Children's TV and digital media in the Arab world
Subtitle: childhood, screen culture and education
By: edited by Naomi Sakr and Jeanette Steemers
Series: Middle East; Middle East (Series : Bloomsbury Publishing)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781350985674; 9781786730930
Subjects: Children; Effect of technological innovations on; Congresses; Mass media and children; Technology and children
Other titles: Children's television and digital media in the Arab world :
Description: "Who analyses children's screen content and media use in Arab countries, and with what results? Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at children. At the very time when conflict and uncertainty in key Arab countries have made local development and diversification of children's media more remote, it has become more urgent to gain a better understanding of how the next generation's identities and worldviews are formed. This interdisciplinary book is the first in English to probe both the state of Arab screen media for children and the practices of Arabic-speaking children in producing, as well as consuming, screen content. It responds to the gap in research by bringing together a holistic investigation of institutions and leading players, children's media experiences and some iconic media texts.With children's media increasingly linked to merchandising, which favours US-based global players and globalizing forces, this volume provides a timely insight into tensions between differing concepts of childhood and desirable media messages."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: "...several chapters in this volume can be traced back to presentations made at a symposium on Arab television for children, held at the University of Westminster ... in May 2013." -- Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Notes on Contributors; title: Chapter 1. Children's Screen Content in theArab World : An Introduction / Jeanette Steemers and Naomi Sakr; title: Chapter 2. Arab and Western Perspectives on Childhood and Children's Media Provision / Feryal Awan and Jeanette Steemers; title: Chapter 3. Forces for Change in Official Arab Policieson Media and Children Naomi Sakr / Naomi Sakr; title: Chapter 4. Arab Animation between Business and Politics / Omar Adam Sayfo; title: Chapter 5. Rebranding Al-Jazeera Children's Channel : The Qatarization Factor / Naomi Sakr and Jeanette Steemers; title: Chapter 6. A Channel for Every Child : Exploring a Parallel Arab Children's Television Universe / Tarek Atia; title: Chapter 7. Gender, Music Videos and Arab Youth : The Curious Case of Mini Studio / Kirsten Pike and Joe F Khalil; title: Chapter 8. Domestication and Commodification of'the Other' on Egyptian Children's TV / Ehab Galal; title: Chapter 9. Representation of Language in ArabMedia for Children / Atef Alshaer; title: Chapter 10. (Mis)trust, Access and the Poetics of Self-Reflexivity : Arab Diasporic Children in London and Media Consumption / Nisrine Mansour and Tarik Sabry; title: Bibliography; title: Index.