Civic Discourse and Digital Age Communications in the Middle East

Herausgeber: Amin, Hussein Y.; Gher, Leo A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work is a collection of the best research reports and essays gathered globally by the editors over a three-year period. World-renowned experts from the Arab region as well as the West have authored most of the chapters. Seven sections divide the text, and each investigates compelling, timely questions for today's communication professionals. Because of its focus on communications and new media, this volume may be used at colleges and universities worldwide. It will impact numerous academic disciplines and the professional world as well. A wide range of curricula may adopt the text as supplementary reading for courses in political science, speech and rhetoric, public relations, sociology, communications, journalism, diplomacy and government.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781567504736
• ISBN-10: 1567504736
• Artikelnr.: 21571991

Autorenporträt

LEO A. GHER is Associate Professor and Director fo the Brown Media Management Lab housed at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale,Illinois. Director Gher is credited with nore than 75 educational and professional presentations and publications. He is member of the editorial board of Transitional Broadcasting Studies and is author of a forthcoming text, The Art & Science of Media Economics:Marketing & Management Strategies for the 21st Century. GHer comes to academia from a professional background,and is widely recognized as an expert in media economics,cross-cultural communications,and management. HUSSEIN Y. AMIN is Associate Professor and Senior Fellow in the School of Business,Economics and Communications at the American University in Cairo. He is founding board member of the Arab-U.S. Assocaition for Communication Educators,the senior editor of Transitional Broadcasting Studies, on the editorial board of the Journal of African Studies, and memebr fo the advisory board of the Journal of International Communication. Dr. Amin is acknowledged as the foremost authority on Arab media regulation and privatization,and global braodcasting in developing countries.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From the Heartland of America Leo A Gher Introduction: From
the Banks of the Nile Hussein Y. Amin Diplomacy, Transnational
Communications, and Mediated Discourse Television and Civic Discourse in
Postwar Lebanon Marwan M. Kraidy Why Kids Want Their MTV: A Cross-Cultural
Perspective Rasha A Abdulla Internet Pornography: Between Constitutionality
and Morality Mohammed el-Nawawy Western Cultural Invasion: Myth of Monster?
Media Images of Arabs, Muslims, and the Middle East in the United States
Yahya R. Kamalipour Arab/Islam Phobia; The Making of the Media in the West
Issam Suleiman Mousa Cyberspace Digital Technologies: An Overview
Information Technology, Democracy and Development: An Overview ALi A.
Attiga Arab Countries' Global Telephone Traffic Networks James A. Danowski
IDigital Communications in the Arab World Entering the 21st Century Hussein
Y. Amin and Leo A. Gher uilding Second-Language Skills for Journalism
Students:Using the World Wide Web to Edit Student Stories Long Distance
Roger Gafke and Ronald Naeger New Electronic Arab Newspapers: Techniques
and Distribution Shems Freidlander Privatization of Media in the Middle
East Singing the Arab Market Economy's Notes Jihad Fakhreddine
Telecommunications Management in the Arab World: The Case History of Arab
Radio and Television Leo. A Gher and Walid Arab Hashem A Q Study of
Reactions to Direct Broadcast Satellite Television Programming in Saudia
Arabia Safran A al-Makaty, Douglas A. Boyd and G. Norman Van Tubergen New
Journalism: The Online Environment and Law Within the Limits of the Law:
Press Law 1995-Arafat's Answer to Freedom Press Carolyn Crimmins Egyptian
Press Journalists' Professional Standards and the Challenge of
Privatization Yorck van Korff Egyptian and Palestinian Press Laws:
Prospects and Concerns James J. Napoli, Carolyn Crimmins, and Leonard Ray
Teel Cultural Treatment of International Events: A Content Analysis of
American and Egyptian Newscasting Mohammed el-Nawawy Global Forum:
Dialogues for the New Millenium Culture and Communication: A Global
Information Society Abdullah Hasanat he Role of Cyber Cafes in Developing
Internet Literacy in Egypt Ahmed Mohammed el-Gody The Role of the Media in
the Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediteranean Ahmed Bedjaoui The Price of
Private Media Around the World: Picking Up Where Textbooks Stop Craig Allen
ulture aand Communication in the Global Information Society Kamel Abu Jaber
elling Oil to Arabs Jihad Fakhreddine Author and Subject Index