Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace - Couverture rigide

El-Nawawy, M.; Khamis, Sahar M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0230600352 ISBN 13 : 9780230600355

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

Book by elNawawy Mohammed Khamis Sahar

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Islam dot com provides an account of the virtual Muslim public sphere characterized by unprecedented conceptual and empirical richness. By transcending a narrow focus on the Internet as a space of radical foment and by drawing on a unique combination of English and Arabic source sites, Nawawy and Khamis show that contestation and deliberation over religious authority and Muslim identity constitute the heart of Islam online. Compelling and vital reading." --Peter Mandaville, PhD, Associate Professor of Government & Politics, Co-Director, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University "Islamic websites have become a primary vehicle for thinking about Islam in public, and "Islam dot com "tackles the central issue of how they shape mainstream Muslim thought. Nawawy and Khamis's approach persuasively suggests how to think about "electronic" Islam for years to come." --Dale F. Eickelman, co-editor of "New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere" (2002)

"As the use of the internet rapidly spreads in Arab and Muslim countries, the expanding Islamic discourse and changing notions of Islamic identity are increasingly important issues that have not been sufficiently captured. Professors el-Nawawy and Khamis provide an important window into this discourse as it appears on three of the most popular Islamic web sites. Both the rich description and the thoughtful analysis help fill a large gap in this emerging literature." --Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, Senior Fellow. The Brookings Institution

"Those interested in international communication, and specifically communication in the Arab world, have been blessedwith a wealth of new information via academic journal articles and books in the past few years. Mohammed el-Nawawy (co-author of a well known book about Al Jazeera) and Sahar Khamis are offering new insight about Arab- and Islamic-world communication in this book by examining discourse on Islamic-oriented web sites. Several studies have examined mass media discourse in the Middle East, but this is the first study I know of that ambitiously examines discourse via new media. Indeed, the authors, both U.S.-based academics with Arab-world roots, are especially well qualified to undertake this research.This examination of what is being discussed in cyberspace among those following Islam reveals a fascinating view of how new media are being used in the Arab/Islamic world." --Douglas A. Boyd, University of Kentucky

Biographie de l'auteur :

MOHAMMED EL-NAWAWY is Assistant Professor and Knight-Crane Endowed Chair in the Department of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte, USA. SAHAR KHAMIS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. She is the former Head of the Mass Communication and Information Science Department in Qatar University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230600352
• ISBN 13: 9780230600355
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 273