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Eickelman - New Media in the Muslim World, Second Edition: The Emerging Public Sphere - 9780253216052 - V9780253216052
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New Media in the Muslim World, Second Edition: The Emerging Public Sphere

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Description for New Media in the Muslim World, Second Edition: The Emerging Public Sphere Paperback. How today's newest media are reshaping Muslim societies. Editor(s): Eickelman, Dale F.; Anderson, Jon W. Series: Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 335.

"It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject." —Digest of Middle East Studies

This second edition of a widely acclaimed collection of essays reports on how new media—fax machines, satellite television, and the Internet—and the new uses of older media—cassettes, pulp fiction, the cinema, the telephone, and the press—shape belief, authority, and community in the Muslim world. The chapters in this work, including new chapters dealing specifically with events after September 11, 2001, concern Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, and Muslim communities in the United States and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Series
Indiana Series in Middle East Studies
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253216052
SKU
V9780253216052
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About Eickelman
Dale F. Eickelman is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College. His recent publications include The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, 4th Edition, and Muslim Politics (co-authored with James Piscatori). Jon W. Anderson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at The Catholic University of America and co-director of the Arab ... Read more

Reviews for New Media in the Muslim World, Second Edition: The Emerging Public Sphere
[T]he contributors to this collection have convincingly placed the forces of change introduced into Muslim societies by the modern media in precisely the right context-at the center of cultural developments. It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject.Summer 2000
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