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Author Hadj-Moussa, Ratiba, 1956- author

Title The public sphere and satellite television in North Africa : gender, identity, critique / by Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
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 LanguagesTelevision, Women, and the Public Sphere; Conclusion; 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; Conclusion; 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 ReasoningIntercrossing Perspectives on Satellite Television; All the Possibilities ... ; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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 politi
Notes "Translation from the French of La télévision par satellite au Maghreb et ses publics: espaces de résistance, espaces critiques (Grenoble: PUB, 2015)--Back of title page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index
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Subject Direct broadcast satellite television -- Africa, North
Identity (Psychology) and mass media -- Africa, North
Cultural studies.
Sociology & anthropology.
Communication studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
Identity (Psychology) and mass media
Direct broadcast satellite television
North Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Container of (expression) Hadj-Moussa, Ratiba, 1956- Télévision par satellite au Maghreb et ses publics. English
ISBN 9781527519947
1527519945
Other Titles Télévision par satellite au Maghreb et ses publics. English