"It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject." Digest of Middle East Studies
This second edition of a widely acclaimed collection of essays reports on how new media fax machines, satellite television, and the Internet and the new uses of older media cassettes, pulp fiction, the cinema, the telephone, and the press shape belief, authority, and community in the Muslim world. The chapters in this work, including new chapters dealing specifically with events after September 11, 2001, concern Indonesia,...
"It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject." Digest of Mid...
"Reformatting Politics" examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders. These new ICTs--the internet, mobile phones, satellite radio and television--have allowed these civil society organizations to form extensive networks linking the local and the global in new ways and to flourish internationally in ways that were not possible without them. The book consists of four sections containing essays by some of the top scholars...
"Reformatting Politics" examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations...
