The Media in Arab Countries: From Development Theories to Cooperation Policies (Science, Society and New Technologies Series)

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Extent, Decadence and Surge of Development Aid through the Media -- The villager, the government, the Arab street and the young blogger -- Outline of this book -- List of Acronyms -- 1. International Communication and Arab Countries: Studies on Media Development and Media Geopolitics -- 1.1. Communication for development in France: an imported subdiscipline? -- 1.2. Development and geopolitics: two distinct matters? -- 1.3. In the beginning: (Arab) media and development -- 1.4. Academic publications on Arab media: from scarcity to profusion -- 1.5. Arab media: from official speeches to the domination of the Anglo-American pragmatic school -- 1.6. The 2000s: renewal of research or "Al Jazeerazation" of the academic literature? -- 1.7. The uninhibited liberalization of the media -- 1.8. An interest in Arab public opinion, a rarity of work on audiences -- 1.9. Has the media and development relationship been abandoned to think-tanks in the Internet age? -- 1.10. The renewal of a field of study or journalism for the development of investigative journalism -- 2. The Obsolescence of Classical Theories of International Communication -- 2.1. Modernization by the media or "westoxification"? -- 2.2. Development is not an exportable product -- 2.3. The dependency theory -- 2.4. Impetus for a NWICO -- 2.5. The "too sage" report of the Sages -- 3. The Information Society or the Liberal Remodeling of Development Theories -- 3.1. A global trend: the paradigm of a more "inclusive" information society -- 3.2. Progress: an accounting measure? -- 3.3. Arab countries in the "information society" -- 3.4. Young graduates -- and connected in a precarious economic context -- 3.5. The use of digital media and social networks.

In early research work on international communication, the countries of North Africa and the Middle East were seen as part of the "Third World", and the media had to be at the service of development. However, this situation is changing due to the transnationalization and liberalization of the media. Indeed, since the 1990s, the entry of the South – and Arab countries in this case – into the "information society" has become the dominant creed, although the vision is still globalizing and marked by stereotypes. Representations of these societies are closely associated with international relations and geopolitics, characterized by tensions and conflicts. However, a force has come to disrupt the traditional rules of the game: Arab audiences. Digital media, the dissemination of which has been enabled by the implementation of the "information society", empowers them to participate fully in a media confluence. This liberation from the discourse has two major consequences: the media and journalism sector has become more strategic than ever, and action toward development must be reinvented.

Tourya Guaaybess. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.