Annabelle Sreberny
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annabelle Sreberny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annabelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Sreberny |
| SIGNATURE | SREBERNY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2460-1161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
My Room With a World View: Aging and the Paradoxes of Covid 19
The challenge of autoethnography is using my personal experience to explore broader social and political themes and to find a subjective voice to make sense of the impact of the Covid 19 lockdown. Using the optic of aging, I explore how I accommodated to quarantine life. Sitting and letting the world swirl around me in my house, I explore the altered physical and mental spaces in which I lived. Despite my own privileges, I have felt vulnerable an…
Integration, class and secularism: The marginalization of Shia identities in the UK Iranian diaspora
Media Imperialism
Women's Digital Activism in a Changing Middle East
An amusing and indicative sign of changing times, in December 2014 Saudi cleric Ahmad ʿAziz al-Ghamdi, a religious scholar and former head of the religious police in Mecca (officially known as the Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice), ignited a fierce national debate regarding the niqab when he replied positively to a tweet by a Saudi woman asking if it was permissible in Islam for her to post a picture of her face on social …
Persian Service: The BBC and British Interests in Iran
Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the BBC has had a hand in every political upheaval in the country. In this vein the BBC has become a notable element in the complex and tortured narrative of Anglo-Iranian relations. The BBC Persian Service was initially developed in 1940 to prepare and broadcast British war-time propaganda. And it has since been seen by many in Iran as an integral part of British policy-making in…
Beyond Metropolitanism and Nativism: Re-grounding Media Theory
Cultural revolution in Iran: Contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic
The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have a profound consequence on Iranian life. This book draws on the expertise of Iranian and international academics to address diverse areas of social and cultural innovation that are driving change and progress
Transcultural journalism: Translations, transmissions and transformations
Transcultural journalism and the politics of translation: Interrogating the BBC World Service
When George Orwell worked for the BBC Eastern Services during the Second World War, he regarded it as ‘an organ of colonial discourse propagating the word and world view of the metropolitan centre to its peripheral subject people’ (Kerr, 2002: 473–90). Orwell’s misgivings about his own journalistic practice and the BBC Eastern Service’s suspected ideological functions may pose an enduring dilemma for some journalists, but many are delighted to en…
Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran
The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, but most literature on the subject has st…
The BBC Persian Service and the Islamic Revolution of 1979
This paper is the second part of a work in progress that examines the impact of seventy years of BBC Persian broadcasts to Iran. The Persian Service, established in December 1940, was originally set up by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as one of thirty-eight language services broadcasting to strategically important areas of the world during World War Two. The first piece of research looked at three historic moments when the influence o…
Broadcasting to Afghanistan: A history of the BBC Pashto Service
This paper traces the history of BBC World Service (BBCWS) broadcasts to Afghanistan and the political struggles that led to the establishment of a Pashto language service to complement BBC broadcasting in Persian. The complex linguistic, ethnic, and tribal diversity of Afghanistan makes providing appropriate and relevant news, and an information service in the right language, accent, and idiom for Afghanistan, a daunting task. The paper analyzes…
Epilogue The BBC World Service and the Middle East - Past, Present, and Future Dilemmas
The article offers information on the company BBC World Service (BBCWS) and its development and struggle in the Middle East. It also explains the relationship between BBCWS and British Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO). Public diplomacy is stated to have altered the perceived and potential role of the BBC in the region
“Not Only, But Also”: Mixedness and Media’
Globalization Theories
An interconnected set of terms – globalization, global, globality – dominated analytic discourse toward the end of the twentieth century. The considerable disagreements among theorists are set out below. Then the specific issue of cultural globalization and its debates are addressed
The Analytic Challenges of Studying the Middle East and its Evolving Media Environment
The bbc persian service 1941-1979
The BBC World Service (BBCWS) functions with a deep and intriguing tension at the heart of its activities. Funded directly by the FCO, the BBCWS is subject to the changing priorities and concerns o
Becoming Intellectual: The Blogestan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic
This chapter seeks to interrogate the possibility that the blogosphere is a significant space for a range of intellectual voices inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. The paper critiques naïve arguments that the blogosphere is totally oppositional by examining some of the religious discourses of ‘embedded intellectuals’. But it also critiques the idea that Iranian intellectual life must be examined solely through the prism of Islam. We explore how…
The Politics of/in Blogging in Iran
c a a n d t h e M i d d l e E a s t V o l . 2 7 , N o . 3 , 2 0 0 7 d o i 1 0 .1 2 1 5 / 1 0 8 9 2 0 1 x -2 0 0 7 -0
Mediated Politics in the Middle East: Introduction
‘Not Only, But Also’: Mixedness and Media
Multicultural media policies and practices developed to foster excluded voices may actually work to fix monological minority sub-cultures without developing channels and genres that cross over ethnic divisions and foster dialogic understanding. Conceptually, the study of diasporic media runs the danger of assuming a cultural fixity belied by the social practices of diasporic ethnic groups. Evidence taken from recent research suggests that minorit…
Contradictions of the globalizing moment
London, August 2004: sufficient for context. The logics of the analysis of globalization seem now to privilege space over time, geography over history. Yet history is not ending but running fast, with dramatic changes in focus and debate, so that one’s standpoint needs to be addressed not only in terms of categories of social life and political orientation but also of the time and place from/in which one writes. Far from obliterating the traces o…
Gender, empowerment, and communication: Looking Backwards and Forwards
This paper explores the interrelations of globalisation, communication, and democratisation, particularly in relation to gender equality and empowerment. It provides a historical analysis of the development of global women's networks, especially in the substantive areas of media and communications technologies, and the politics of their process and their achievements. It examines the convergences in media and communications technologies, and henc…
The Women’s Press in Contemporary Iran: Engendering the Public Sphere
Wsis: Articulating Information at the Summit
This brief article examines WSIS as a staging of transnational political communication. Playing with the acronym, it explores a number of moments of articulation and contradiction within the WSIS process, including gender imbalance, the politics of the inside and the outside, the space between rhetoric and action, and the lack of media coverage of a media-focused event. It suggests that WSIS is as relevant for western publics as for southern publ…
Transcultural journalism and the politics of translation: Interrogating the BBC World Service
When George Orwell worked for the BBC Eastern Services during the Second World War, he regarded it as ‘an organ of colonial discourse propagating the word and world view of the metropolitan centre to its peripheral subject people’ (Kerr, 2002: 473–90). Orwell’s misgivings about his own journalistic practice and the BBC Eastern Service’s suspected ideological functions may pose an enduring dilemma for some journalists, but many are delighted to en…
Women's Digital Activism in a Changing Middle East
An amusing and indicative sign of changing times, in December 2014 Saudi cleric Ahmad ʿAziz al-Ghamdi, a religious scholar and former head of the religious police in Mecca (officially known as the Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice), ignited a fierce national debate regarding the niqab when he replied positively to a tweet by a Saudi woman asking if it was permissible in Islam for her to post a picture of her face on social …
Gender, Globalization and Communications: Women and the Transnational
Transcultural journalism: Translations, transmissions and transformations
The Analytic Challenges of Studying the Middle East and its Evolving Media Environment
Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Diffusion, Democracy, Difficulties
This overview attempts to place the region in wider historical and cultural contexts. The recent and rapid developments in media are discussed, while particular attention is paid to the dynamics of democratization, gender participation and Internet access in the Middle East
The Politics of/in Blogging in Iran
c a a n d t h e M i d d l e E a s t V o l . 2 7 , N o . 3 , 2 0 0 7 d o i 1 0 .1 2 1 5 / 1 0 8 9 2 0 1 x -2 0 0 7 -0
Integration, class and secularism: The marginalization of Shia identities in the UK Iranian diaspora
Wsis: Articulating Information at the Summit
This brief article examines WSIS as a staging of transnational political communication. Playing with the acronym, it explores a number of moments of articulation and contradiction within the WSIS process, including gender imbalance, the politics of the inside and the outside, the space between rhetoric and action, and the lack of media coverage of a media-focused event. It suggests that WSIS is as relevant for western publics as for southern publ…
The BBC Persian Service and the Islamic Revolution of 1979
This paper is the second part of a work in progress that examines the impact of seventy years of BBC Persian broadcasts to Iran. The Persian Service, established in December 1940, was originally set up by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as one of thirty-eight language services broadcasting to strategically important areas of the world during World War Two. The first piece of research looked at three historic moments when the influence o…
Epilogue The BBC World Service and the Middle East - Past, Present, and Future Dilemmas
The article offers information on the company BBC World Service (BBCWS) and its development and struggle in the Middle East. It also explains the relationship between BBCWS and British Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO). Public diplomacy is stated to have altered the perceived and potential role of the BBC in the region
The bbc persian service 1941-1979
The BBC World Service (BBCWS) functions with a deep and intriguing tension at the heart of its activities. Funded directly by the FCO, the BBCWS is subject to the changing priorities and concerns o
Becoming Intellectual: The Blogestan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic
This chapter seeks to interrogate the possibility that the blogosphere is a significant space for a range of intellectual voices inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. The paper critiques naïve arguments that the blogosphere is totally oppositional by examining some of the religious discourses of ‘embedded intellectuals’. But it also critiques the idea that Iranian intellectual life must be examined solely through the prism of Islam. We explore how…
Mediated Politics in the Middle East: Introduction
Small Media Big Revolution: Communication, Culture and the Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Press and the Continuing Struggle Over Civil Society 1998-2000
This article maps the manner in which the press has become a key site in the ongoing struggle between conservatives and reformers inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. A more moderate president has encouraged renewed debate about civil society, often evident in new titles and newspaper content, while the forces of conservatism continue to fear and censor such debate. A new struggle around an old medium is very live in Iran.
Gender, Globalization and Communications: Women and the Transnational
Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Diffusion, Democracy, Difficulties
This overview attempts to place the region in wider historical and cultural contexts. The recent and rapid developments in media are discussed, while particular attention is paid to the dynamics of democratization, gender participation and Internet access in the Middle East
Media, Muslims, and the Middle East: A Critical Review Essay
The Women’s Press in Contemporary Iran: Engendering the Public Sphere
Wsis: Articulating Information at the Summit
This brief article examines WSIS as a staging of transnational political communication. Playing with the acronym, it explores a number of moments of articulation and contradiction within the WSIS process, including gender imbalance, the politics of the inside and the outside, the space between rhetoric and action, and the lack of media coverage of a media-focused event. It suggests that WSIS is as relevant for western publics as for southern publ…
‘Not Only, But Also’: Mixedness and Media
Multicultural media policies and practices developed to foster excluded voices may actually work to fix monological minority sub-cultures without developing channels and genres that cross over ethnic divisions and foster dialogic understanding. Conceptually, the study of diasporic media runs the danger of assuming a cultural fixity belied by the social practices of diasporic ethnic groups. Evidence taken from recent research suggests that minorit…
Contradictions of the globalizing moment
London, August 2004: sufficient for context. The logics of the analysis of globalization seem now to privilege space over time, geography over history. Yet history is not ending but running fast, with dramatic changes in focus and debate, so that one’s standpoint needs to be addressed not only in terms of categories of social life and political orientation but also of the time and place from/in which one writes. Far from obliterating the traces o…
Gender, empowerment, and communication: Looking Backwards and Forwards
This paper explores the interrelations of globalisation, communication, and democratisation, particularly in relation to gender equality and empowerment. It provides a historical analysis of the development of global women's networks, especially in the substantive areas of media and communications technologies, and the politics of their process and their achievements. It examines the convergences in media and communications technologies, and henc…
Becoming Intellectual: The Blogestan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic
This chapter seeks to interrogate the possibility that the blogosphere is a significant space for a range of intellectual voices inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. The paper critiques naïve arguments that the blogosphere is totally oppositional by examining some of the religious discourses of ‘embedded intellectuals’. But it also critiques the idea that Iranian intellectual life must be examined solely through the prism of Islam. We explore how…
The Politics of/in Blogging in Iran
c a a n d t h e M i d d l e E a s t V o l . 2 7 , N o . 3 , 2 0 0 7 d o i 1 0 .1 2 1 5 / 1 0 8 9 2 0 1 x -2 0 0 7 -0
Mediated Politics in the Middle East: Introduction
Globalization Theories
An interconnected set of terms – globalization, global, globality – dominated analytic discourse toward the end of the twentieth century. The considerable disagreements among theorists are set out below. Then the specific issue of cultural globalization and its debates are addressed
The Analytic Challenges of Studying the Middle East and its Evolving Media Environment
The bbc persian service 1941-1979
The BBC World Service (BBCWS) functions with a deep and intriguing tension at the heart of its activities. Funded directly by the FCO, the BBCWS is subject to the changing priorities and concerns o
“Not Only, But Also”: Mixedness and Media’
Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran
The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, but most literature on the subject has st…
The BBC Persian Service and the Islamic Revolution of 1979
This paper is the second part of a work in progress that examines the impact of seventy years of BBC Persian broadcasts to Iran. The Persian Service, established in December 1940, was originally set up by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as one of thirty-eight language services broadcasting to strategically important areas of the world during World War Two. The first piece of research looked at three historic moments when the influence o…
Broadcasting to Afghanistan: A history of the BBC Pashto Service
This paper traces the history of BBC World Service (BBCWS) broadcasts to Afghanistan and the political struggles that led to the establishment of a Pashto language service to complement BBC broadcasting in Persian. The complex linguistic, ethnic, and tribal diversity of Afghanistan makes providing appropriate and relevant news, and an information service in the right language, accent, and idiom for Afghanistan, a daunting task. The paper analyzes…
Epilogue The BBC World Service and the Middle East - Past, Present, and Future Dilemmas
The article offers information on the company BBC World Service (BBCWS) and its development and struggle in the Middle East. It also explains the relationship between BBCWS and British Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO). Public diplomacy is stated to have altered the perceived and potential role of the BBC in the region
Transcultural journalism: Translations, transmissions and transformations
Transcultural journalism and the politics of translation: Interrogating the BBC World Service
When George Orwell worked for the BBC Eastern Services during the Second World War, he regarded it as ‘an organ of colonial discourse propagating the word and world view of the metropolitan centre to its peripheral subject people’ (Kerr, 2002: 473–90). Orwell’s misgivings about his own journalistic practice and the BBC Eastern Service’s suspected ideological functions may pose an enduring dilemma for some journalists, but many are delighted to en…
Cultural revolution in Iran: Contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic
The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have a profound consequence on Iranian life. This book draws on the expertise of Iranian and international academics to address diverse areas of social and cultural innovation that are driving change and progress
Persian Service: The BBC and British Interests in Iran
Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the BBC has had a hand in every political upheaval in the country. In this vein the BBC has become a notable element in the complex and tortured narrative of Anglo-Iranian relations. The BBC Persian Service was initially developed in 1940 to prepare and broadcast British war-time propaganda. And it has since been seen by many in Iran as an integral part of British policy-making in…
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