New Media and Neo-Islamism- New Media's Impact on the Political Culture in the Islamic World

ISBN-13: 9783836416559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 392 str.

Mohammed Ibahrine

Opis

The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the nature, form and impactof the information and communication technologies in current times. Itinvestigates the context, nature and outcomes of Islamists use of theInternet, their experiences, challenges and innovations, providing a uniqueinsight into the workings of new media and online politics in the Arab andIslamic countries. It considers how the political use of the Internet by Islamistgroups has influenced the information flow, organization, recruitment andmobilization of activists, members and sympathizers. It also explores thatdifferent ways in which the Internet is employed, what communication tacticsare used, their effectiveness to inform our understanding of political andsocial change in the Islamic world. The New Media and Neo-Islamism will beof interest to all those concerned with the new information and communicationtechnologies and will be of value to students in politics, communication,culture, sociological studies and Islam.