Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts: An Ethnographic Perspective

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Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children’s uses of digital media in three sites—London, Casablanca and Beirut—and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content. The study moves away from a conventional definition of media towards a pluralistic interpretation, and provides key ethnographic findings that reveal how the notion of home is extended across everyday spaces that children occupy. Exploring the relationship between children and media outside of the subject-object hierarchy, it re-connects them in a horizontal mapping of affectivity and intimacy. This book will appeal to scholars specializing in children and the media, digital media, media and cultural studies, media anthropology, philosophy and Middle Eastern studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: Arab Children and the Media—Epistemological Topographies of a Nascent Field (Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour)....Pages 1-31 The Poetics of Self-Reflexivity: Arab Diasporic Children in London and Media Uses (Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour)....Pages 33-50 Ethnography as Double-Thrownness: War and the Face of the Sufferer as Media (Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour)....Pages 51-64 Networked World-Making: Children’s Encounters with Media Objects (Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour)....Pages 65-98 Children, Media as ‘Equipment’ and Worldliness (Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour)....Pages 99-120 Conclusion (Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour)....Pages 121-133 Back Matter ....Pages 135-147