the aid library

LIST OPTIONS

Filter

1590

Sort by:

Direction:

External Link (8)

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (8)

De-centring Western enlightenment: revisionist histories, contestation and communication theory

Shakuntala Banaji

Javnost: the public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (6)

Digital Middle East: state and society in the information age

Mohamed Zayani (ed.)

New York; Qatar: Oxford University Press; Georgetown University (2018), xii, 335 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-190859329

"Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the MENA region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are p... more

External Link (25)

Google Scholar (17)

WorldCat (18)

Children's TV and digital media in the Arab world: childhood, screen culture and education

Naomi Sakr; Jeanette Steemers (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2017), xiii, 248 pp., bibliogr. p.227-241

ISBN 978-1-78453-505-6 (pbk); 978-1-35098-567-4 (online); 978-1-78673-093-0 (pdf)

"Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at child... more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (7)

Arab book publishing

Christof Galli

In: Library and information science in the Middle East and North Africa

De Gruyter Saur (2016), pp. 1-27

"The persistence of print publishing means that librarians must continue to collect and pay attention to publishing developments in this type of material. The fractured environment and lack of unified distribution mechanisms, a situation that is only exacerbated by ongoing turmoil in the region will... more

External Link (15)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (11)

Social media in the Arab world: communication and public opinion in the Gulf states

Barrie Gunter; Mokhtar Elareshi; Khalid Al-Jaber (eds.)

London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp., bibliogr. p.239-257, index

ISBN 978-0-85772-835-7

"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp... more

Arabische Medien

Carola Richter; Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)

Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), 344 pp.

ISBN 978-3-86764-509-6

"Im Fokus des ersten Teils stehen transnationale Phänomene wie die Bedeutung des Satellitenfernsehens und der Sozialen Medien sowie die Rolle von Minderheiten, Gender und Islamisten in den Medien. Diese Beiträge geben den aktuellen Stand der Forschung wieder und reflektieren diesen. Im zweiten Tei... more

External Link (15)

Google Scholar (12)

WorldCat (10)

Arab media moguls

Donatella Della Ratta; Naomi Sakr; Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2015), xiii, 233 pp., bibliogr. p.223-228, index

ISBN 978-1-78076-732-1 (pbk); 978-1-7845-3277-2 (hbk); 978-0-7556-0854-6 (online)

"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r... more

External Link (17)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (9)

Mediensysteme im internationalen Vergleich

Barbara Thomaß (ed.)

Konstanz: UVK (2013) 2nd ed., 378 pp., index

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (7)

Arab cultural studies: mapping the field

Tarik Sabry (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2012), xiv, 321 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-8488-5558-8 (pbk); 978-0-7556-1115-7 (online)

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (7)

Islamic fundamentalism in Arab television: Islamism and Salafism in competition

Jakob Skoovgard-Petersen

In: Fundamentalism in the modern world. Vol. 2: Fundamentalism and communication: culture, media and the public sphere

Ulrika Mårtensson; Jennifer Bailey; Priscilla Ringrose; Asbjorn Dyrendal (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2011), pp. 264-291

"Within less than 20 years, the number of Arabic-language satellite channels has risen from zero to more than 500, including channels financed by the US, Russia, China, the UK and France. Some 50 of these channels label themselves as Islamic (and a handful are Christian) , but Islamic programming is... more

External Link (8)

Google Scholar (6)

WorldCat (4)

The new Arab journalist: mission and identity in a time of turmoil

Lawrence Pintak

London; New York: Tauris (2011), xii, 287 pp., tables, bibliogr. p.267-272, index

ISBN 978-1-84885-098-9 (pbk); 978-0-75561-064-8 (online)

"Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in... more

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (6)

Crafting the Arab media for peace-building: donors, dialogue and disasters

Bruce Stanley

In: Arab media and political renewal: community, legitimacy and public life

Naomi Sakr (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2007), pp. 135-153

"From small beginnings in the 1960s, Western governments and international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) are today spending huge sums on media intervention in Arab countries, to the point where such intervention has become an industry. Among the plethora of media projects aimed at moulding ... more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (9)

Arab television today

Naomi Sakr

New York: Tauris (2007), x, 262 pp., bibliogr. p.239-248, index

ISBN 978-1-84511-563-0 (hbk); 978-1-84511-564-7 (pbk); 978-0-75561-007-5 (online)

"There is a great deal at stake for everyone in the future of Arab television. Political and social upheavals in this central but unsettled region are increasingly played out on television screens and in the tussles over programming that take place behind them. Al-Jazeera is of course only one playe... more

The ethical soundscape: cassette sermons and Islamic counterpublics

Charles Hirschkind

New York: Columbia University Press (2006), xiii, 270 pp., bibliogr. p.247-264, index

ISBN 0231138180 (print); 0231510888 (ebook)

"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... more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (6)

Muslims and the news media

Elizabeth Poole; John E. Richardson (eds.)

London: Tauris (2006), xv, 257 pp., figures, tables, bibliogr. p.218-232, index

ISBN 978-1-84511-171-7 (hbk); 978-0-85771-496-1 (ebook); 978-1-84511-172-4 (pbk)

"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... more

External Link (13)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (8)

Transnational television worldwide: towards a new media order

Jean K. Chalaby (ed.)

London et al.: Tauris (2005), viii, 264 pp., tables, index

"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... more

External Link (27)

Google Scholar (16)

WorldCat (21)

Women and media in the Middle East: power through self-expression

Naomi Sakr (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2004), viii, 248 pp., bibliogr. p.228-240, index

"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... more