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The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an international
selection of expert contributions who consider the specific ways
media migrations test our understanding of, and means of
investigating, reality television across the globe. The book
addresses a wide range of topics, including: the global circulation
and local adaptation of reality television formats and franchises
the production of fame and celebrity around hitherto "ordinary"
people the transformation of self under the public eye the tensions
between fierce loyalties to local representatives and imagined
communities bonding across regional and ethnic divides the struggle
over the meanings and values of reality television across a range
of national, regional, gender, class and religious contexts. This
book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students
on a range of Media and Television Studies courses, particularly
those on the globalisation of television and media, and reality
television.
This book re-visits how we think about communication and power in
the global era. It takes stock of the last fifty years of
scholarship, maps key patterns and concepts and sets an agenda for
theory and research. The book addresses such questions as: How are
national and cultural identities re-fashioned and expressed in the
global era? How can we best understand the emergence of multiple
and sometimes antagonistic modernities worldwide? How are political
struggles fought and communicated on the local-national-global
nexus? How do we integrate emerging media environments in global
communication studies? Bringing together essays from a range of
internationally renowned scholars, this book will be useful to
undergraduate and postgraduate students on Media and Communication
Studies courses, particularly those studying globalisation and
global media. Contributors: Hector Amaya Paula Chakravartty Andrew
Crocco Myria Georgiou Le Han Aniko Imre Koichi Iwabuchi Marwan M.
Kraidy Sara Mourad Patrick D. Murphy Tarik Sabry Paddy Scannell
Piotr M. Szpunar Guobin Yang Barbie Zelizer
This book re-visits how we think about communication and power in
the global era. It takes stock of the last fifty years of
scholarship, maps key patterns and concepts and sets an agenda for
theory and research. The book addresses such questions as: How are
national and cultural identities re-fashioned and expressed in the
global era? How can we best understand the emergence of multiple
and sometimes antagonistic modernities worldwide? How are political
struggles fought and communicated on the local-national-global
nexus? How do we integrate emerging media environments in global
communication studies? Bringing together essays from a range of
internationally renowned scholars, this book will be useful to
undergraduate and postgraduate students on Media and Communication
Studies courses, particularly those studying globalisation and
global media. Contributors: Hector Amaya Paula Chakravartty Andrew
Crocco Myria Georgiou Le Han Aniko Imre Koichi Iwabuchi Marwan M.
Kraidy Sara Mourad Patrick D. Murphy Tarik Sabry Paddy Scannell
Piotr M. Szpunar Guobin Yang Barbie Zelizer
A Times Higher Education Book of the Year Uprisings spread like
wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a
desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and
elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing
dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire
that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that
sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything
to express themselves in rebellious art, The Naked Blogger of Cairo
uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab
uprisings. "A deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab
uprisings...Kraidy's sharp insights and rich descriptions of a new
Arab generation's irrepressible creative urges will amply reward
the effort. Reading Kraidy's accounts of the politically charted
cultural gambits of wired Arab youth rekindles some of the
seemingly lost spirit of the early days of the Arab uprisings and
offers hope for the future." -Marc Lynch, Washington Post "The
Naked Blogger of Cairo is a superb and important work not just for
scholars but for anyone who cares about the relationships between
art, the body, and revolution." -Hans Rollman, PopMatters
Reality television is global. Transnational television companies
and international distribution networks facilitate the worldwide
circulation of popular shows; the 1990s in particular saw the
growth of media companies that specialize in the development of
reality television formats that are easily adaptable to local
variations. While the industrial history of the global migrations
of reality television is well established, there has been less
consideration of the theoretical and methodological implications of
this expansion. The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an
international selection of expert contributions who consider the
specific ways these migrations test our understanding of, and means
of investigating, reality television across the globe. The book
addresses a wide range of topics, including: * the global
circulation and local adaptation of reality television formats and
franchises * the production of fame and celebrity around hitherto
"ordinary" people * the transformation of self under the public eye
* the tensions between fierce loyalties to local representatives
and imagined communities bonding across regional and ethnic divides
* the struggle over the meanings and values of reality television
across a range of national, regional, gender, class and religious
contexts. The Politics of Reality Television proposes ways in which
we can think through the international dimensions of reality
television in the context of highly mobile media, politics, and
publics. It offers a global, comparative examination of reality
television alongside empirical research about the genre, its
producers and consumers. This book will be of interest to
undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Media and
Television Studies courses, particularly those on the globalisation
of television and media, and reality television.
What does it mean to be modern outside the West? Based on a wealth
of primary data collected over five years, Reality Television and
Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive
mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fuelling heated polemics
over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political
participation in the Arab world. The controversies, Kraidy argues,
are best understood as a social laboratory in which actors
experiment with various forms of modernity, continuing a
long-standing Arab preoccupation with specifying terms of
engagement with Western modernity. Women and youth take center
stage in this process. Against the backdrop of dramatic upheaval in
the Middle East, this book challenges the notion of a monolithic
'Arab Street' and offers an original perspective on Arab media,
shifting attention away from a narrow focus on al-Jazeera, toward a
vibrant media sphere that compels broad popular engagement and
contentious political performance.
The Media Globe is a multifaceted look at contemporary trends in
media practices in regions beyond the United States, including
Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and
Australia. A diverse group of respected scholars follows the
emerging patterns in a variety of media worldwide, identifying the
existing and developing issues and the potential impacts on
democratic communication. They also assess the current tensions
between ongoing global media practices and local or regional
cultural norms. Using theoretical approaches such as
'glocalization,' hybridity, hegemony, cultural imperialism, and
world-systems theory, the authors consider alternative scenarios
for global communication that could better mesh with these cultural
norms and practices. Given the rapid global consolidation of media
and the resulting reform of its regulatory agencies, this
reassessment is a timely and important read.
The Media Globe is a multifaceted look at contemporary trends in
media practices in regions beyond the United States, including
Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and
Australia. A diverse group of respected scholars follows the
emerging patterns in a variety of media worldwide, identifying the
existing and developing issues and the potential impacts on
democratic communication. They also assess the current tensions
between ongoing global media practices and local or regional
cultural norms. Using theoretical approaches such as
"glocalization," hybridity, hegemony, cultural imperialism, and
world-systems theory, the authors consider alternative scenarios
for global communication that could better mesh with these cultural
norms and practices. Given the rapid global consolidation of media
and the resulting reform of its regulatory agencies, this
reassessment is a timely and important read.
What does it mean to be modern outside the West? Based on a wealth
of primary data collected over five years, Reality Television and
Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive
mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fuelling heated polemics
over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political
participation in the Arab world. The controversies, Kraidy argues,
are best understood as a social laboratory in which actors
experiment with various forms of modernity, continuing a
long-standing Arab preoccupation with specifying terms of
engagement with Western modernity. Women and youth take center
stage in this process. Against the backdrop of dramatic upheaval in
the Middle East, this book challenges the notion of a monolithic
'Arab Street' and offers an original perspective on Arab media,
shifting attention away from a narrow focus on al-Jazeera, toward a
vibrant media sphere that compels broad popular engagement and
contentious political performance.
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