Media evolution on the eve of the Arab Spring /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description:	xi, 285 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication.
Subject:	Mass media -- Political aspects -- Arab countries. Mass media -- Social aspects -- Arab countries. Social change -- Arab countries. Mass media -- Political aspects. Mass media -- Social aspects. Politics and government Social change. Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century. Arab countries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10122963

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Other authors / contributors:	Hudson, Leila, editor. Iskander, Adel, editor. Kirk, Mimi, editor.
ISBN:	9781137403148 1137403144
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Publics, Imaginaries, Soft Power, and Epistemologies on the Eve of the Arab Uprisings
Part I. Social Change and Political Culture
1. Arab Media, Political Stagnation, and Civil Engagement: Reflections on the Eve of the Arab Spring
2. New Media, Social Change, and the Communication Revolution in an Egyptian Village
3. Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent
4. From Brotherhood to Blogosphere: Dynamics of Cyberactivism and Identity in the Egyptian Ikhwan
Part II. New Genres and Literacies
5. Preaching Islam to the Video Game Generation: New Media Literacies and Religious Edutainment in the Arab World
6. Neopatriarchy in Syrian and Turkish Television Drama: Between the Culture Industry and the Dialect Imagination
7. Media Fatwas and Fatwa Editors: Challenging and Preserving Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Religious Authority
8. Technology Literacies of the New Media: Phrasing the World in the "Arab Easy" (R)evolution
Part III. Global Effects
9. BBC Broadcasting in the Middle East: The Evolution of Public Diplomacy
10. New Media and Public Diplomacy in the New Arab World
11. Al Jazeera English as a Conciliatory Medium
12. Imagined Coherence: Transnational Media and the Arab Diaspora in Europe
Part IV. Evolution of Media Theories
13. The State of Arab Journalism Studies
14. Arab and Western Media Systems Typologies
15. Defying Definition: Toward Reflexivity in "Arab Media" Studies
About the Authors
Index

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