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This work is a collection of the best research reports and essays gathered globally by the editors over a three-year period. World-renowned experts from the Arab region as well as the West have authored most of the chapters. Seven sections divide the text, and each investigates compelling, timely questions for today's communication professionals. Because of its focus on communications and new media, this volume may be used at colleges and universities worldwide. It will impact numerous academic disciplines and the professional world as well. A wide range of curricula may adopt the text as supplementary reading for courses in political science, speech and rhetoric, public relations, sociology, communications, journalism, diplomacy and government.
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Introduction: From the Heartland of America Leo A Gher
Introduction: From the Banks of the Nile Hussein Y. Amin
Diplomacy, Transnational Communications, and Mediated DiscourseTelevision and Civic Discourse in Postwar Lebanon Marwan M. Kraidy
Why Kids Want Their MTV: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Rasha A Abdulla
Internet Pornography: Between Constitutionality and Morality Mohammed el-Nawawy
Western Cultural Invasion: Myth of Monster?Media Images of Arabs, Muslims, and the Middle East in the United States Yahya R. Kamalipour
Arab/Islam Phobia; The Making of the Media in the West Issam Suleiman Mousa
Cyberspace Digital Technologies: An OverviewInformation Technology, Democracy and Development: An Overview ALi A. Attiga
Arab Countries' Global Telephone Traffic Networks James A. Danowski
IDigital Communications in the Arab World Entering the 21st Century Hussein Y. Amin and Leo A. Gher
uilding Second-Language Skills for Journalism Students:Using the World Wide Web to Edit Student Stories Long Distance Roger Gafke and Ronald Naeger
New Electronic Arab Newspapers: Techniques and Distribution Shems Freidlander
Privatization of Media in the Middle EastSinging the Arab Market Economy's Notes Jihad Fakhreddine
Telecommunications Management in the Arab World: The Case History of Arab Radio and Television Leo. A Gher and Walid Arab Hashem
A Q Study of Reactions to Direct Broadcast Satellite Television Programming in Saudia Arabia Safran A al-Makaty, Douglas A. Boyd and G. Norman Van Tubergen
New Journalism: The Online Environment and LawWithin the Limits of the Law: Press Law 1995-Arafat's Answer to Freedom Press Carolyn Crimmins
Egyptian Press Journalists' Professional Standards and the Challenge of Privatization Yorck van Korff
Egyptian and Palestinian Press Laws: Prospects and Concerns James J. Napoli, Carolyn Crimmins, and Leonard Ray Teel
Cultural Treatment of International Events: A Content Analysis of American and Egyptian Newscasting Mohammed el-Nawawy
Global Forum: Dialogues for the New MilleniumCulture and Communication: A Global Information Society Abdullah Hasanat
he Role of Cyber Cafes in Developing Internet Literacy in Egypt Ahmed Mohammed el-Gody
The Role of the Media in the Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediteranean Ahmed Bedjaoui
The Price of Private Media Around the World: Picking Up Where Textbooks Stop Craig Allen
ulture aand Communication in the Global Information Society Kamel Abu Jaber
elling Oil to Arabs Jihad Fakhreddine
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Hussein Y. Amin, Leo A. Gher
