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New Media in the Muslim World The Emerging Public Sphere

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ISBN-10: 0253335752

ISBN-13: 9780253335753

Edition: N/A

Authors: Dale F. Eickelman, Jon W. Anderson

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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 elsewhere. The extent to which today's new media have transcended local and state frontiers and have reshaped understandings of gender, authority, social justice,…    
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/8/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.50" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Robert J. Shiller is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University. Also the author of the award-winning "Macro Markets" as well as "Market Volatility", he lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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 Information Project at Georgetown University. He is author of Arabizing the Internet.

Preface
Note on Transliteration
Redefining Muslim Publics
The New Media, Civic Pluralism, and the Slowly Retreating State
Communication and Control in the Middle East: Publication and Its Discontents
The Internet and Islam's New Interpreters
Muslim Identities and the Great Chain of Buying
Legal Reasoning and Public Discourse in Indonesian Islam
Bourgeois Leisure and Egyptian Media Fantasies
From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh
Amplifying Trust: Community and Communication in Turkey
Media Identities for Alevis and Kurds in Turkey
Glossary
Contributors
Index