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

ISBN-13: 9783319881010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 265 str.

Nele Lenze; Charlotte Schriwer; Zubaidah Abdul Jalil

Spis treści

Prologue: Online Activism and the Arab Uprisings: Focus on the Tunisian

Introduction

Part I: On Media Activism and Political Involvement

1. Revisiting Cyberactivism Six Years after the Arab Spring: Potentials, Limitations and Future Prospects

2. Constructing an Alternative Public Sphere: Social Media & Their Cultural Meaning in Iran

3. You’ve Come a Long Way Baby: Personal/Political Empowerment in Kuwaiti/Arab Women’s New Media Practices

Part II: On Governmental and non-Governmental Media Organisations

4. Location & Media Production in the Middle East: A Case Study of Media Cities

5. How to Prevent a Mobilization: Assad & the Electronic War

6. Spectacles of Terror: Media and the Cultural Production of Terrorism

Part III: Media, Culture and Language in the Middle East

7. Winning Hearts and Minds through Soft Power: The Case of Turkish Soap Operas in the Middle East

8. Locating Emirati Filmmaking within Globalizing Media Ecologies

9. Protest Poetry On- and Offline: Trans-Regional Interactions in the Arabian Gulf: An Example from Bahrain

10. Arabic in a Time of Revolution: Sociolinguistic Notes from Egypt

O autorze

Nele Lenze is Senior Research Fellow and Editor at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.

Charlotte Schriwer is Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.

Zubaidah Abdul Jalil is Publications Executive at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.