UID:
kobvindex_HPB895258340
Format:
1 online resource (150 pages)
Edition:
1 edition.
ISBN:
9783653048353
,
3653048354
Content:
Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media or in one of the approximately 135 religious satellite channels that broadcast guidance and entertainment with an Islamic frame of reference. How do Arab audiences make use of mediated religion in negotiations of identity and belonging? The empirical based case studies in this interdisciplinary volu.
Note:
Where has the authority gone? : new imperatives and audience research / Ehab Galal -- Audience responses to Islamic TV : between resistance and piety / Ehab Galal -- Cyber religious-national community? : the case of Arab community in Germany / Khalil Rinnawi -- Maghrebi audiences : mapping the divide between Arab sentiment, Islamic belonging and political praxis / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa -- Religious media as a cultural discourse : the views of Arab diaspora in London / Noha Mellor -- Watching the history of the "present" : religion and national identity in the Egyptian diaspora / Vivian Ibrahim -- Minority religion mediated : contesting representation / Lise Paulsen Galal -- About the contributors.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Arab TV-audiences. ISBN 9783631656112
Language:
English
