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Ever-increasing
convergence of satellite, Internet, digital and wireless technology
means that transnational broadcasting is not a limited field
of study but the wave of the future. Over the past six years,
the Adham Center's biannual e-journal Transnational Broadcasting
Studies (TBS) has established itself as a vital niche publication
in the field of Arab satellite broadcasting. Many scholars and
professionals consider the journal indispensable as both a resource
and a forum for discussion about satellite broadcasting in the
Arab and Islamic worlds. Now the Adham Center at the American
University in Cairo is co-publishing a peer-reviewed, hard-copy
edition of TBS with the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College,
University of Oxford.
In addition to carrying TBS's usual online coverage of regional
media developments, interviews, conference reports, and reviews,
the hard copy edition will feature a new section devoted to
academic papers. These will be peer-reviewed by a new editorial
board of respected international scholars, chaired by Dr. Walter
Armbrust, Hourani Fellow of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at
St. Antony's College, and director of the Middle East Centre.
TBS already is essential reading for academics, professionals,
researchers, and students studying the cultural, social, political,
and economic impact of these technologies in the Arab and Muslim
worlds. The new print edition with its peer-reviewed academic
section will build on this reputation while augmenting the journal's
depth and broadening its scope. To this end, the editors welcome
contributions from Middle East scholars who look at mass media
in general and Arab satellite broadcasting in particular from
the perspective of established academic disciplines such as
anthropology, sociology, history, political science, and language
studies.
Contributions
are invited for the hard-copy and online editions of Transnational
Broadcasting Studies. Academic papers submitted for peer
review must be products of formal research or scholarship in
the field of transnational broadcasting in the Arab and Islamic
worlds.
Studies to be considered for inclusion in this section may be
no longer than 8,000 words, including footnotes, and must conform
to The Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions should be
sent, along with an abstract of no longer than half a page,
to Dr. Humphrey T. Davies, managing editor of TBS at tbs@aucegypt.edu
or at TBS c/o Adham Center for Television Journalism (114),
The American University in Cairo, 113 Sharia Kasr El Aini, Cairo
11511 Egypt.
Please
note that if you wish your paper to be included in Spring/Summer
issue of TBS 14, your submission must be recieved by TBS no
later than 1 March 2005. Papers received after that date will
be considered on a rolling basis for future issues.
Themes
to be covered include:
Regional satellite landscape
Audiences
Glocalization
Public sphere and civil society
Satellite broadcasting and international conflict
Public diplomacy and propaganda
Economic and cultural impacts
Religion, gender, class, and ethnicity
Cultural hegemonies, hybridization, and resistance
Imported media and cultural identities
Diasporas
Representation and aesthetics
History of transnational media in the region
Co-Publishers
Adham Center
for Television Journalism, The American University in Cairo,
Egypt
Middle East
Centre, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK
Senior
Editors
Hussein
Amin, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Walter Armbrust,
University of Oxford, UK
S. Abdallah
Schleifer, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Managing
Editor
Humphrey
Davies
Deputy
Managing Editor
Lindsay Wise
Reviews
Editor
Ralph Berenger, American University in Cairo, Egypt
EDITORIAL
BOARD
Chair
Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford, UK
Members
Jon Alterman,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington,
D.C.
Hussein
Amin, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Jon Anderson,
Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
Douglas
A. Boyd, University of Kentucky, United States
Kai Hafez,
University of Erfurt, Germany
Michael
Hudson, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Saad Eddin
Ibrahim, American University in Cairo, Egypt
William
A. Rugh, Georgetown University, United States
Tarik Sabry,
University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Naomi Sakr,
University of Westminster, United Kingdom
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