"In this book, leading international scholars examine the way new media is reshaping lives and politics. Covering topics from women's rights to terrorism, and countries from Israel to Saudi Arabia, these authors explore the global and regional ramifications of the proliferation of communication tech
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nologies and the information they disseminate." (Publisher description)
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"[...] This authoritative book answers key questions about the connections between media and political change in the Arab world. Using research into, for example, practices of Internet users, journalists, demonstrators and producers of reality TV, it explores the interface between public interaction
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over the airwaves, at the polls and on the streets. A lively group of contributors explores such issues as whether young people are served well by new media, whether blogging is an influential political tool, whether satellite news helps or hinders diasporic communities politically, and much more." (Publisher description)
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"Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourse and social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus on Kuwait, Deborah L. Wheeler offers an intimate journ
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ey through the lives of women, youth, and Islamist Internet users, and through their testimonies shows what the Internet means to various Internet subcultures in the emirate. The book includes a historical overview of the values and design principles embedded in the Internet by its inventors and early adopters, and examines the major questions, debates, assumptions, and findings of the emerging field of Internet studies. Drawing on six years of research, including three years of fieldwork in Kuwait, Dubai, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, Wheeler provides a comparative overview of the meaning and manifestations of the Internet in the Middle East, giving careful attention to whether or not the Internet lives up to global expectations of promoting democracy, economic privatization, and personal freedom." (Publisher description)
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"Since September 11, 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many television viewers in the United States have become familiar with Al Jazeera as offering an alternative take on events from that presented by mainstream U.S. media, as well as disseminating anti-American invective. Westerners have
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tended toward simplistic views of Arab newspapers, radio, and television, assuming that they are all under government control and that freedom of press is non-existent. William A. Rugh, a long time observer of the Arab mass media, offers a more nuanced picture of the Arab press as it relates to the political situation in the Arab world today. Although governmental influence over the media is stronger in the Middle East than in Europe or the United States, Rugh argues that there is more diversity in the Arab media than most people in the West realize. In reality, the Arab media are coming to reflect the diversity and wide range of opinions of those within the Arab world itself. In particular, the advent of privately owned Arab satellite television in the 1990s has led to significant liberalization of the media throughout the region. Rugh concludes that a democracy of ideas and voices is slowly growing in the Arab world, and he remains guardedly optimistic about the positive role the Arab media can play in processes of democratization and nation-building." (Publisher description)
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"Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women fil
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mmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender boundaries have been erected or crossed." (Publisher description)
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"Nicht nur Medienkonsumenten, auch Redakteure und Journalisten fanden sich während des Golfkrieges in einem Mediengefängnis wieder, in dem sich mensch vollkommen eingenebelt fühlte und nicht mehr wußte, "wo es lang ging". Während er den Krieg scheinbar live am Bildschirm miterleben konnte, muß
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te mensch die Erfahrung machen, daran ausgeliefert zu sein, trotz aller Versuche und Bemühungen, keine Informationen über die tatsächlichen Hintergründe und Ereignisse des Krieges zu erhalten. Dabei begann die Desinformationskampagne nicht erst mit Inkrafttreten der Zensurbestimmungen Mitte Januar 1991, sondern die US-Regierung hat bereits in Vorbereitung auf den Krieg maßgebliche Informationen durch Zensur und Propaganda entstellt. Nach Einschätzung von Philip Knightley diente das Nachrichtenmanagement am Golf hauptsächlich drei Zielen: dem Feind Informationen vorzuenthalten, Unterstützung für den Krieg zu schaffen und die öffentliche Meinung über die Bedeutung des Krieges grundlegend zu verändern. In der Bundesrepublik, die am Golfkrieg zwar militärisch nicht beteiligt war, die ihn aber zu einem erheblichen Teil mitfinanzierte, kam diesem letztgenannten Ziel besondere Bedeutung zu. Tonangebende Politiker und Publizisten nutzten den Krieg, um die Debatte über die Neubegründung der Bundeswehr und über den Krieg als Mittel der Politik in Gang zu setzen. Das vorliegende Buch ist der medienpsychologischen Analyse der bundesdeutschen Golfkriegsberichterstattung gewidmet und untersucht, wie diese Neubewertung des Krieges durch die Berichterstattung am Golf vorbereitet wurde und welche Auswirkungen dies auf die Medienkonsumenten hatte." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Against a background of the historical, religious, geographical, climatic, political, economic and linguistic factors that make radio and television unique as they affect its development, Boyd discusses broadcasting in the Arab League countries - Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordon, North Yeme
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n, South Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia (omitting Somalia and Mauritania). Egypt and Saudi Arabia are covered in more detail than the other countries. The bulk of the book is taken up with these individual descriptions; an introduction discusses Arab broadcasting in general - its developments, trends and constraints - and concluding sections are concerned with international radio broadcasting in Arabic and with problems within Arab broadcasting. There is a bibliography of printed sources of various kinds and a listing of the author's personal communications. Index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 522)
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"L'interdiction de « Al Talcea » est une mise en exécution des mesures prises par le gouvernement dans le cadre d'un contrôle de la presse — La presse koweïtienne est dirigée en grande partie par des ressortissants étrangers qui incita le gouvernement à exercer un contrôle assez étroit d
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e la presse, vu le caractère inévitablement hétérogène de cette presse." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1185, topic code 110.1)
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"Brief exposé sur le cinéma et la télévision au Koweit — Naissance du cinéma et de la télévision en 1961 — Extension — Réalisations, en général, et dans le domaine éducatif et sanitaire." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. B
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russels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 744, topic code 310.321.1)
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"Il s'agit du compte rendu de la « Table Ronde 1964 ' (voir titre) — Y sont réunis le texte des exposés et rapports présentés et recommandations finales — Voici la troisième table ronde — Le cercle des participants s'élargit, de même que celui des observateurs — Le Koweit, la Jordani
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e et l'Irak ont apporté, cette fois-ci, à leur tour leur contribution — Ils ont ainsi présenté des rapports sur la situation du cinéma et de la télévision dans leurs pays respectifs et les problèmes qu'elle pose — Le Soudan' s'est joint aux autres pays cités dans le premier et le second volume des deux conférences précédentes — Parmi les nouveaux venus comme observateurs de pays étrangers: Brésil, Canada, Ethiopie, Inde, Pologne, Tchécoslovaquie." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 481, topic code 310.1)
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