New Media in the Muslim World
Subtitle: The Emerging Public Sphere (Middle East Studies)
Contributors: Dale F. Eickelman (Editor); Jon W. Anderson (Editor)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780253216052
Subjects: Islamic studies; Media Studies; Social aspects; Political Science; Islam; Politics / Current Events; Religious aspects; Politics/International Relations; Public Affairs & Administration; Communication policy; Communication; Islamic countries
First sentence: A new sense of public is emerging throughout Muslim-majority states and Muslim communities elsewhere.
Description: This second edition of a widely acclaimed collection of essays reports on how new media - fax machines, satellite television, and the Internet - and the new uses of older media - cassettes, pulp fiction, the cinema, the telephone, and the press - shape belief, authority, and community in the Muslim world. The chapters in this work, including new chapters dealing specifically with events after September 11, 2001, concern Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, and Muslim communities in the United States and elsewhere. The extent to which today's new media have transcended local and state frontiers and have reshaped understandings of gender, authority, social justice, identities, and politics in Muslim societies emerges from this timely and provocative book. -- Publisher.