Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition after 2011

This edited volume presents empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey, and Morocco, offering a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the Middle East. It focuses on the media's structure, function, and agency in communicating between power and the public, producing a comparative assessment of the media's role across the southern Mediterranean region.

Format: Hardback
Length: 426 pages
Publication date: 21 October 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited volume presents groundbreaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey, and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the regions upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and hybrid-authoritarian systems of the Middle East. In this book, media scholars focus on three themes: the media's structure as an expression of governance, the media's function as a reflection of the market, and the media's agency in communicating between power and the public. The result is a unique addition to the literature on two counts. Firstly, analysis of similar players, issues, and processes in each country produces a thematically consistent comparative assessment of the media's role across the southern Mediterranean region. The first cross-country comparison of specific media practices in the Middle East, it covers issues such as women in talk shows, media's relationship with surveillance, and comparative practices of media regulation. Secondly, actualizing the idea that media reflects the society that produces it, the studies here draw on field data to lay the foundations for a new theory of media, Values and Status Negotiation (VSN), which evolved from the regions unique characteristics and practices, and offers an alternative to prevailing Western-centric approaches to media analysis.

Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean will appeal to students and scholars of politics, sociology, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.

Weight: 798g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138494886