New media in the Muslim world : the emerging public sphere

Author(s)

• Eickelman, Dale F.
• Anderson, Jon W.

Bibliographic Information

New media in the Muslim world : the emerging public sphere

edited by Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson

（Indiana series in Middle East studies）

Indiana University Press, c1999

• cl : alk. paper
• pa : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Today's new media - including fax machines, satellite television, and the Internet - and new uses of older media - audio and video cassettes, cinema, pulp fiction, the telephone, and the press - are dramatically reshaping politics and culture in Muslim societies. Exploited by grassroots and other populist groups, new media have fostered pluralism and encouraged the development of new public spheres, new ways of interpreting Islam, and new community networks. Both in Muslim-majority states and elsewhere, "small" and "alternative" media have been closely associated with educated Muslims searching for new directions and identities. "New Media in the Muslim World" considers the social organisation of communication and the changing social and political landscape in which different media operate throughout the Middle East and beyond. Drawing on a wide variety of topics from Egyptian film, Turkish web sites, and African-American Muslim pamphlets to Bangladeshi "Muslim" bodice-rippers and Indonesian legal reasoning, these lively essays offer fresh perspectives on how Muslims have adapted local and international media to communicate independently from official governments and mainstream religion. Fresh insights on the extent to which today's new media have transcended local and state boundaries and worked to reform notions of gender, authority, justice and politics in Muslim societies emerge from this provocative book.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Transliteration 1. Redefining Muslim Publics by Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson 2. The New Media, Civic Pluralism, and the Slowly Retreating State by Richard Augustus Norton 3. Communication and Control in the Middle East: Publication and Its Discontents by Dale F. Eickelman 4. The Internet and Islam's New Interpreters by Jon W. Anderson 5. Muslim Identities and the Great Chain of Buying by Gregory Starrett 6. Legal Reasoning and Public Discourse in Indonesian Islam by John R. Bowen 7. Bourgeois Leisure and Egyptian Media Fantasies by Walter Armbrust 8. From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh by Maimuna Huq 9. Amplifying Trust: Community and Communication in Turkey by Jenny B. White 10. Media Identities for Alevis and Kurds in Turkey by M. Hakan Yavuz Glossary
• Contributors
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BA44464942
• ISBN:
  • 0253335752
  • 0253213290
• LCCN: 99012409
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 213 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP185.7
  • DC21 : 302.23/0917/671
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Communication -- Religious aspects -- Islam
  • LCSH : Communication -- Social aspects -- Islamic countries
  • LCSH : Communication policy -- Islamic countries
  • LCSH : Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- Islamic countries
  • LCSH : Mass media in Islam
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA4251143X