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Publics, Imaginaries, Soft Power, and Epistemologies on the Eve of the Arab Uprisings; Leila Hudson and Adel Iskandar SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL CULTURE 1. Arab Media, Political Stagnation, and Civil Engagement: Reflections on the Eve of the Arab Spring; Mohamed Zayani 2. New Media, Social Change, and the Communication Revolution in an Egyptian Village; Sahar Khamis 3. Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent; Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey 4. From Brotherhood to Blogosphere: Dynamics of Cyberactivism and Identity in the Egyptian Ikhwan; Courtney RadschNEW GENRES AND LITERACIES 5. Preaching Islam to the Video Game Generation: New Media Literacies and Religious Edutainment in the Arab World; Vit Sisler 6. Neopatriarchy in Syrian and Turkish Television Drama: Between the Culture Industry and the Dialect Imagination; Leila Hudson 7. Media Fatwas and Fatwa Editors: Challenging and Preserving Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Religious Authority; Bettina Graf 8. Technology Literacies of the New Media: Phrasing the World in the 'Arab Easy' (R)evolution; Yves Gonzalez-Quijano GLOBAL EFFECTS 9. BBC Broadcasting in the Middle East: The Evolution of Public Diplomacy; Annabelle Sreberny 10. New Media and Public Diplomacy in the New Arab World; Philip Seib 11. Al Jazeera English as a Conciliatory Medium; Mohammed el-Nawawy and Shawn Powers 12. Imagined Coherence: Transnational Media and the Arab Diaspora in Europe; Khalil Rinnawi EVOLUTION OF MEDIA THEORIES13. The State of Arab Journalism Studies; Noha Mellor 14. Arab and Western Media Systems Typologies; Kai Hafez 15. Defying Definition: Toward Reflexivity in 'Arab Media' Studies; Adel Iskandar.