Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition After 2011

ISBN-13: 9781138494886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 426 str.

Roxane Farmanfarmaian

Opis

This volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and hybrid-authoritarian systems of the Middle East.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Structure: Media Status in Governance and Society  1. The Structure of Turkish Media in judicial and political contexts: An illustration of values and status negotiation  2. Government-Media Relations in Tunisia: A paradigm shift in the culture of governance?  3. The Authoritarian Trap in State/Media Structures in Morocco’s Political Transition  4. The Scissors and the Magnifying glass: Internet governance in the transitional Tunisian context  5. Social Media as a Space for Political Battles: AK Trolls and other politically motivated trolling  6. Under Watchful Eyes: Internet surveillance and citizen media in Morocco, the case of Mamfakinch Part 2: Function: Media Values and the Politics of Sector Transition  7. All is Flux: A hybrid approach to macro-analysis of the Turkish media  8. What is Private, What is Public, and Who Exercises Media Power in Tunisia? A hybrid-functional perspective on Tunisia’s media sector  9. Media in Morocco: A highly political economy, the case of press and online publications since the 1990s  10. Local Media in Turkey: The growth of Islamic networks in Konya's radio landscape  Part 3: Agency: Negotiating the Balance between Power and Public  11. Negotiating Identity: Gender and Tunisian talk shows  12. The Representation of Women in Moroccan Television Talk Shows  13. Understanding ‘New Turkey’ through Women’s Eyes: Gender politics in Turkish daytime talk shows  14. Negotiating Values in the Islamist Press after 2013  15. Reinforcing Citizenship through Civil Society and Media Partnerships: The case of community radios in Tunisia  16. Radio and Political change : Listening in contemporary Morocco  17. Representation of Terror and Ethnic Conflict in the Turkish Press: An analysis of the Kurdish peace process  18. Islamist Cyber-activism in Tunisia: Contesting the message, redefining the public

O autorze

Roxane Farmanfarmaian is Director of International Relations and Global Studies at the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge, UK and a lecturer on modern Middle East politics at Cambridge University’s Department of Politics and International Studies.