Media in the Middle East: Activism, Politics, and Culture

Description

This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern studies discuss their views and perceptions of the media’s influence on regional and global change. Focusing on aspects of economy, digital news, online businesses, gender-related issues, social media, and film, the contributors of this volume detail media’s role in political movements throughout the Middle East. The volume illustrates how the increase in Internet connections and mobile applications have resulted in an emergence of indispensable tools for information acquisition, dissemination, and activism. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Revisiting Cyberactivism Six Years after the Arab Spring: Potentials, Limitations and Future Prospects (Sahar Khamis)....Pages 3-19 Constructing an Alternative Public Sphere: The Cultural Significance of Social Media in Iran (Gi Yeon Koo)....Pages 21-43 You’ve Come A Long Way Baby: Women’s New Media Practices, Empowerment, and Everyday Life in Kuwait and the Middle East (Deborah L. Wheeler)....Pages 45-67 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 Location, Regulation, and Media Production in the Arab World: A Case Study of Media Cities (Yushi Chiba)....Pages 71-88 Preventing a Mobilization from Spreading: Assad and the Electronic War (Matthieu Rey)....Pages 89-106 Spectacles of Terror: Media and the Cultural Production of Terrorism (Suzi Mirgani)....Pages 107-142 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Winning Hearts and Minds through Soft Power: The Case of Turkish Soap Operas in the Middle East (Jana Jabbour)....Pages 145-163 Locating Emirati Filmmaking within Globalizing Media Ecologies (Dale Hudson)....Pages 165-202 Protest Poetry On- and Offline: Trans-regional Interactions in the Arabian Gulf: An Example from Bahrain (Nele Lenze)....Pages 203-222 Arabic in a Time of Revolution: Sociolinguistic Notes from Egypt (Ivan Panovic)....Pages 223-256 Erratum to: Media in the Middle East (Nele Lenze, Charlotte Schriwer, Zubaidah Abdul Jalil)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 257-265