Framing Islamic History Through Interactive Game (Case Study: Ibn Battuta Games)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahina Nugrahani ◽  
Wandah Wibawanto
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Interactive Game ◽  
Effective Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

<p>Media in various platforms have a significant role in constructing the paradigm of Islam in society. Unfortunately, unbalanced justification by the media tends to cause misconceptions about the Islamic concept, especially in America and Europe. This justification then is often used as a base in constructing the narrative of a game. Moreover, they seem to exploit these justifications in a more apparent manner than other forms of media. In the digital age, video games transform to be one of mainstream media that shapes our comprehension and understanding of the world by constructing, conveying and iterating various representations. Therefore, video game referred as the most potential and effective media to convey positive values to users. "Ibn Battuta" game developed as an interactive media that offer different point of view about Islam, to differentiate it with the other games in general. By exposing Ibn Battuta as one of the Muslim figures who made a glorious milestone in history of science. Ibn Battuta is known as an adventurer, merchant and inspirational figure by spreading the values of Islam to most areas of coastal Asia. The game reveals the travel records of Ibn Battuta in the first half of the 14th century, which also reveals the wide scope of the Muslim life at that time.  This paper is based primarily on qualitative research and content analysis. The methodology used for content analysis involves playing the whole Ibn Battuta games while taking notes and screenshots of relevant visual signifiers, recording the narrative and analysing the structure of gameplay. Through Ibn Battuta games, the symbolic and ideological dimensions of in-game representational history related to Islam has been analysed from different perspectives. Immersive worlds as given environments in this game, which may be explored in a nonlinear way by players - include history, artifacts and objects - allow users to learn about the history of Islam by exploring the environment and its objects in a relatively open-ended way.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong><em>Islamic history, interactive game, the structure</em></p>

scholarly journals Remix in the age of ubiquitous remix

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652199445
Author(s):  
Abby S. Waysdorf
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Accepted Part ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Way

What is remix today? No longer a controversy, no longer a buzzword, remix is both everywhere and nowhere in contemporary media. This article examines this situation, looking at what remix now means when it is, for the most part, just an accepted part of the media landscape. I argue that remix should be looked at from an ethnographic point of view, focused on how and why remixes are used. To that end, this article identifies three ways of conceptualizing remix, based on intention rather than content: the aesthetic, communicative, and conceptual forms. It explores the history of (talking about) remix, looking at the tension between seeing remix as a form of art and remix as a mode of ‘talking back’ to the media, and how those tensions can be resolved in looking at the different ways remix originated. Finally, it addresses what ubiquitous remix might mean for the way we think about archival material, and the challenges this brings for archives themselves. In this way, this article updates the study of remix for a time when remix is everywhere.

scholarly journals Media, Culture and Indigenous Languages in Pakistan: A Critical Review

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Irem Sultana ◽  
Malik Adnan ◽  
Muhammad Imran Mehsud
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research paper inspected the role of Pakistani media to protect indigenous languages and culture in Pakistan. The study examined the situation; if Pakistani media outpours concern with the native languages or not. The article also checked the media landscape, its language-wise segregation and scenario of literacy in different areas of the country. The outcomes of the study showed that Pakistani media is neglecting the indigenous languages. The study results exhibited clearly that media houses’ focus on protecting native languages, is not profound. The findings also showed that foreign ownership of Media houses plays a role in neglecting indigenous language promotions. The current study presented that Pakistani mainstream media is damaging the local and native languages. The study was the outcome of qualitative content analysis and in-depth interviews of senior communication experts.

Young adults know that their issues are not represented in the news: Israeli young adults and mainstream news media

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benny Nuriely ◽  
Moti Gigi ◽  
Yuval Gozansky
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the ways socio-economic issues are represented in mainstream news media and how it is consumed, understood and interpreted by Israeli young adults (YAs). It examines how mainstream media uses neo-liberal discourse, and the ways YAs internalize this ethic, while simultaneously finding ways to overcome its limitations. Design/methodology/approach This was a mixed methods study. First, it undertook content analysis of the most popular Israeli mainstream news media among YAs: the online news site Ynet and the TV Channel 2 news. Second, the authors undertook semi-structured in-depth interviews with 29 Israeli YAs. The analysis is based on an online survey of 600 young Israelis, aged 18–35 years. Findings Most YAs did not perceive mainstream media as enabling a reliable understanding of the issues important to them. The content analysis revealed that self-representation of YAs is rare, and that their issues were explained, and even resolved, by older adults. Furthermore, most of YAs' problems in mainstream news media were presented using a neo-liberal perspective. Finally, from the interviews, the authors learned that YAs did not find information that could help them deal with their most pressing economic and social issue, in the content offered by mainstream media. For most of them, social media overcomes these shortcomings. Originality/value Contrary to research that has explored YAs’ consumerism of new media outlets, this article explores how YAs in Israel are constructed in the media, as well as the way in which YAs understand mainstream and new social media coverage of the issues most important to them. Using media content analysis and interviews, the authors found that Young Adults tend to be ambivalent toward media coverage. They understand the lack of media information: most of them know that they do not learn enough from the media. This acknowledgment accompanies their tendency to internalize the neo-liberal logic and conservative Israeli national culture, in which class and economic redistribution are largely overlooked. Mainstream news media uses neo-liberal discourse, and young adults internalize this logic, while simultaneously finding ways to overcome the limitations this discourse offers. They do so by turning to social media, mainly Facebook. Consequently, their behavior maintains the logic of the market, while also developing new social relations, enabled by social media.

scholarly journals Epos und Periplous: Dichtung und Dokumentation in Camões’ Lusíadas

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-270
Author(s):  
Helga Thalhofer
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
New Science ◽  
Book Printing ◽  
External Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

AbstractIn Luís de Camões’s epic The Lusiads, diverse semantic levels of writing overlap. The intertwining of poetry and documentation results here in perspectives on writing that judge it in different ways, since a tension springs up in The Lusiads between poetry and the new fields of knowledge concerning experimental ‘New Science’ and nautical experience. With respect to the poetics of The Lusiads, this tension becomes evident when a line is drawn from the Renaissance to classical antiquity. A further level of writing can be seen in the field of the shipping of writings – primarily of the founding work of The Lusiads – which was, from a textually external point of view and from that of the history of the media – facilitated by book printing; conversely, the process of writing down ships, that is, their routes registered on maps and in the periplus, manifests itself in Camões’s epic in the form of a documentary mode of writing.

Definitions of Poverty and the Rise of the Muslim Urban Poor

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Preliminary Attempt ◽  
The Poor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medieval Islam ◽  
The Way

Poverty in medieval Islam is an enormous topic. It is worth considering from a historian's point of view, especially in the light of what has been accomplished by historians of Rome, Byzantium, and the medieval and modern West who have dealt with poverty and the poor. But as always, the sources for Islamic history, especially for the formative early centuries, present difficulties. Here I wish to make a preliminary attempt at dealing with part of this problem. I shall begin by considering an event which represents a turning point in the history of the Muslim poor, or more accurately, in the way poverty and the poor have been represented in modern historical scholarship on medieval Islam. Then I shall suggest a way in which this event may be set in context, and a possible strategy for handling some of the relevant sources. This strategy involves the identification of different, competing ways in which the poor were defined in the first centuries of Islam.

scholarly journals Sektarianisme dalam Sejarah Islam

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-189
Author(s):  
Humaira Azzahra
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Government Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Over Time ◽  
A Share

The presence of sects in Islamic history was initially ridden by political factors. They were born as a political stream that has a share in government power. However, over time, these schools began to stand on the level of aqidah and divinity. Each sect has its own understanding of divine principles, politics, and Islamic values. It cannot be denied that this is a global concern for Muslims because it has the potential to cause division. Among the sects recorded in the history of Islam are the Shia, Khawarij, Murji'ah, Qadariyah, Jabariyah, Mu'tazilah, Asy'Ariyah, and Maturidiyah. The importance of studying sectarianism in the history of Islam is to understand the Islamic patterns that exist in various countries so as to make us have a wiser point of view in seeing diversity in religion.

scholarly journals Before the ‘Arab Spring’: How challengers pushed counter-issues in Egypt’s hybrid media system

2019 ◽  
pp. 175063521989461
Author(s):  
Hanan Badr
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Arab Spring

Eight years after the ‘Arab Spring’, literature is still marked by techno-deterministic interpretations. This article contributes to examining the role of agenda-building processes just before the outbreak of the Egyptian uprising in 2011 within authoritarian systems. Using the ‘hybrid media system’ concept, the article not only focuses on new media effects but, by including print media, it takes into consideration the media system in its entirety. Focusing on Khaled Said’s case as a counter-issue, the qualitative content analysis investigates how challengers in Egypt successfully pushed the media salience of police torture onto the mainstream media agenda. By reconstructing the issue cycle and intermedia spill-over effects, the author investigates the agenda-building processes within hybrid media systems in Arab authoritarian contexts. The qualitative content analysis includes 415 articles and posts from 12 diverse print, online and social media outlets between June 2010 and January 2011. The central finding is that successful spill-over effects occurred from online media to private print media, even though state media tried to ignore the issue. The coverage transferred the issue’s salience from new media into mainstream media, thus reaching wider non-politicized audiences. These proven interlinkages between old and new media are often an overlooked aspect in the literature on media and the ‘Arab Spring’.

Marketing challenges: a personal history

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 414-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Fuat Firat
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Research ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
History Of

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges that have faced and do now face marketing scholars through the lens of one scholar who entered the field in early 1970s and who continues to observe the developments in the world and in the disciplines of marketing and consumer research. Design/methodology/approach – Historical journey through the trials and tribulations of one scholar as well as the developments in marketing and consumer research as experienced from this scholar’s point of view. A story of how this one scholar’s ideas and impressions grew out of his experiences. Findings – Challenges against introduction of new perspectives and ideas have existed in the disciplines of marketing and consumer research, and they continue to exist. Research limitations/implications – This is only a personal history of experiences one scholar has had in the field. Practical implications – For marketing and consumer research disciplines to positively contribute to humanity’s growth and search for meaning, how scholars in the field think of their disciplines, their relationship to ideologies and the purposes for their existence as scholars may need a radical change. Social implications – Considering the challenges faced and possibility of alternative modes of scholarship and knowledge generation, as well as the recognition of the key positional advantage of marketing and consumer research scholars in contemporary culture for understanding the human condition, will help humanity’s quest for a world with greater peacefulness and harmony. Originality/value – The paper presents a perspective of disciplinary history not often heard in the mainstream media of the two disciplines.

scholarly journals MUGHALKINGDOM IN INDIA ACCORDING TO HAMKAS SEJARAH UMAT ISLAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 970-978
Author(s):  
Mohamad Zulfazdlee Abul Hassan Ashari ◽  
◽  
Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor ◽  
Nursafira Lubis Safian ◽  
Mohd Hafiz Safiai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Research Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Interest And Knowledge

India is important in the study of Islamic history and civilization research as it was one of the earliest territories that received Islamic preaching and was the site for various Islamic kingdoms until the year 1857. The achievements of Islamic civilization in India, particularly during the Mughal era, added sparkle to the glory of Islamic history. For this reason, the facts relating the Mughal Kingdom in India have been discussed in writings on Islamic history and civilization, including the book, Sejarah Umat Islam, by Hamka. The purpose of this article is to study Hamkas work on the history of the Mughal Kingdom in India and analyse the narration and discussion he submitted. This research adopts a qualitative approach using historial study and content analysis to gather and analyse data. Research results find that Hamka had the interest and knowledge in writing Islamic history by describing Muslim societies and Islamic states from their inception to their end, including the Mughal Kingdom in India. In his narrative of Mughal history, Hamka inserted the element of teaching or ibrah (lesson), particularly when discussing the time of Mughal decline. The narrative approach is consistent with the philosophy of Islamic history that stresses on the ibrah concept, which was meaningful to Hamkas own personality as a missionary. Hence, his work, SejarahUmatIslam, proved Hamkas ability to discuss Islamic history, and simultaneously resonated with readers interested in issues of Islamic history.

scholarly journals ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’—Australian media industry attitudes to regulation and accountability reforms

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Lidberg
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Independent Media

When the Australian Independent Media Inquiry (IMI) published its report most mainstream media reporting focused on the suggested statutory-based News Media Council and largely ignored any discussion of the underlying issues—public trust in journalism and news media and accountability for its practices. The aim of this study was to capture the attitudes held by the media industry toward these issues. Based on a content analysis of 33 submissions to the IMI and the Convergence Review it can be concluded that only 15 percent of the submissions addressed trust or media accountability issues. Furthermore, the submissions illustrate a disconnect between the attitudes held by some media proprietors and the trust deficit reality displayed in multiple studies of the public’s attitudes to journalism and news media.

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