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Acknowledgments xi

Introduction

Arab Media: Power and Weakness Kai Hafez 1

Media Effects

Chapter 1 Political Opportunity Structures: Effects of Arab Media Marc Lynch 17

Chapter 2 Lack of Influence? Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Making in the Arab World Russell E. Lucas 33

Chapter 3 The Effects of Islamist Media on the Mainstream Press in Egypt Carola Richter 46

Media Audiences

Chapter 4 Arab Media Audience Research: Developments and Constraints Hussein Amin 69

Chapter 5 From Activity to Interactivity: The Arab Audience Marwan M. Kraidy 91

Media Content

Chapter 6 Arab World Media Content Studies: A Meta-Analysis of a Changing Research Agenda Muhammad Ayish 105

Chapter 7 The Political Elites' Dominance over the Visual Space: A Qualitative and Quantitative Content Study of Lebanese Television Katharina Notzold 125

Media Ethics

Chapter 8 The Unknown Desire for "Objectivity": Journalism Ethics in Arab (and Western) Journalism Kai Hafez 147

Chapter 9 Agents of Change? Journalism Ethics in Lebanese and Jordanian Journalism Education Judith Pies 165

Media Economy

Chapter 10 Gaps in the Market: Insights from Scholarly Work on Arab Media Economics Naomi Sakr 185

Chapter 11 Orientalism and the Economics of Arab Broadcasting Tourya Guaaybess 199

Media Law and Policy

Chapter 12 Media Policy and Law in Egypt and Jordan: Continuities and Changes Orayb Aref Najjar 217

Media Cultures

Chapter 13 Arab Media and Cultural Studies: Rehearsing New Questions Tarik Sabry 237

Chapter 14 Through the Back Door: Syrian Television Makers between Secularism and Islamization Christa Salamandra 252

The Authors 263

Index 267