Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring [electronic resource] /
Hudson, L.editor.
Iskandar, A.editor.
Kirk, M.editor.
Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made the Arab uprisings possible.
Includes index.
Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made the Arab uprisings possible.
Machine generated contents note: -- Publics, Imaginaries, Soft Power, and Epistemologies on the Eve of the Arab Uprisings; Leila Hudson and Adel Iskandar SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL CULTURE 1. Arab Media, Political Stagnation, and Civil Engagement: Reflections on the Eve of the Arab Spring; Mohamed Zayani 2. New Media, Social Change, and the Communication Revolution in an Egyptian Village; Sahar Khamis 3. Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent; Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey 4. From Brotherhood to Blogosphere: Dynamics of Cyberactivism and Identity in the Egyptian Ikhwan; Courtney RadschNEW GENRES AND LITERACIES 5. Preaching Islam to the Video Game Generation: New Media Literacies and Religious Edutainment in the Arab World; Vit Sisler 6. Neopatriarchy in Syrian and Turkish Television Drama: Between the Culture Industry and the Dialect Imagination; Leila Hudson 7. Media Fatwas and Fatwa Editors: Challenging and Preserving Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Religious Authority; Bettina Graf 8. Technology Literacies of the New Media: Phrasing the World in the 'Arab Easy' (R)evolution; Yves Gonzalez-Quijano GLOBAL EFFECTS 9. BBC Broadcasting in the Middle East: The Evolution of Public Diplomacy; Annabelle Sreberny 10. New Media and Public Diplomacy in the New Arab World; Philip Seib 11. Al Jazeera English as a Conciliatory Medium; Mohammed el-Nawawy and Shawn Powers 12. Imagined Coherence: Transnational Media and the Arab Diaspora in Europe; Khalil Rinnawi EVOLUTION OF MEDIA THEORIES13. The State of Arab Journalism Studies; Noha Mellor 14. Arab and Western Media Systems Typologies; Kai Hafez  15. Defying Definition: Toward Reflexivity in 'Arab Media' Studies; Adel Iskandar.
Middle East-Politics and government.
Ethnology-Middle East .
Political science.
Communication.
Political communication.
Middle Eastern Politics.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Political Science.
Media Studies.
Communication Studies.
Political Communication.