The New Arab Media Technology, Image and Perception

by Zweiri, Mahjoob; Murphy, Emma C

• ISBN13: 9780863723476
• ISBN10: 0863723470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Ithaca Press

Summary

The New Arab Media: Technology, Image and Perception provides a valuable introduction and analysis of some of the most important issues surrounding the new media revolution in the Middle East, in particular examining the two Janus-like faces of the new me

Author Biography

Mahjoob Zweiri is an Assistant Professor in Contemporary History of the Middle East at the College of Arts and Sciences at Qatar University. He was until recently senior researcher in Middle East Politics and Iran at the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, and is the co-author (with A. Ehteshami) of two books, Iran and the Rise of Its Neoconservatives: The Politics of Tehran's Silent Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and Iran's Foreign Policy: From Khatami to Ahmadinejad (Ithaca Press, 2008). Emma C. Murphy is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and a co-editor of the journal Mediterranean Politics. Her interests in the Arab media stem from the political economy of information and communication technology and she has published articles on this subject in journals such as Third World Quarterly and International Studies Quarterly. Her monographs include Economic and Political Change in Tunisia: From Bourguiba to Ben Ali (Palgrave, 1999) and (co-authored with Clive Jones) Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State (Routledge, 2002).

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
The New Frontier in International Politics: The Nature of al-Jazeera's Prime-time Broadcasting in Arabic and English	p. 1
Between Freedom and Coercion: Inside Internet Implantation in the Middle East	p. 19
The Milestone Metaphor: CNN and al-Jazeera Discourse on the Iraq War	p. 31
News Media, Public Diplomacy and the 'War on Terror'	p. 47
Image Culture, Media and Power	p. 69
Religious Diaspora and Information Communications Technology: The Impact of Globalization on Communal Relations in Egypt	p. 81
Between Image and Reality: New ICTs and the Arab Public Sphere	p. 103
The Impact of Arab Satellite Channels on Public Opinion	p. 123
Jordan's Local Radio Revolution: Progress, Challenges and Possibilities	p. 139
Appendix	p. 155
Further Reading	p. 159
Index	p. 163
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