Arab TV-Audiences Negotiating Religion and Identity

• Other Authors: Galal, Ehab (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2015
• Subjects: Public speaking guides; Literary studies: general; Communication studies; History of religion; Islamic life & practice; Cultural studies; Teaching of a specific subject; Language teaching and learning; Religion and beliefs; Islam; Anthropology; Sociology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media or in one of the approximately 135 religious satellite channels that broadcast guidance and entertainment with an Islamic frame of reference. How do Arab audiences make use of mediated religion in negotiations of identity and belonging? The empirical based case studies in this interdisciplinary volume explore audience-media relations with a focus on religious identity in different countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, and the United States.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (150 p.)

ISBN

978-3-653-04835-3

Access

Open Access