This book addresses the roles of various media in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world. Interdisciplinary contributions examine the sociopolitical dynamics generated in and through media, with perspectives emerging from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, and political science. This book explores both new media and older media forms and formats including the press, satellite television, Facebook, Web 2.0 technology, posters, and music videos. Topics range across the politics of popular culture, women scholars' religious fatwas, the Palestinian visual public sphere, Hezbollah's media policy, women's presence on Arab satellite television, and the uses of Facebook in the Tunisian revolution. Contributors include such well-known scholars as Charles Hirschkind, Marwan Kraidy, Amahl Bishara, and Olfa Lamloum.
Author(s): Lena Jayyusi, Anne Sofie Roald
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 328
Tags: Political History Anarchism Democracy Fascism Nazism Marxism Communism Nationalism Politicians Revolutions Coups Cultural Local Urban London Multicultural Reference Philosophy Science Nature Ideology Government Politics Society Media Studies Communication Social Sciences
Lena Jayyusi: Introduction
1 Charles Hirschkind: The Egyptian Blogosphere and the Revolution of the 25th of January
2 Sadok Hammami: The Three Phases of Facebook: Social Networks and the Public Sphere in the Arab World—the Case of the Tunisian Revolution
3 Olfa Lamloum: Hezbollah Communication Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
4 Toufic Haddad; Martyrs and Markets: Exploring the Palestinian Visual Public Sphere
5 Miriyam Aouragh: Revolutionary Manoeuvrings: Palestinian Activism between Cybercide, and Cyber Intifada
6 Amahl Bishara: The Geopolitics of Press Freedoms in the Israeli-Palestinian Context
7 Marwan M. Kraidy: The Politics/Popular Culture Nexus in the Arab World: A Preliminary Comparison of Reality Television and Music Video
8 Anne Sofie Roald: Female Islamic Interpretations on the Air: Fatwas and Religious Guidance by Women Scholars on Arab Satellite Channels
9 Hayat Howayyek Atiyya: Presence and Visibility: Women in Arab Satellite Television, 1996–2006
10 Mona Abdel-Fadil: The Framing of the Islam Online Crisis in Arab Media
