Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts
An Ethnographic Perspective
Authors: Sabry, Tarik, Mansour, Nisrine
Free Preview- Provides the first study in the English language dedicated to understanding Arabic-speaking child audiences in the Arab region and Europe
- Investigates children’s uses of digital media technology through the context of everyday life
- Works with findings from a three-year AHRC research project
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- About this book
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Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children’s uses of digital media in three sites—London, Casablanca and Beirut—and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content. The study moves away from a conventional definition of media towards a pluralistic interpretation, and provides key ethnographic findings that reveal how the notion of home is extended across everyday spaces that children occupy. Exploring the relationship between children and media outside of the subject-object hierarchy, it re-connects them in a horizontal mapping of affectivity and intimacy. This book will appeal to scholars specializing in children and the media, digital media, media and cultural studies, media anthropology, philosophy and Middle Eastern studies.
- About the authors
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Tarik Sabry is a reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster, UK. He is author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (2010) and co-founder of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
Nisrine Mansour is a researcher in media, culture and migration, with previous affiliations at the University of Westminster, the University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics, UK.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Arab Children and the Media—Epistemological Topographies of a Nascent Field
Pages 1-31
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The Poetics of Self-Reflexivity: Arab Diasporic Children in London and Media Uses
Pages 33-50
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Ethnography as Double-Thrownness: War and the Face of the Sufferer as Media
Pages 51-64
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Networked World-Making: Children’s Encounters with Media Objects
Pages 65-98
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Children, Media as ‘Equipment’ and Worldliness
Pages 99-120
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts
- Book Subtitle
- An Ethnographic Perspective
- Authors
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- Tarik Sabry
- Nisrine Mansour
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-04321-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-04321-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-04320-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 147
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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