TY - BOOK AU - Sakr,Naomi TI - Arab media and political renewal: community, legitimacy and public life SN - 9781845113278 (pbk.): AV - P95.82.M628 A73 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - London, New York, NY : PB - I. B. Tauris KW - Mass media KW - Arabian Peninsula KW - Press and politics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p.195-203) and index; Approaches to exploring media-politics connections in the Arab world/ Naomi Sakr -- Cultures of TV news journalism and prospects for a transcultural public sphere/ Oliver Hahn -- Television and public action in the Beirut spring/ Lina Khatib -- Idioms of contention: star academy in Lebanon and Kuwait. Marwan M. Kraidy -- Arab internet use: popular trends and public impact/ Albrecht Hofheinz -- Satelite television: a breathing space for Arab youth?/ Iman Karam -- Democracy and the media in Palestine: a comparison of election coverage by local and Pan-Arab media/ Giovanna Maiola and David Ward -- Palestinians, news and diasporic condition/ Dina Matar -- Crafting the Arab media for peace-building: donors, dialogue and disasters/ Bruce Stanley -- In search of the Arab present cultural tense/ Tarik Sabry ER -