.
www.aljamahiria.com
alshames.com
www.azzahfalakhder.com
www.alfajraljadeed.com
Whatisalreadyarchived?• Alotofdomesticnewsandtheregime’sinterpretationofinternationalnews• Theregime’sactivitiesduringthe“2011”revolution• Economic,social,sport,andculturalarticles• ThelongprocesstakenbytheLibyanauthoritiesinordertoestablishtheAfricanUnion• GaddafiandPanAmFlight103• MostofGaddafi’sspeeches• …
PraiseforQaddafinolongerontheliveweb
https://web.archive.org/web/20110514103049/http://www.alfajraljadeed.com//full.pdf
Thereisnofuturefor
LibyawithouttheleaderMuammarGaddafi(the
iconofnationalunity)
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http://www.alfajraljadeed.com/full.pdf
PeoplearoundtheworldpraisingGadhafi!
https://web.archive.org/web/20041018151706/http://aljamahiria.com/Main/Mail.html
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http://www.news.aljamahiria.com/Main/Mail.html
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