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Terrorism inspires intense emotions of fear, vulnerability,
victimization, and helplessness that breed humiliation and shame
and demands for redress by the victims-restoring the wounded honor
through revenge and military action. The post-9/11 environment of
the "global war on terrorism" has exacerbated these vicious cycles
of conflict. It also created a media battleground in which
conflating Islam with terrorism and deploying a religious lexicon
of jihad, martyrdom, and sacrifice have become routine. Yet,
scholarship on the relationship between Arab media and terrorism is
sparse-despite the salience of terrorism and other forms of
politically motivated violence in the greater Middle East and North
Africa region. How does Arab news cover "home-grown" or domestic
terrorism in comparison to terrorist incidents that might be
geographically distant? How does globalization influence the
mediation of terrorism in Arab news? This book addresses these
lacunae and features a wide range of studies examining coverage of
terrorism in Arab media. The case studies investigate
technological, political, sociological, and legal infrastructures
influencing the ways Arab media make sense of terrorism and
international conflict events. The research contributes to the
understanding of news frames as central to how terrorism news
operates, constructs and thereby explains the social world through
familiar master narratives drawn from the region's culture and
history.
This book looks into the role played by mediated communication,
particularly new and social media, in shaping various forms of
struggles around power, identity and religion at a time when the
Arab world is going through an unprecedented period of turmoil and
upheaval. The book provides unique and multifocal perspectives on
how new forms of communication remain at the centre of historical
transformations in the region. The key focus of this book is not to
ascertain the extent to which new communication technologies have
generated the Arab spring or led to its aftermaths, but instead
question how we can better understand many types of articulations
between communication technologies, on the one hand, and forms of
resistance, collective action, and modes of expression that have
contributed to the recent uprisings and continue to shape the
social and political upheavals in the region on the other. The book
presents original perspectives and rigorous analysis by specialists
and academics from around the world that will certainly enrich the
debate around major issues raised by recent historical events.
This book investigates the interplay between media, politics,
religion, and culture in shaping Arabs' quest for more stable and
democratic governance models in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring"
uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates,
specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their
potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors
systematically explore and critique these online communities and
spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies,
largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic
discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, and a
computational assessment of online engagement, among other topics.
While transitioning from autocracy to democracy, media in Africa
has always played an important role in democratic and
non-democratic states; focusing on politicians, diplomats,
activists, and others who work towards political transformations.
New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa
addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools
and its influence on social and political change. While analyzing
democratic transitions and cultures with a theoretical perspective,
this book also presents case studies and national experiences for
media, new media, and democracy scholars and practitioners.
This book investigates the interplay between media, politics,
religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ quest for more stable and
democratic governance models in the aftermath of the “Arab
Spring” uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates,
specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their
potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors
systematically explore and critique these online communities and
spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies,
largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic
discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, and a
computational assessment of online engagement, among other topics.
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