Transforming International Communication: Media, Culture and Society in the Middle East brings together 15 chapters that analyse a wide variety of issues and cases concerning the interrelations between media and social change and their capacity for shaping the current social and political discourses in the Arab world. The book provides an understanding of how contemporary media can shape practices of organizing, decision making and mobilization in the Arab world. Topics ranging from the Arab Spring, political discourse, social activism, women’s rights to terrorism and countries from Israel to Oman are examined in terms of how new media are reshaping lives and politics in the Middle East. The multidisciplinary approach to new media and society presented in this book will open new avenues and discussion on the role of the new media in social transformation and empowerment. This book is a valuable resource for those readers who are interested in international communication, new media, communication studies, development studies, women’s empowerment, e-governance and the political economy of communication.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kiran Prasad
Kiran Prasad is Associate professor in communication studies, College of Applied Science at salalah, Ministry of Higher Education, Oman and professor in Communication and Journalism at Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India. She was Commonwealth Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Communication Research, University of Leeds, UK and Canadian Studies Research Fellow at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is also the youngest ever recipient of the ‘ State Best Teacher Award’ for university teacher from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. Aprolific writer and well known communication philosopher, She is author/editor of over seventeen books and conceptualized many theories in communication studies. Her recent books include Communcation for Development: Reinventing theory and Action(2009, in Vols.); Information and Communication technology: Recasting Development (2004); Women, Globalization and Mass Media: International Facets of Emancipation (2006); and HIV and AIDS: Vulnerrability of Women in Asia and Africa (2008). She has to her credit over 100 paper in journals of national and international repute and has researched extensively in India and abroad on the interrelations between communication and development studies.
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