Media in the Middle East

Part I. On Media Activism and Political Involvement

1. Revisiting Cyberactivism Six Years after the Arab Spring: Potentials, Limitations and Future Prospects
Sahar Khamis

2. Constructing an Alternative Public Sphere: The Cultural Significance of Social Media in Iran
Gi Yeon Koo

3. You’ve Come A Long Way Baby: Women’s New Media Practices, Empowerment, and Everyday Life in Kuwait and the Middle East
Deborah L. Wheeler

Part II. On Governmental and Non-Governmental Media Organisations

4. Location, Regulation, and Media Production in the Arab World: A Case Study of Media Cities
Yushi Chiba

5. Preventing a Mobilization from Spreading: Assad and the Electronic War
Matthieu Rey

6. Spectacles of Terror: Media and the Cultural Production of Terrorism
Suzi Mirgani

Part III. Media, Culture and Language in the Middle East

7. Winning Hearts and Minds through Soft Power: The Case of Turkish Soap Operas in the Middle East
Jana Jabbour

8. Locating Emirati Filmmaking within Globalizing Media Ecologies
Dale Hudson

9. Protest Poetry On- and Offline: Trans-regional Interactions in the Arabian Gulf: An Example from Bahrain
Nele Lenze

10. Arabic in a Time of Revolution: Sociolinguistic Notes from Egypt
Ivan Panovic

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, Middle Eastern Culture, Middle Eastern Politics, Development Communication, Social Media