Media in the Middle East Activism, Politics, and Culture [Hardcover]

This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern studies discuss their views and perceptions of the medias influence on regional and global change. Focusing on aspects of economy, digital news, online businesses, gender-related issues, social media, and film, the contributors of this volume detail medias role in political movements throughout the Middle East. The volume illustrates how the increase in Internet connections and mobile applications have resulted in an emergence of indispensable tools for information acquisition, dissemination, and activism.

Prologue: Online Activism and the Arab Uprisings: Focus on the Tunisian

Introduction

Part I: On Media Activism and Political Involvement

1. Revisiting Cyberactivism Six Years after the Arab Spring: Potentials, Limitations and Future Prospects

2. Constructing an Alternative Public Sphere: Social Media & Their Cultural Meaning in Iran

3. Youve Come a Long Way Baby: Personal/Political Empowerment in Kuwaiti/Arab Womens New Media Practices

Part II: On Governmental and non-Governmental Media Organisations

4. Location & Media Production in the Middle East: A Case Study of Media Cities

5. How to Prevent a Mobilization: Assad & the Electronic War

Part III: Media, Culture and Language in the Middle East

7. Winning Hearts and Minds through Soft Power: The Case of Turkish Soap Operas in thelCæ