Civic Discourse And Digital Age Communications In The Middle East Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: From the Heartland of America
	Introduction: From the Banks of the Nile
Discourse I	Diplomacy, Transnational Communications, and Mediated Discourse
1	Television and Civic Discourse in Postwar Lebanon	3
2	Why kids Want Their MTV: A Cross-Cultural Perspective	19
3	Internet Pornography: Between Constitutionality and Morality	35
Discourse II	Western Cultural Invasion: Myth or Monster?
4	Media Images of Arabs, Muslims, and the Middle East in the United States	55
5	Arab/Islam Phobia: The Making of the Media in the West	71
Discourse III	Cyberspace Digital Technologies: An Overview
6	Information Technology, Democracy, and Development: An Overview	87
7	Arab Countries' Global Telephone Traffic Networks	93
8	Digital Communications in the Arab World Entering the 21st Century	109
9	Building Second-Language Skills for Journalism Students: Using the World Wide Web to Edit Student Stories Long Distance	141
10	New Electronic Arab Newspapers: Techniques and Distribution	151
Discourse IV	Privatization of Media in the Middle East
11	Singing the Arab Market Economy's Notes	159
12	Telecommunications Management in the Arab World: The Case History of Arab Radio and Television	167
13	A Q Study of Reactions to Direct Broadcast Satellite Television Programming in Saudi Arabia	191
Discourse V	New Journalism: The Online Environment and Law
14	Within the Limits of the Law: Press Law 1995-Arafat's Answer to Freedom of the Press	207
15	Egyptian Press Journalists' Professional Standards and the Challenge of Privatization	219
16	Egyptian and Palestinian Press Laws: Prospects and Concerns	233
17	Cultural Treatment of International Events: A Content Analysis of American and Egyptian Newscasting	245
	Global Forum: Dialogues for the Next Millennium
Article 1	Culture and Communication: A Global Information Society	265
Article 2	The Role of Cyber Cafes in Developing Internet Literacy in Egypt	271
Article 3	The Role of the Media in the Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediteranean	275
Article 4	The Rise of Private Media Around the World: Picking Up Where Textbooks Stop	279
Article 5	Culture and Communication in the Global Information Society	287
Article 6	Selling Oil to Arabs	291
	Author Index	299
	Subject Index	303
	About the Editors	313
	About the Contributors	315