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 ...
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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. 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.
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Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 213 p. Contains: Illustrations. Indiana Series in Middle East Studies (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Paperback 213 pages, very good condition, cover slightly worn. PLEASE NOTE: first page with one edge torn and missing.
