May Kamel Abdallah
May Kamel Abdallah (born 1960) is a Lebanese researcher in the field of information and communication sciences.
May Abdallah is a professor of information and communication sciences in the Faculty of Information in the Lebanese University since 1986. She is the daughter of Kamel Abdallah, writer, poet and journalist who died in a car accident in 1970. He was an important member of the Social Party and a close friend and partner to Kamal Joumblatt. He was the son of the poet of South Lebanon Abdul Hussein Abdullah. May Abdallah graduated in journalism from Lebanese University in 1982. During the Lebanese civil war she went to France where she prepared her PHD in Communication Sciences in the University of Stendhal in Grenoble. She is working as a Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Information in the Lebanese University since 1986, and as a Delegate Professor in the Department of Information in the Beirut Arab University for teaching and supervising graduate studies. She was also a Member of the Scientific Council, and Chief Department of Science in Information and communication, in the Higher Institute of Ph.D. at the [[Lebanese University] from 1997 to 2015, the Secretary General of Development Studies Association DSA in Beirut(2001-2004, Secretary of Internal Affairs in the Islamic Cultural Center in Beirut(1998-2001). May Abdallah is the Founder and President of the AACS(2014), the Arab Association for researches and Communication Sciences, and has been designed lately (december 2017) as a member of the board of the Unesco Organisation ORBICOM for Communication. She is also a Member of the Lebanese Writers Union, of the Association of “Lebanese Women Researchers”, the Arab - American Association of the professors of communication AUSACE, the Middle-East network of the training centers for media. May Abdallah is Chief Editor of "Development and communication" scientific referred journal(2010). She published many books in Communication, and participate in many scientific committees of referred journals in Arab countries and all over the world.
Books[edit]
- The Role of media in supporting projects to rehabilitate the disabled , booklet , Beirut 1993.
- Writing to the media , Dar al-Husseini for Printing and Publishing , Beirut, 1994 (in French)
- Communication in the age of globalization - the role and the new challenges , University House Printing and Publishing , Beirut, 1999
- Communication in the era of globalization , second edition , Revised and enlarged , Dar Annahda , Beirut 2001
- TV in Lebanon and the Arab world - A role for tomorrow's technologies , Dar Annahda, Beirut 2001
- TV in a changing world , second edition . Revised and enlarged , Dar Annahda , Beirut , 2004
- Means of communication and Democracy - Satellite TV and the media War , Dar Annahda , Beirut , 2004
- Communication Theories , Dar Annahda , Beirut , 2005. -Methods of persuasion and propaganda , Dar Annahda, Beirut , 2006
- Science media and communication in the Arab world and Problems of Training, Dar Annahda , Beirut 2009
- Research in Information and Communication Sciences , cognitive frameworks and methodology rules , Dar Annahda , Beirut , 2010
Obstacles of the research in Communication Sciences [1][edit]
It is neither easy nor intuitive to do a scientific research, especially in a modern and forked field as in the field of Information and Communication Sciences. The issues addressed by the researchers are mostly familiar to them and this familiarity is a real obstacle in front of them, because it separates them from the general sense and prevents them from bringing about a change in the perception, and getting out of the alienation and prejudices. The novice researcher cannot simply turns from day to day to a maker, and producer or a critic of the knowledge that he stood a long time to receive it and digest it. Here happens a sudden change in the relationship with the knowledge that is impossible to happen without difficulties.
On the other hand, do not forget that scientific research exercise supposes a scientific extensive culture beyond borders, so that the researcher can overcome all the methodological difficulties, with the acquisition of technologies that enable him to do that. All this does not mean to abide by the diligent speech theorists in methodologies and their types, origins and schools, who talk too long about what the researcher should and should not do, without clarifying their instructions with realistic examples. Every researcher realizes that the methodology is, in any case, only a meansand that there is no such ideal and suitable methodology for the application in absolute terms. While the discourse on research, defining fixed rules, forgets that the “appropriate” methodology always remain associated with the research topic, and it is defined as the required equation between the techniques used and the final goal of a research project. The academic discourse on research methodology in the field of Information has many weaknesses, and among which that he urges the novice researcher to shuts in confortable routine frameworks and habits with a limited scientific output. The “good” methodology requires complying with the rules, undergoing all forms of follow-up and experimentation, using suitable means,in order to achieve desire knowledge and results, while the outstanding works which produces impressive results more than the others, despite their shortfalls, they are based on unconventional methods and ideas.Does this mean to abandon the need to consolidate the knowledge and methods of teaching the origins of scientific research to accompany the first steps the new researchers?Does this mean to return to leave it to random research and scattered individual efforts so as not to give in to the habits and canned speech about the methodology?[2]
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