New Media Configurations

This thoroughly researched book explores socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world, embedding them into current processes of mediatisation. The work is based on the assumption that social and cultural change never originates exclusively from the media or technological innovations, but rather depends on the changing conceptions with which people adopt media technologies and integrate them in their daily lives.

Besides the transregional exploration of new media configurations and changing media practices, the chapters discuss the specific political and social structures in the different local and national contexts as well as their translocal interconnectivities.

List of contents

Introduction
Nadja-Christina Schneider & Carola Richter
Part One: The Political Economy of Media
The Political Economy of Media: An Introduction
Carola Richter & Bettina Gräf
Who Holds Communication Power? An Analysis of Power Relations Shifts within the Media Reform in Myanmar
Melanie Radue & Lena Bullerdieck
Persisting Powers, Financial Shackles and Political Polarisation: TheEgyptian Media System in Transition
Nadia Leihs
Conformism in the Emirati Press: The State-Media Discourse on the Workforce Integration of Emirati Women
Almut Woller
After the Uprisings: Critical Reception of Empowered Arab Audiences
Omair Anas
Part Two: The Multiple Intersections of Religion and Media
The Multiple Intersections of Religion and Media: An Introduction
Patrick Eisenlohr
A Counter-Public of a Different Kind: Tajik Youth, Religious Authority and the Medialisation of Islam
Jeanine Elif Dagyeli
New Practices of Self-Representation: The Use of Online Media by Ahmadiyya and Shia Communities in Indonesia and Malaysia
Saskia Schäfer
Dakwah 2.0: Digital Dakwah, Street Dakwah and Cyber-Urban Activism among Chinese Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia
Hew Wai Weng
Applying the Lens of Mobility to Media and Gender Studies: An Introduction
Nadja-Christina Schneider
Media Mobility and Convergence within India's Matrimonial Market
Fritzi-Marie Titzmann
A Relationship with Benefits: Female Filmmakers Navigating Government Control in the United Arab Emirates
Xenia Tabitha Gleissner
Cultivating Demi-Idols: The Queer Convergence of New Media and Korean Dance Performance in Thailand
Dredge Byung'chu Käng
Changing Media Practices in a Digital Age: An Introduction
Marcus Michaelsen
Graffiti, Hypermedia and Heterotopia after the Arab Uprisings: New Media Practices and Configurations
Marwan M. Kraidy
Filming Kashmir: Emerging Documentary Practices
Max Kramer
List of Authors
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About the author

Nadja-Christina Schneider is Junior Professor at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, Germany.

Carola Richter is a Junior Professor for international communication at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Summary

This thoroughly researched book explores socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world, embedding them into current processes of mediatisation. The work is based on the assumption that social and cultural change never originates exclusively from the media or technological innovations, but rather depends on the changing conceptions with which people adopt media technologies and integrate them in their daily lives.

Besides the transregional exploration of new media configurations and changing media practices, the chapters discuss the specific political and social structures in the different local and national contexts as well as their translocal interconnectivities.

Foreword

A study of how new media has impacted social and cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carola Richter (Editor), Nadja-Christina Schneider (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 226 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science