Framing new communicative technologies in the Arab world

Bibliographic Data

ID12913458
AuthorsAnissa Daoudi (Durham University, corresponding author), Emma Murphy (0000-0003-4886-5428, Durham University)
Year2011
Volume4
Issue1
Pages3-22
Publication date2011-06-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Arab & Muslim Media Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-9411 • E-ISSN: 1751-942X
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/jammr.4.1.3_1
OpenAlexW2029012081
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This article explores how the academic discourses that have arisen out of research into the political and sociocultural impacts of contemporary information and communications technologies in the Arab world both mirror and diverge from similar discourses arising out of language and linguistics research. The authors suggest that there are five central understandings of this impact: discourses of development, emancipation, subordination, adaptation and resistance. Whilst political research focuses mostly on the first three, cultural and linguistic research emphasizes the latter two. The authors argue that the evidence presented here supports a case for a concerted inter-disciplinary approach to the study of ICTs in the region, on the grounds that it offers the best chance to capture the multiple textures and layers of the regional experience

Discipline · Emancipation · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Geography · ICTS · Information and Communications Technology · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Anthropology · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Social Media and Politics