"This article analyses German public diplomacy efforts via international broadcasting to the Arab world post-9/11. After defining the field’s major relevant concepts and models and pointing out the conceptual convergence of public relations and public diplomacy, the article presents a critical ana
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lysis of the requirements of dialogue drawing on Habermas’s (1984) Theory of Communicative Action. For the time being, the question whether Germany’s broadcast public diplomacy in the Arab world is based on ‘dialogue’, as has been posited by the main protagonists, needs to be answered cautiously. What is visible is a determination of Deutsche Welle to at least present a quest for dialogue as a projection of the country’s national values, policies, self-image and underlying myth. The invocation of ‘dialogue’ via DW may reflect a reassertion of the very self-image Germany feels most comfortable with: that of the Open-minded Society of Consensus as the country’s grand narrative." (Abstract)
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"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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iences thus reflecting the entire cycle of the communication process and revealing the ways in which meaning is produced and reproduced in the news media. Looking closely at the circumstances and politics surrounding the representation of Muslims across a wide range of journalistic genres, at the presence and influence of Muslims in the processes of news production, and the ways in which audiences, both Muslim and non-Muslim, consume this media, the book brings together coherently a wide range of perspectives to provide crucial insights into the representation - and misrepresentation - of Islam and Muslims today." (Publisher description)
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"Seit den kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen in Afghanistan und im Nahen Osten ist der Fernsehsender Al-Jazeera, der 1996 seinen Betrieb aufgenommen hat, auch im Westen als wichtige Informationsquelle bekanntgeworden.Der Sender mit Sitz in Katar erhebt den Anspruch, der einzige politisch unabhängig
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e Fernsehsender im Nahen Osten zu sein. Dies hat ihn zum Ziel zahlreicher Anschuldigungen von seiten arabischer Regierungen, aber auch der US-Regierung gemacht.Vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt erstmals in deutscher Sprache die Arbeit dieses Fernsehsenders und seinen Einfluss in der arabischen Welt.Besonderen Raum nimmt die gründliche Analyse der Rolle ein, die der Sender im Krieg gegen den Terrorismus gespielt hat.Der Verfasser hat seine gründliche Arbeit auch im direkten Kontakt mit den Verantwortlichen von Al-Jazeera recherchiert.Seine Arbeit liefert einen wichtigen Beitrag zur politischen Entwicklung im nahen Osten." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"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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en recalibrated to a modern political and technological order - to its noise and forms of pleasure and boredom, but also to its political incitements and call for citizen participation. Contrary to the belief that Islamic cassette sermons are a tool of militant indoctrination, Hirschkind argues that sermon tapes serve as an instrument of ethical self-improvement and as a vehicle for honing the sensibilities and affects of pious living. Focusing on Cairo's popular neighborhoods, Hirschkind highlights the pivotal role these tapes now play in an expanding arena of Islamic argumentation and debate - what he calls an "Islamic counterpublic." This emerging arena connects Islamic traditions of ethical discipline to practices of deliberation about the common good, the duties of Muslims as national citizens, and the challenges faced by diverse Muslim communities around the globe." (Publisher description)
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"This book is the first to offer a global perspective on the unique contemporary media phenomenon of transnational television channels. It is also the first to compare their impact in different regions of the globe. Revealing great richness and diversity across some of the world’s main geocultural
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regions (Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Greater China and Latin America), international contributors with in-depth industry knowledge examine the place of these channels in the process of globalization, their impact on the nation-state and on regional culture and politics. The book also considers audiences and geocultural TV markets, providing new ways of thinking about the emerging transnational media order." (Publsiher)
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"Each of the eleven chapters in Quoting God pairs an academic and a journalist. First, the scholar holds forth, followed by a "View from the News Desk." Together, they represent many and diverse voices. Badaracco's book shows the relationship between media culture and spiritual culture, recognizing
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how news and religious values influence political life, and how science, modernity, and disbelief come together to suggest social fragmentation or consolidation. Through the media, audiences learn, often with passion, what they believe, what they resist religiously, how to respect other religious ideas, and how to construct their own religious identity in a world of both mediated and actual communities. The book's conceptual and theoretical frame addresses emerging religions as well as traditional faiths. The first four chapters focus on the legal and constitutional frames informing national identity and the ideological climates of newsrooms where journalists "construct the mediated religious public square" (Page 14). The next four chapters discuss cross-cultural reporting in which a reporter navigates between two (or more) cultures in the required roles of being fair and balanced. The next three chapters explore faith and reason, science and religion, and the complexity of religious issues. The volume concludes with Gustav Niebuhr, formerly with the New York Times and now a member of the academy at Syracuse University, summing up the care and commitment of the journalist who covers religion in American life." (https://www.h-net.org/reviews)
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"Alors que les pays du monde arabe subissent les effets d’une instabilité politique, l’intérêt ou les inquiétudes qu’ils suscitent en Occident ont permis au grand public de découvrir les chaînes satellitaires de la région, dont la plus connue est sans nul doute Al-Jazeera. Mais quel est
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justement l’impact de ce média ? Quel rôle joue-t-il ? Quelles représentations véhicule-t-il ? De quelle société se fait-il le porte-parole ? Si Al-Jazeera est quelque peu atypique, la tentation reste grande néanmoins de l’opposer à l’écrasante majorité des autres chaînes de la région pour noter à quel point elle est “ démocratique ” et donc… à quel point les autres ne le sont pas… L’intérêt majeur de cette étude est de dépasser enfin les limites de ce type de raisonnement en prenant pour point de départ deux postulats : le premier est la nécessité de ne pas séparer les médias des sociétés desquelles ils sont issus (et donc des processus historiques qui traversent ces sociétés) ; le second consiste à appréhender les médias arabes comme un système (on ne peut les comprendre et comprendre leur mutation qu’en analysant comment ils se développent les uns en relation avec les autres). L’accent est mis sur le cas égyptien pour illustrer la réflexion et montrer comment l’évolution d’un système médiatique particulier est bien le fruit d’un ensemble complexe de contraintes et d’opportunités, venant tant de l’intérieur que de l’extérieur du territoire national, et impliquant tant l’État que les acteurs du secteur privé. Enfin un ouvrage de référence en français, extrêmement documenté, qui pose les jalons d’une recherche sur les médias arabes." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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