Media evolution on the eve of the Arab Spring
By: Edited by Leila Hudson, Adel Iskandar, and Mimi Kirk
Edition: First edition.
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781137403148
Subjects: Mass media; Social change; Politics and government; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Description: "Leading scholars of Arab media come together to offer unparalleled insight into the communication environment that preceded the political and societal ruptures that shook the Arab world 2010-2011. Examining the role of competing publics, the state's ability to construct meaning, and social and political change in the region, they unsettle oversimplifications of much of the existing literature and examine numerous precipitating conditions, including, political stagnation, civil engagement, new media, rural and urban divides, Islamist blogospheres, video games, Turkish and Syrian dramas, mediated diplomacy, and diaspora"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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.