This book addresses the roles of various media in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world. Interdisciplinary contributions examine the sociopolitical dynamics generated in and through media, with perspectives emerging from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, and political science. This book explores both new media and older media forms and formats including the press, satellite television, Facebook, Web 2.0 technology, posters, and music videos. Topics range across the politics of popular culture, women scholars'...
This book addresses the roles of various media in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world....
This book examines the evolution of national Arab media and its interplay with political change, particularly in emerging democracies in the context of the Arab uprisings. Investigated from a journalistic perspective, this research addresses the role played by traditional national media in consolidating emerging democracies or in exacerbating their fragility within new political contexts. Also analyzed are the ways journalists report about politics and transformations of these media industries, drawing on the international experiences of media in transitional societies. This study builds on a...
This book examines the evolution of national Arab media and its interplay with political change, particularly in emerging democracies in the context o...
This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic. The authors analyze media logic under three specific scope conditions: uncertainty, identity, resonance. First, they lay out the general adaptation of media logic in the general debate of the UN General Assembly 1992-2010. They then explore the adaptation of media logic in Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom concerning the cases of humanitarian intervention in Cote d'Ivoire and Libya, both in 2011. The results indicate the need to move beyond the assumption of a general process of mediatization...
This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic. The authors analyze media logic under three specific scope con...
This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative `public' interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates.
This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative `public' interdepende...