scholarly journals Media, identity, and online communities in a changing Arab world

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1035-1042
Author(s):  
Eid Mohamed ◽  
Aziz Douai ◽  
Adel Iskandar
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Arab World ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Media Politics

Our Special Issue captures the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ search for more stable governing models at crossroads of global, regional, and national challenges through systematic and integrated analyses of evolving and contested Arab visual and performing arts, including media (traditional and alternative), in revolutionary and unstable public spheres. This special issue examines the role of new media in the construction of online communities in the Arab world. It contributes to the understanding of how user-generated content empowers these new publics and the novel communities established by user comments on social media and news websites. Specifically, it explores these online communities and their perceptions of the role of user-generated content to contribute to politics, and potentially engage other citizens in the public debate.

The aesthetics of dissent: Culture and politics of transformation in the Arab world

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Eid Mohamed ◽  
Waleed Mahdi ◽  
Hamid Dabashi
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Media Politics ◽  
Shed Light

Our special issue captures the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ search for more stable governing models at a crossroads of global, regional, and national challenges through systematic and integrated analyses of evolving and contested Arab visual and performing arts in revolutionary and unstable public spheres. The issue presents a unique attempt to investigate these forms of cultural production as new modes of knowledge that shed light on the nature of social movements with the aim of expanding the critical reach of the disciplinary methods of political discourse and social theory. Contributors articulate the ways in which the Arab scene can contribute to the understanding of the rise of new social movements worldwide by exploring the methodological gaps in dominant Western discourses and theories.

Marketing strategies for electroacoustics and computer music

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSEMARY MOUNTAIN
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Electronic Computer ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Function ◽  
Aesthetic Preferences

This article explores possible strategies for appraising electroacoustic and computer music to enhance ‘marketability’. It is proposed that the specific aesthetics, characteristics and function of a work may be more salient features than those of the medium of composition (e.g. computer) to many listeners. It is suggested that the common practice of focusing on chronology, geography and specific schools is becoming less relevant due to a proliferation of home studios, the internet, and an increasing saturation of electronic sounds in new media contexts. On the other hand, aspects of form, mood, timbral palette, rhythmic complexity, etc., may become very useful bases for choosing works for a compilation CD or concert programme. The inadequacies of musicians' discourse for describing such attributes leads to the incorporation of analogies from visual and performing arts as well as a discussion of other possible approaches to ‘labelling’ and the inherent dangers in such a task. In conclusion, it is proposed that the time is ripe for shuffling the categories and regrouping composers' works according to aesthetic preferences, regardless of the percentage of electronic/computer content.

scholarly journals The role of the media in forming awareness and knowledge among members of society About Crisis 0f Virus COVID-19 (Corona) A field study at the level of the Arab world

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-36
Author(s):  
هيثم عبد الرحمن أحمد السامرائي
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Radio Programs

The study attempted to reveal the role of the media in forming awareness and knowledge among members of society about the crisis 0f virus COVID-19. It aimed to get acquainted with the role of traditional and new media in dealing with this pandemic and assess its credibility in the Arab countries to deliver the correct news and information about this crisis to the public. In this study, the researcher used the descriptive analytical method through the method of surveying the media and electronic platforms used by the public in the Arab world to communicate with state agencies to obtain various information related to the crisis 0f virus COVID-19. The researcher designed a questionnaire to collect data for this study consisting of 7 axes and includes 50 questions. The study sample reached 1060 community members, male and female, from the age of 20 to 60 years, representing 19 Arab countries. The study concluded a number of results, the most important of which are: the success of media briefings and press conferences held by Arab governments during the Corona crisis, as well as the emergence of a spokesperson in this crisis in a convincing and logical manner In addition to the success of the media in educating society about preventive and preventive measures through TV and radio programs and social media sites, The study also found that 60% of the respondents were concerned during the crisis, following up on news related to the country's efforts to combat the virus Finally, it was noted that the doctors seized the media as the first line of defines, unlike celebrities of social media who lost their credibility and pulled the rug from under their legs due to the lack of confidence among members of the public in their information and that some were a source of spreading remorse.

Theatre and the Presidential Debates: the Role of Performance in Voter Choice

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Watson
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Voter Choice ◽  
Performer Training

The fictionalized account in the recent film The Queen of Tony Blair's coaching of Her Majesty into a more voter-friendly response to the death of Princess Diana, largely through the medium of television, is a pertinent reminder of how the presentation of self on television subtly modifies the presentation of self in everyday life. In this article, Ian Watson considers how the now-ritualized debates between the main contenders in American presidential elections are stage-managed to enhance what their supporters suppose to be their candidate's most sympathetic features – supposedly learning the lessons of the first such debate, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, which displayed Nixon in such an unappealing light. However, what are ostensibly strengths or weaknesses may be read as quite other by an audience attuned to reading signifiers in film or television drama – or simply empathic towards what others perceive as failings, as in the case of reactions to George W. Bush's inarticulacies, awkward mannerisms, and failed jokes, which some read not as signs of ineptness but of an endearing humanity. Ian Watson, who is a Contributing Editor of New Theatre Quarterly, teaches at Rutgers University, Newark, where he is the Acting Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. He is author of Towards a Third Theatre: Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret (Routledge, 1993) and of Negotiating Cultures: Eugenio Barba and the Intercultural Debate (Manchester University Press, 2002). He edited Performer Training across Cultures (Routledge, 2001), and has published numerous articles on theatre in scholarly journals.

Administrating social media: The significance of managers

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azi Lev-On
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Communities Of Practice

As social media and online communities of practice are becoming significant organizational arenas in the public service, it is important to study content uploaded to these communities, the dynamics of conversations that they host, and their perceived effect. Much literature about such communities describes them as environments based on user-generated content, while the role of their management is frequently overlooked. This study shifts the focus from community members to managers, and demonstrates the centrality of managers in terms of content production, initiation of and contribution to discussions, requesting and providing information and assistance. The discussion justifies a novel and more nuanced view of communities of practice not as arenas of user-generated content, but rather as environments based on interplay and interactions between members and managers.

scholarly journals Caribbean Pelau

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Campbell ◽  
Jeanette Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Caribbean

Call for submissions for a Special Issue which will showcase new directions of the visual and performing arts in the Caribbean region.

scholarly journals Introduction

2014 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Nóra Nyirő ◽  
Mihály Gálik
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Media And Communication

This special issue of Budapest Management Review is guest-edited in collaboration with the Working Group on “Audience interactivity and participation” of the COST A ction I S0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”. COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research at the European level. The Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” (2010–2014) is coordinating research efforts into the key transformations of European audiences within a changing media and communication environment, identifying their complex interrelationships with the social, cultural and political areas of E uropean societies. A range of interconnected but distinct topics concerning audiences are being developed by four Working Groups: (1) New media genres, media literacy and trust in the media; (2) Audience interactivity and participation; (3) The role of media and ICT use for evolving social relationships; and (4) Audience transformations and social integration.

Naming the Frame: the Role of the Pre-Interpretive in Theatrical Reception

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (50) ◽  
pp. 161-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Watson
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Suspension Of Disbelief

When is a theatre event not a theatre event? Where, in the shifting relationships between (and even the shifting definitions of) actor and audience in modern and postmodern performance, is a useful line to be drawn – if only for purposes of analysis and discussion? How adequate are such traditional concepts as the ‘suspension of disbelief’, when the distinction between the ‘realities’ of the theatre and of the everyday begin to merge or dissolve? Ian Watson, an advisory editor of NTQ who teaches in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the Newark Campus of Rutgers University, New Jersey, here explores how the issue is affected by the differing pre-interpretive perspectives of performers and spectators. In this light he describes three recent theatre events – the Broadway production of Death and the Maiden, Harold Pinter's London production of Circe and Bravo, and an instance of Augusto Boal's ‘Invisible Theatre’ – to suggest that it is in these perceptual variations that the clue to understanding theatrical reality may lie.

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