The Internet and New Media in the Middle East - AISE00019

• Title: The Internet and New Media in the Middle East
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship (21-UISK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2015
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 8
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (10)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: ANM50564
• Note: can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Vít Šisler, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 08.9 Others-Humanities; Exchange - 14.2 Sociology; Exchange - 15.9 Others-Commun. & Inform. Sciences

Annotation

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TUE 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM, room No. 2067 (Jinonice)

The course starts 24 FEB 2015.

The course deals with the broader social, political, and cultural aspects of the growing influence of the internet and information and communication technology (ICT) in the Middle East. It focuses on the potential of the internet for democratization processes; preserving/challenging cultural norms and religious values; and engaging in dialogue and media diplomacy.

Literature

Last update: SISLV1AF (15.02.2015)

ABDULLA, Rasha A. 2007. TheInternet in the Arab world: Egypt and beyond. 1st Ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2007, 175 p. ISBN 0820486736.

 

BUNT, Gary R. 2003. Islam in the digital age : e-jihad, online fatwas, and cyber Islamic environments. London : Pluto Press, 2003. 237 p. ISBN 0745320996.

 

BUNT, Gary R. 2009. iMuslims : Rewiring the House of Islam. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 416 p. ISBN 0807859664.

 

EICKELMAN, D., ANDERSON, J. W. (eds.) New media in the Muslim world: the emerging public sphere. 2nd ed. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2003, p. 106-133. ISBN 0253216052.

 

EL-NAWAWY, Mohammed - ISKANDER, Adel. 2002. Al-Jazeera: How the free Arab news network scooped the world and changed the Middle East. Boulder: Westview Press, 2002. 240 s., ISBN 0813340179.

 

EL-NAWAWY, Mohammed - KHAMIS, Sahar. 2009. Islam dot com : contemporary Islamic discourses in cyberspace. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 269 p. ISBN 0230600352.

 

HOWARD, Phillip N. 2010. The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy : Information Technology and Political Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 304 p. ISBN 0199736421.

 

KALATHIL, Shanthi - BOAS, Taylor C. 2003. Open networks, closed regimes : the impact of the Internet on authoritarian rule. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003. 217 p. ISBN 0870031945.

 

KRAIDY, Marwan M. - KHALIL, Joe F. 2009. Arab television industries. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 193 p. ISBN 9781844573028.

 

SREBERNY, Annabelle - KHIABANY, Gholam. 2010. Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran. New York : I. B. Tauris, 2010. 211 p. ISBN 9781845116064.

 

Requirements to the exam

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Paper 7000-8000 words, AAA style guide

Syllabus

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1. Introduction

2. Satellite TV in the Arab world

3. Development of ICT in the Middle East

4. Internet and democratization

5. Censorship

6. Islam in the digital age

7. Muslim minorities and the internet

8. Cyber jihad

9. Video games and politics

10. New media in Iran

11. Student mini-conference