Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 374 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0745324185
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0745324193
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1849642850
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9780745324180
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9780745324197
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9781849642859
Inhalt:
There exists today a tragic rift between Americans and the world's Muslims. Each views the other with suspicion and anger. Yet in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there was widespread sympathy for the U.S. in the great arc of Muslim nations from West Africa to Southeast Asia. This book explores what happened. It examines the disconnect that leads Americans and Muslims around the world to view the same words and images in fundamentally different ways. Partly a result of a centuries-old 'us' against 'them' dichotomy and an essential difference in worldview, the problem is exacerbated by an increasingly polarised media and by leaders on both sides who either don't understand or don't care what impact their words and policies have in the world at large. Journalist-scholar Lawrence Pintak, a former CBS News Middle East correspondent, argues that the Arab media revolution and the rise of "patriot-journalists" in the US marginalized voices of moderation, distorting perceptions on both sides of the divide with potentially disastrous results. Built on the author's extensive journalistic experience, the book is carefully grounded in contemporary academic scholarship -- including Orientalism, othering, worldview, media effects theory and framing theory, amongst others -- giving it broad appeal to policymakers, students of such fields as media studies, Middle East studies and Islamic studies, and general current affairs readers
Inhalt:
Introduction: Worldview, Identity and the Other -- SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP -- In the Eye of the Beholder -- U.S. Coverage of Islam -- The Arab and Muslim Media -- SECTION II: THE FRAMING OF AN ERA -- Rhetoric, Religion and Righteousness -- The Myth of Terror and the Terror of Myth -- Enemies, Allies and Other Artificial Constructs -- SECTION III: PERCEPTIONS OF POLICY -- Weaponizing the Media -- Prism of Pain: Palestine -- Rewriting the Script: Iraq -- SECTION IV: HEARTS AND MINDS -- Beyond the Middle East -- Brand America -- Symbols of Empire -- Epilogue: Beyond Us and Them
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pintak, Larry Reflections in a bloodshot lens London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto, 2006
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Englisch
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