Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Arab Media, Political Stagnation, and Civil Engagement: Reflections on the Eve of the Arab Spring....Pages 15-28
New Media, Social Change, and the Communication Revolution in an Egyptian Village....Pages 29-47
Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent....Pages 49-74
From Brotherhood to Blogosphere: Dynamics of Cyberactivism and Identity in the Egyptian Ikhwan....Pages 75-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Preaching Islam to the Video Game Generation: New Media Literacies and Religious Edutainment in the Arab World....Pages 103-125
Neopatriarchy in Syrian and Turkish Television Drama: Between the Culture Industry and the Dialect Imagination....Pages 127-138
Media Fatwas and Fatwa Editors: Challenging and Preserving Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Religious Authority....Pages 139-157
Technology Literacies of the New Media: Phrasing the World in the “Arab Easy” (R)evolution....Pages 159-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
BBC Broadcasting in the Middle East: The Evolution of Public Diplomacy....Pages 169-180
New Media and Public Diplomacy in the New Arab World....Pages 181-192
Al Jazeera English as a Conciliatory Medium....Pages 193-208
Imagined Coherence: Transnational Media and the Arab Diaspora in Europe....Pages 209-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
The State of Arab Journalism Studies....Pages 223-234
Arab and Western Media Systems Typologies....Pages 235-250
Defying Definition: Toward Reflexivity in “Arab Media” Studies....Pages 251-265
Back Matter....Pages 267-285