Media and the Experience of Social Change : The Arab World.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Chapter One Introduction -- Phenomenology and Politics -- Principal Aims and Claims -- Chapter Two Professional Media amid Change and Hysteresis -- Journalism's Perennial Crisis -- Journalism's Multiple Futures -- Temporal Phenomenologies: How Journalists Experience Change -- Journalism in a Changing World -- Journalism in the Arab World -- Chapter Three Empirical Perspectives: Arab Journalists Debate the Upheavals -- Arab journalists Tweet the Uprisings -- Analysing Florid Language -- Deliberation and Wrestling -- Breaking News -- Chapter Four Change and Hysteresis in Cairo -- Chapter Five Flux and Atrophy in Beirut -- Chapter Six Anti-Politics, Populism and Social Media -- Anti-politics and Populism -- The View from Political Science -- TheoriZing Media Cynicism -- Populism and the Politics of Popular Culture -- A Question of Trust -- Being in the World With, and Through, Media -- Chapter Seven The Politics of Change: Media, Protest and Conflict -- Mediated Engagement with Protest -- Protest in the Media -- The Phenomenology of Mediated Protest -- Audiences of Protest and Conflict -- Experiencing Distant Worlds With, and Through, Media -- Chapter Eight Facebook Revolutions?: Understanding the Work That Social Media Do -- Mass Self-communication -- Imagination, Creativity and Performance -- The Myth of Generative Structurelessness -- The Complicity of Academic Discourse -- Chapter Nine Living in Interesting Times: The Work of Experience, Engagement and Identity -- Media Witnessing and Subjective Recognition -- Provisional Selves: Implications for Audience Engagement with Distant Others -- Harnessing Change: The Possibilities of Dissensus -- References -- Index.

Drawing on both philosophy and an investigation of what people actually do with media, this book takes aim at the conventional wisdom and opens up new ways of thinking about media and the way we experience change.

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