The public sphere and satellite television in North Africa : gender, identity, critique / by Ratiba Hadj-Moussa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadj-Moussa, Ratiba, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology) and mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

The advent of satellite television and its adoption in the Maghreb brought about a profound social change. This book, which explores the relationships between the media and the public sphere, shows that the simple and quotidian act of watching satellite television as opposed to national television mobilizes novel ways of expressing identities along with a range of critical positions targeting political regimes. By bringing certain topics hitherto hardly present to the center of homes, the media reveals the pivotal functions of gender relations, which are today at the heart of social and political matters in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.Based on extensive fieldwork, this book offers a unique interpretation of the use of satellite television in authoritarian contexts and contributes to a better understanding of the media and the political public sphere. The book will interest teachers and students in communication, political studies, gender studies, sociology and anthropology of the Arab worlds and the Mediterranean.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Framing

Diffusion and Appropriation

Law and "Raison d'État"

Revenge of the "Parabolés"

The Grace of the Parabolas

The Power of Small Things

Methodology: Sociology and Ethnography

Organization of the Book

Chapter Two

Banality and the Public Sphere

From the Megalopolitan Poor to Television Publics

Television Publics

On the Public

Conclusion

Chapter Three

The Question of Public and Private

Thinking Public-Private Linkages

The Houma

Television and the Houma

The Home, the Family, and the World

Gender Relations and the Truths of Languages

Television, Women, and the Public Sphere

Chapter Four

National Belonging, Democratic Identification

Political Identities

"Customs and Traditions": The Heart of Culture?

Arabness

Variations...

Islamicities Across Time: Openings and Closures

The Month of Months: Ramadan, Nostalgia, and Globalized Islam

Identity: Past and Present

Chapter Five

Other Critique

On Distance

Passing Through Modernity: Generations of Critique

Confidence and Credibility

The "Flash" and Good Analysis

Visibility and Transparency

Comparison: Judging and Reasoning

Intercrossing Perspectives on Satellite Television

All the Possibilities...

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781527519947

1527519945

OCLC:

1059451009