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Publication Race, Ethnicity and Global Communication Studies(2007-01-01) Kraidy, Marwan MRace, as Downing and Husband (2005) remind us, is a ‘social category’ without a ‘scientific basis’ (p. 2). And yet, for better or worse, race is a fundamental dimension of contemporary life, one of the few master tropes that define identities, elicit solidarities and operate as an instrument of othering. Though ‘more inclusive and less objectifying’ (Spencer, p. 45), ethnicity is a ‘transient concept’ (p. 47) that, perhaps more so than ‘race’, reflects public and scholarly understandings of difference. They can also be burning issues in the life of nations and regions. As I am writing these words, public discourse in the United States has for several weeks been agitated by radio talk-show Don Imus’s racist comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, the French intelligentsia is enjoying a collective sigh of relief at the weaker-than expected performance in the 2007 presidential election of the far-right and xenophobic French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, and sectarian polarization between Sunnis and Shi’as is gripping the Arab world, fuelled by the botched US–British occupation of Iraq, rhetorical war between the US and Iran and the consequences of the Israel–Hizbullah war in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.Publication Convergence and Disjuncture in Global Digital Culture: An Introduction(2017-01-01) Kraidy, Marwan MIn the 1980s and 1990s, the question “Is there a global culture?” fueled heated debates as intellectual opponents debated the social, political, economic, and cultural consequences of globalization. Guest-edited by Marwan M. Kraidy, this Special Section of the International Journal of Communication by global communication scholars revisits the discussion on global culture in light of the digital revolution. Originally presented at CARGC’s second Biennial Symposium in April 2016, these articles do not pretend to provide a comprehensive answer to the existence or lack thereof of a global digital culture. Rather, they consider this question as an intellectual provocation to revisit how the universal relates to the particular, the global to the local, the digital to the material. Questions guiding these articles include: How do networks transmute individual autonomy and the sovereignty of the body? How is digital culture fomenting disjuncture across the globe in dissident, marginal, or rogue formations? How is the digital affecting the ways people work and play, how they experience and judge beauty, and how they protest? Most fundamentally, does digitization herald a new chapter in how we understand ourselves? To read this special issue of International Journal of Communication in full, visit http://ijoc.org.Publication Transnational Advertising and International Relations: US Press Discourses on the Benetton "We on Death Row" Campaign(2003-01-01) Kraidy, Marwan M; Goeddertz, TamaraOver the years, the Benetton Company has repeatedly created controversy with flamboyant advertising campaigns, provocative statements and graphic pictures – what Giroux (1994: 21) described as ‘hyperventilating realism’ – on global social issues such as AIDS, war, politics, race, religion (Tinic, 1997) and, most recently, capital punishment. In effect, Benetton advertising campaigns have become a unique ‘[form] of global communication and a significant site of cultural production’ (Tinic, 1997: 4). In this paper we analyze Benetton’s 2000 ‘We on Death Row’ campaign as a site of cultural production where ideological differences between the United States and Europe are played out. More specifically, we examine the mass-mediated public discourse framing the campaign in the so-called prestige press in the United States. We examine on the discursive boundaries surrounding imported cultural forms like the Benetton advertisements, and, using the Gramscian concept of hegemony, focus on how these boundaries are established through the use of media frames. Our analysis will also demonstrate that transnational advertising is a discursive space where international relations are played out.Publication Revolutionary Creative Labor(2016-01-01) Kraidy, MarwanPublication The Revolutionary Public Sphere: The Case of the Arab Uprisings(2017-01-01) Kraidy, Marwan; Krikorian, MarinaThe popular rebellions that swept Arab countries starting with Tunisia in December 2010 spawned an active sphere of dissenting cultural production. Although media harnessed by revolutionaries include public space, graffiti, street art, puppet shows, poetry, songs, cartoons, digital art, and music videos, many analyses have focused on social media as digital platforms. Social media and mobile telephones introduced a new element to political activism, but the focus on technology provides a partial understanding of activist communication. A more comprehensive picture of dissent in the Arab uprisings requires us to understand how revolutionaries have represented themselves and how various media, digital and otherwise, were incorporated in these communicative processes. In other words, we need to focus on the myths, ideologies, and histories that inspired slogans, murals, and poems and made them socially relevant and politically potent—of the creative permutations of symbols, words, images, colors, shapes, and sounds that revolutionaries deployed to contest despots, to outwit each other, to attract attention, and to conjure up new social and political imaginaries. Together, the articles in this Special Issue accomplish just this task. Originally presented at the inaugural biennial symposium of what was then the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication in 2013, the articles you are about to read exemplify one of the fundamental principles undergirding the institutional mission of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication: a robust dialogue between theoretical advances on one hand, and deep linguistic, cultural, historical knowledge of the world region under study, on the other.Publication Neo-Ottoman Cool: Turkish Popular Culture in the Arab Public Sphere(2013-01-01) Kraidy, Marwan; Al-Ghazzi, OmarPublication Review of Media and the Path to Peace, by Gadi Wolfsfeld(2005-08-26) Kraidy, Marwan MPublication Convergence and Disjuncture in Global Digital Culture(2017-01-01) Kraidy, MarwanThe question “Is there a global culture?” fueled heated debates in the 1980s and 1990s, when intellectual opponents grappled with the sociopolitical and cultural consequences of globalization. Deploying notions of dependency, imperialism, homogenization, and hybridization, dueling thinkers espoused rival scenarios of cultural domination, mixture, and resistance. A quarter century later, with the explosion of digital expression around the world, it is time to revisit the debate and ask: Is there a global digital culture?Publication Media and Communications(2017-01-01) Couldry, Nick; Rodriguez, Clemencia; Bolin, Göran; Cohen, Julie; Goggin, Gerard; Kraidy, Marwan M; Iwabuchi, Koichi; Lee, Kwang-Suk; Qiu, Jack; Volkmer, Ingrid; Wasserman, Herman; Zhao, YuezhiPublication Les médias en Arabie saoudite: Luttes politiques et controverses sociales, de Star Academy au Printemps arabe(2012-01-01) Kraidy, MarwanNulle part dans le monde arabe les inquiétudes au sujet du changement social et culturel n’ont été aussi passionnément discutées qu’en Arabie saoudite, où la doctrine salafiste du wahhabisme est au coeur du système, en tant que conception sacro sainte de l’authenticité enracinée dans la pureté culturelle et religieuse et la séparation entre hommes et femmes. L’avènement de la « téléréalité » au milieu des années 2000 a réactivé ces débats dans le royaume. Star Academy, notamment, populaire émission de téléréalité en langue arabe, diffusée par satellite depuis le Liban par la Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) depuis décembre 2003, a connu des taux d’audience record et a suscité une intense controverse en Arabie saoudite, vidant les rues des villes et animant les sermons dans les mosquées, les éditoriaux et les débats télévisés. J’ai décrit ailleurs comment cette émission était devenue le champ de bataille entre les radicaux, les conservateurs et les libéraux saoudiens. Cet article décrit les discours, qui se recoupent, des islamistes saoudiens au sujet de la télévision, en mentionnant les diverses rhétoriques de censure et de critique engagée. Il se base pour ce faire sur plusieurs textes primaires, et notamment un sermon qui a connu une grande diffusion, Satan Academy, du cheikh Mohammed Salih Al Mounajid. La manière dont les controverses publiques au sujet de la téléréalité ont cristallisé de nouveaux développements de très anciens débats est donc examinée.