Al-Alamein Institute For Postgraduate Studies In Najaf Al-Ashraf

Vision of Media Department at the Institute of Al-Alamein Institute for Graduate Studies

The importance of media is growing with scientific and technological progress in the fields of communication and artificial intelligence. Providing a conducive scientific and academic environment is crucial to strengthening the educational process and providing the necessary infrastructure, most notably media personnel, researchers, and practitioners. The vision of the Department of Media at the Alamein Institute of Graduate Studies is directed toward the methodological integration required to supply the labor market, including scientific research institutions, with researchers capable of keeping pace with the technological acceleration in mass communication and possessing a critical vision.

Mission of the Media Department at the Institute

The mission of the Institute's Media Department is to empower students in the department to assume their professional, academic, and national responsibilities by encouraging participation and expanding the base of media researchers, capable of monitoring and addressing emerging problems resulting from the introduction of artificial intelligence applications and the challenges of misinformation.

Objectives of the Media Department at the Institute

1.   Prepare media specialists with higher degrees.

2. Complete post-master’s study requirements, starting in the next two years, with the aim of graduating the first batch of PhD holders.

3. Attract the best instructors, especially in the fields of media research methods, digital media, and generative artificial intelligence.

4. Provide media institutions in both the public and private sectors with graduates in journalism, radio, television, public relations, and related rapid technical developments, as well as holding semester courses and awarding diplomas in media.

Activities of the Media Department

1.  Hold seminars and discussion groups of high seriousness and a tendency towards training and discovering the latent experiences and skills of students.

2.  Openness to media institutions to interact with them and help them overcome the challenges of new generations of technologies and the negative uses of communication devices.

3. Transform theoretical scientific lectures into practical lessons learned, to devise new titles for theses and dissertations that offer proposals and solutions to the problems identified in the media sector in Iraq.

4.   Establish scientific forums that enable students and researchers to interpret social phenomena and their relationship to the media.