Internationalizing media theory

Downing, John

doi:10.1080/10402659608425938

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“…Since Downing (1996) raised the alarm about how our knowledge of our field is essentially based on experience and examples from the West, mainly from the USA, Gholam Khiabany holds a PhD in communication from University of Westminster (London). He is a senior lecturer in Mass Communications and course leader of BSC Media Studies programme, Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University.…”

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Is there an Islamic communication? The persistence of ‘tradition’ and the lure of modernity

Khiabany

2007

Critical Arts

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Since 'culture' has become an essential category in trying to explain the post-1989 world, a new wave of essentialist thinking has emerged in the social sciences, including media studies. One such reaction is the so-called Islamic theory of communication based on a narrow and essentialist conceptualisation of 'authentic' culture. While trying to take issue with Eurocentrism, such an approach still operates within an Orientalist worldview. This article explores the central thesis, the limits and implications of Islamic Exceptionalism as related to media culture in the region, and Iran in particular. It suggests that claims of difference and of a singular 'Islamic' perspective on communication suppress the internal differences within such perceivedly singular 'cultures', and more significantly they overlook the real and more pressing 'differences' which need our urgent attention. In this article I argue that the claim of regional or religious 'exceptionalism' is only one part of a global cultural system that itself calls for the essentializing of local truths, and that tries to show how universal theories of culture and society do not fit these singular spaces/cultures. This recent 'cultural turn', and the emergence of alternative cultural claims to modernity, should be precisely seen as an attempt to reconstruct modernity according to 'particular' regional models, despite the avowed rejection of 'modernity'.

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Is there an Islamic communication? The persistence of ‘tradition’ and the lure of modernity

Khiabany

2007

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“…Media of all types can enable the struggle emerging between democratic movements and the authoritarian regimes in the process of democratisation (Downing, 1996). Despite the fact that mass media are considered as active participants of political communication (McNair, 1998), which is important for democratization, it has not been clearly resolved so far whether the media cause social and political changes or just follow these processes (Jebril, Stetka, Loveless, 2013).…”

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Wsparcie nowych mediów na Ukrainie w ramach polskiego programu pomocy rozwojowej

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Pospieszna

2017

10.14746/ssp

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After the relatively successful system transformation, some young democratic countries from Central and Eastern Europe which used to receive democratic aid in the 1980s and 90s have engaged as new donors in assisting pro-democratic changes in other post-communist countries. The donor-recipient relations between two post-communist countries can be observed on the example of the development of cooperation between Poland and Ukraine. This paper deals with Polish assistance to new media in Ukraine in from 2007-2017 as a part of supporting democracy in Ukraine under the Polish Cooperation Development Program. Firstly, this work examines whether the Polish government's support of Ukrainian media as part of cooperation development will be sustained regardless of changes in the Polish government. Secondly, the paper explores whether Polish NGOs tailor their projects, financed by the Polish MFA, to the recipients' respective needs and the current situation in Ukraine. By examining Polish media assistance, the authors aim to explain the efforts of the new donor in developing media in a partner country, emphasizing the relation between the involvement of external actors and the presence of independent media which play an important role in democratization processes.

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“…Ferment in international and intercultural communication has occurred for at least a decade. Heuristic conceptual efforts include the introduction of Islamic and other non-western worldviews to international communication (Mowlana 1994), the critical application of western mass communication theories to post-Soviet Eastern Europe (Downing 1996), and notions such as asymmetrical interdependence (Straubhaar 1991), among others. In intercultural communication studies, ferment is palpable in concepts such as third-culture building (Casmir 1993), in theorising communication and culture from a dialectical-dialogical perspective (Martin & Nakayama 1999), and others.…”

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Kraidy

2003

Journal of International Communication

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Internationalizing media theory

Cited by 93 publications

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Is there an Islamic communication? The persistence of ‘tradition’ and the lure of modernity

Is there an Islamic communication? The persistence of ‘tradition’ and the lure of modernity

Wsparcie nowych mediów na Ukrainie w ramach polskiego programu pomocy rozwojowej

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