Globalization and New Media in the Arab World, Collective, Frank Mermier

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Emblematic of the globalization process, the development of new information and communication technologies has disrupted the configuration of the media landscape in the Arab world. This phenomenon exemplifies an unprecedented articulation of national, transnational, and global spaces in an Arab region torn between multiple frames of identity reference, blending different versions of Pan-Arabism and Pan-Islamism with various community and nationalist allegiances.
Differentiated established policies of closure and openness of national territories in response to increased information flows are met by social practices aimed at circumventing censorship constraints and building new modes of communication and sociability that contribute to redefining the scales of globality. After the proliferation of satellite dishes, which bristled on rooftops in the mid-1980s, today it is the multiplication of Internet cafés that constitutes the main spatial marker of the recomposition of reception horizons. From satellite televisions to the Internet, including advertising communication and new modes of written dissemination, the studies presented in this work explore the economic and political strategies, legal regulations, professional knowledge, and media forms and content generated by these new communication spaces. This work, the result of a collaborative research project bringing together Arab and European researchers, is the first book in French on recent developments in the Arab media scene.