Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring, 2014 The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication Series

Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made the Arab uprisings possible.

Publics, Imaginaries, Soft Power, and Epistemologies on the Eve of the Arab Uprisings; Leila Hudson and Adel Iskandar SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL CULTURE 1. Arab Media, Political Stagnation, and Civil Engagement: Reflections on the Eve of the Arab Spring; Mohamed Zayani 2. New Media, Social Change, and the Communication Revolution in an Egyptian Village; Sahar Khamis 3. Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent; Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey 4. From Brotherhood to Blogosphere: Dynamics of Cyberactivism and Identity in the Egyptian Ikhwan; Courtney Radsch NEW GENRES AND LITERACIES 5. Preaching Islam to the Video Game Generation: New Media Literacies and Religious Edutainment in the Arab World; Vit Sisler 6. Neopatriarchy in Syrian and Turkish Television Drama: Between the Culture Industry and the Dialect Imagination; Leila Hudson 7. Media Fatwas and Fatwa Editors: Challenging and Preserving Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Religious Authority; Bettina Gräf 8. Technology Literacies of the New Media: Phrasing the World in the 'Arab Easy' (R)evolution; Yves Gonzalez-Quijano GLOBAL EFFECTS 9. BBC Broadcasting in the Middle East: The Evolution of Public Diplomacy; Annabelle Sreberny 10. New Media and Public Diplomacy in the New Arab World; Philip Seib 11. Al Jazeera English as a Conciliatory Medium; Mohammed el-Nawawy and Shawn Powers 12. Imagined Coherence: Transnational Media and the Arab Diaspora in Europe; Khalil Rinnawi EVOLUTION OF MEDIA THEORIES 13. The State of Arab Journalism Studies; Noha Mellor 14. Arab and Western Media Systems Typologies; Kai Hafez 15. Defying Definition: Toward Reflexivity in 'Arab Media' Studies; Adel Iskandar

Bruce Etling, Harvard University, USA and University of Oxford, UK Robert Faris, Harvard University, USA Yves Gonzalez-Quijano, Lumière Lyon 2 University, France Bettina Gräf, Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Germany Kai Hafez, University of Erfurt, Germany Leila Hudson, University of Arizona, USA Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser University, USA John Kelly, Morningside Analytics Sahar Khamis, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Mimi Kirk, Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., USA Mohammed el-Nawawy, Queens University of Charlotte, USA Noha Mellor, Bedfordshire University, UK John Palfrey, Phillips Academy, Andover, USA and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, USA Shawn Powers, Georgia State University, USA Courtney C. Radsch, journalist and scholar Khalil Rinnawi, Tel Aviv University, USA Philip Seib, University of Southern California, USA Vit Sisler, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Annabelle Sreberny, SOAS, University of London, UK Mohamed Zayani, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.