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Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India
New Delhi: Sage (2021), 365 pp.
"Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India is a critical reflection on governance and policymaking, development, disability, knowledge and other social markers in the context of community media. Bringing together different modes of community media—such as video, r
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A Counter-Public of a Different Kind: Tajik Youth, Religious Authority and the Medialisation of Islam
In: New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), pp. 149-173
Médias, religion et mobilité en Afrique et dans la diaspora = Media, Religion and Mobility in Africa and the Diaspora
Social Compass, volume 61, issue 1 (2014), pp. 3-72
Multiple Modernities and Mass Communications in Muslim Countries
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 243-268
"This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers
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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
Médias et religions en Afrique de l'Ouest
Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2009), 173 pp.
"Depuis les années 1990, la généralisation des télévisions satellitaires et l’avènement d’Internet ont bouleversé le paysage médiatique et contribué à une modification profonde du rapport entre les populations et l’information. Désormais acteurs politiques à part entière, les méd
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Religion und Massenmedien
Berlin: Weißensee-Verlag (2009), 273 pp.
"Die Vorstellung, Religion sei in den Hintergrund getreten und zur Privatangelegenheit geworden, ist überholt. Vieles spricht für eine neue Sichtbarkeit der Religion. Dies enthüllt sich durch verstärktes Interesse an religiösen Sensationen und Themen.
Die Vermittlung religiöser Inhalte, seien
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"Der Mainstream-Islam, der sich heute im arabischen Fernsehen und Internet präsentiert, hat [...] eine besondere Charakteristik: er hat eine moralische Botschaft, ist aber nicht vordergründig politisch und wird damit geduldet von den autoritären Regimes, die in populär-religiösen Formaten zumei
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Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia
New York; London: Routledge (2008), 238 pp.
"This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of global
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Understanding Alternative Media
Maidenhead: Open University Press (2008), 196 pp.
Arab Media: Power and Weakness
Deep Insights
New York; London: Continuum (2008), ix, 277 pp.
"Arab Media: Power and Weakness is comprised of research synopses (comprehensive overviews over the current academic literature and “blind spots” of research in one of the above mentioned fields); original empirical research; and theoretical papers. The result is a comprehensive handbook of up-t
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Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria
Oxford; Ibadan; Bloomington: James Currey Publishers; HEBN Publishers; Indiana University Press (2008), xii, 147 pp.
Evoking Moral Community, Fragmenting Muslim Discourse: Sermon Audio-Recordings and the Reconfiguration of Public Debate in Mali
Journal for Islamic Studies, volume 27 (2007), pp. 39-72
"The article explores the processes that have allowed Islam to gain great appeal as a community-building idiom in Mali since the introduction of multiparty democracy in 1991. Drawing on the mediatic performances of the charismatic preacher Sharif Haidara, the article analyzes how new media technolog
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"This book is the result of a research project covering eight countries in South and South East Asia examining the role and impact of alternative media. The definition of alternative media depends very much on the political, social, cultural and economic environment you live in. Thus, this book give
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Indigenous Language Media in Africa
Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) (2006), xii, 398 pp.
"A collection of 22 papers on the indigenous language press (and other media) in Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, primarily devoted to the activities of African language newspapers and periodicals. Some papers examine the significant and pioneering role religious publications
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Muslims and the News Media
London: Tauris (2006), xv, 257 pp.
"Written by both leading academic authorities and by Muslim media practitioners, 'Muslims and the Media' is designed as a comprehensive and critical textbook and is set in both the British and international contexts. The book clearly establishes the links between context, content, production and aud
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Promises of (im)mediate Salvation: Islam, Broadcast Media, and the Remaking of Religious Experience in Mali
American Ethnologist, volume 33, issue 2 (2006), pp. 210-229
"In this article, I take the highly successful Muslim preacher Cherif Haidara in Mali as a starting point to explore the conditions that, throughout the contemporary Muslim world, facilitate the rise to prominence of new types of religious leaders, who, by virtue of their media performances and in t
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Reflections in a Bloodshoot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas
London: Pluto Press (2006), xviii, 374 pp.
The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
New York: Columbia University Press (2006), xiii, 270 pp.
"An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind shows how sermon tapes have provided one of the means by which Islamic ethical traditions have be
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