"Investigating a vibrant audio-recording industry in southern Yemen, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media shows how new forms of political activism emerge through sensory engagements with Arabic poetry and song. From the 1940s onward, a new cadre of political activists has used audio-recording technolo
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gies, especially the audiocassette, to redefine traditional Muslim authorship. Cassette producers address conflicted views about the resurgence of tribalism by showing Yemenis how to adapt traditional mores toward more progressive and pluralistic aims. Skilled bards continue to perform orally marked tribal verse. As Miller demonstrates through an analysis of several centuries of changing media ecology, however, oral performance is anything but static. Much of the power of orality stems from its relation to writing, print, and audiovisual media that link tribal ideals with metropolitan and national discourses. Through an examination of the lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences, Moral Resonance shows how tribalism becomes a resource for critical reform when expressed in tropes of community, place, person, and history. Yemenis' use of audiocassettes turns such tropes into cultural resources for morally evaluating political liberalism." (Publisher description)
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"Der Band basiert auf einer Tagung der Sektion Religionssoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Er vereinigt sowohl theoretische als auch empirische Beiträge." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
"El presente manual recoge, por un lado, lo que ya realizó en su momento Comunicación, misión y desafío,(1986) y lo que ofreció el manual de Comunicación para la pastoral y pastoral de la comunicación (1995), del Servicio Conjunto de Comunicación que agrupa las tres grandes organizaciones ca
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tólicas de comunicación: OCIC-AL, UCLAP y UNDA-AL, que tiene sede en Quito, Ecuador. El presente manual será de ahora en adelante una ayuda útil para quienes desean impulsaren América Latina una pastoral de la comunicación, siguiendo para ello lo largamente enseñado y afirmado por la voz de los Pastores de la Iglesia, y que encuentra su expresión en los diversos documentos donde se aborda este tema." (https://documental.celam.org)
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"This volume is designed to revolutionize the field of communication by identifying a broad ethical theory which transcends the world of mass media practice to reveal a more humane and responsible code of values. The contributors, representing a diverse range of intercultural perspectives, defend th
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e possibility of universal moral imperatives such as justice, reciprocity and human dignity. Through an examination of the values in which their cultures are grounded, they provide a short list of ethical principles which form the common ground from which to view contemporary issues in the media, interpersonal communication, mediation and conflict resolution." (Publisher description)
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