Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean
This edited volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey, and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the regions upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and hybrid-authoritarian systems of the Middle East.
In this volume, media scholars focus on three themes: the medias structure as an expression of governance, the medias function as a reflection of the market, and the medias agency in communicating between power and the public. The result is a unique addition to the literature on two counts. First, analysis of similar players, issues, and processes in each country enables a thematically consistent comparative assessment of the medias role across the southern Mediterranean region. This unique cross-country comparison of specific media practices in different Middle East states covers issues such as women in talk shows, medias relationship with surveillance, and political practices of media regulation. Second, actualizing the idea that media reflects the society that produces it, the studies here draw on field data to lay the foundations for a new theory of media, Values and Status Negotiation (VSN), which evolved from the regions unique characteristics and practices, and offer an alternative to prevailing Western-centric approaches to media analysis.
Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean will appeal to students and scholars of politics, sociology, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.
Roxane Farmanfarmaian is the Director of International Relations and Global Studies at the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Lecturer on Modern Middle East Politics at Cambridge Universitys Department of Politics and International Studies.
History and Society in the Islamic World
Series editors: Anoushiravan Ehteshami, University of Durham and George Joff, University of Cambridge
Contemporary events in the Islamic world dominate the headlines and emphasise the crises of the Middle East and North Africa, yet the Islamic World is far larger and more varied than we realise. Current affairs there too mask the underlying trends and values that have, over time, created a fascinating and complex world. This series is intended to reveal that other Islamic reality by looking at its history and society over the ages, as well as at the contemporary scene. It will also reach far further afield, bringing in Central Asia and the Far East as part of a cultural space sharing common values and beliefs but manifesting a vast diversity of experience and social order.
The Creation of Saudi Arabia
Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 19141927
Askar H. Al-Enazy
Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa
Politics and Process
Edited by George Joff
Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco
Edited by Driss Maghraoui
Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean
Communicating Power in Transition after 2011
Edited by Roxane Farmanfarmaian
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/middleeaststudies/series/SE0791
Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean
Communicating Power in Transition after 2011
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Contents
ROXANE FARMANFARMAIAN
PART I
Structural status of media in governance and law
ROXANE FARMANFARMAIAN, ALI SONAY AND MURAT AKSER
GEORGE JOFF
BOUZIANE ZAID
PART II
Structures of media and surveillance
ALEXIS ARTAUD DE LA FERRIRE AND NARSEO VALLINA-RODRIGUEZ
ERKAN SAKA
SAMIA ERRAZZOUKI
PART III
The function of media values in the politics of sector transition
ASLI TUN
ROXANE FARMANFARMAIAN
ABDELFETTAH BENCHENNA, DRISS KSIKES AND DOMINIQUE MARCHETTI
ALI SONAY
PART IV
Women on the small screen
ZOE PETKANAS
KENZA OUMLIL
YEIM BURUL AND HANDE ESLEN-ZIYA
PART V
Contestation and positionality between power and public
MICHELANGELO GUIDA
SAMAR SAMIR MEZGHANNI
ALI SONAY
PART VI
Media status and the implications of covering terror
AYSE SEDA YUKSEL
KAYLA BRANSON
Murat Akser is a Course Director and Lecturer at the School of Arts and Humanities, Ulster University. His research is on freedom of expression, alternative journalism, citizen media, social movement media, and hacktivism. His work has been published in Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture, New Media & Society, European Journal of Communication, NECSUS, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Journal of Film & Video, and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. His most recent book, co-edited with Victoria McCollum, Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey: Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance was published in 2018 (Rowman & Littlefield). He holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from York University.
Alexis Artaud de La Ferrire is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and an Associate Researcher at the Groupe Socits Religions Lacits at the CNRS in Paris. He has previously held positions at SOAS, University of London, and at the Cambridge University Centre for the Study of International Relations in the Middle East and North Africa (CIRMENA). He was the Tunisia Field Research Associate for the University of Cambridge Al Jazeera Media in Political Transition project.