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Ashraf, Syed Irfan, and Kristin Shamas. “Ashraf & Shamas.” Necrospace, Media and Remote War: Ethn... more

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Lebanese Subjectivities and Media Use: Post/Global Contexts

Media use is neither socially determined nor socially determinative outside of subjectivity, the ... more Media use is neither socially determined nor socially determinative outside of subjectivity, the process by which the self makes meaning of its place in the world. To further our understandings of media and social change, this dissertation examines the relationship between Lebanese media use and subjectivities in different times and geographic locations, including within the Lebanese diaspora. It incorporates three case studies, including textual analyses of 1) representations of Syro-Lebanese Oklahoman immigrants in The Oklahoman from 1901 to 1958; 2) discourses on media and communication in the contemporary Lebanese civil war novel; and 3) constructions of journalistic authority within the Lebanese blogosphere during the 2006 Summer Israeli-Hizballah war. Through these case studies, this dissertation investigates how global power is constructed/perpetuated/resisted via existing communication channels and patterns of relating that have been created throughout history

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Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research

Media, Culture & Society, 2014

In January 1994 the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico inaugurated a new era of media use for ... more In January 1994 the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico inaugurated a new era of media use for dissent. Since that time, an array of dissenting collectives and individuals have appropriated media technologies in order to make their voices heard or to articulate alternative identities. From Zapatista media to the Arab Spring, social movements throughout the world are taking over, hybridizing, recycling, and adapting media technologies. This new era poses a new set of challenges for academics and researchers in the field of Communication for Social Change (CfSC). Based on examples from Mexico, Lebanon, and Colombia, this article highlights and discusses four such research challenges: accounting for historical context; acknowledging the complexity of communication processes; anchoring analysis in a political economy of information and communication technologies; and positioning new research in relation to existing knowledge and literature within the field of communication and social ...

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Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research

Media, Culture & Society, 2014

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Rural Telephony, Metropolitan Internet and Global Politics of Development in South Lebanon

This paper explores how a group of Orthodox Christians in Jdeidet, Marjeyoun, South Lebanon have ... more This paper explores how a group of Orthodox Christians in Jdeidet, Marjeyoun, South Lebanon have historically accessed and re-appropriated communication technologies to maintain contact with Lebanese Christians in Beirut and abroad. It demonstrates how ties between the locations are frequently strained and occasionally severed due to regional and global events; yet, repeatedly, as impediments to interaction diminish, contact among groups of Marjeyounis is re-established. Upon such reconnecting, these Lebanese engage in hybrid processes of ‘sociation’, utilizing the entire spectrum of available technologies to amplify their interpersonal and group communications. Due to external contacts, local Marjeyounis consistently manage to bypass Lebanese political hierarchies and tap into outside resources to meet their development needs. Currently, online media are enabling unprecedented forms of familial and communal relations between Marjeyoun and the diaspora, further facilitating joint po...

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Necrospace, Media, and Remote War

Media Invisibility and a South Lebanese Village

Place, Power and Media: Mediated Responses to Globalization. D. Mcmillan, J. de Bruin, and J. Smith (Eds). Peter Lang. , 2018

While much literature on place-making focuses on ways in which a media presence or ‘visibility’ o... more While much literature on place-making focuses on ways in which a media presence or ‘visibility’ of place can facilitate place-based activism, political power, and socio-economic benefits, this chapter positions media invisibility of place as a form of communicative praxis. It employs Hjarvard, Mortensen, and Eskjær’s (2015) typology of three dynamics of mediatized conflicts—amplification, framing/performative agency, and co-structuring—to argue that, in the aftermath of the highly mediatized 2006 Israeli-Hizballah summer conflict, a group of villagers in southern Lebanon sought communication power by positioning their village ‘outside’ of media frames, severed from mediated continuum(s) of events. The chapter contextualizes this praxis of media invisibility as a response to mediatized conflict, including Lebanon’s transnational, sectarianized news media, and ongoing militarization of Lebanese communication structures. Embedded within the chapter is a discussion of how these research findings related to invisibility were facilitated by a reflexive research approach.

Social Change and Representations of Networks in Treme

HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis: The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans. G Dominique, C Dessinges, S Roberts (Eds.) Lexington Books., 2017

Despite being seen as cutting edge, critical television, HBO's Treme represents and enacts reform... more Despite being seen as cutting edge, critical television, HBO's Treme represents and enacts reformist rather than radical politics. The series positions networks as a means through which citizens gain “voice and visibility” within a participatory “civil society” predicated on democratic ideals--activism rooted in a liberal theory of politics that equates being “made visible” with being politically recognized and represented. Arguably, such liberal theory has been discredited by redevelopment in New Orleans after Katrina. This chapter considers how David Simon's Treme is structurally and narratively situated within these tensions. Although the series mediates reformist ideals related to the power of networks to bring about social change, the series powerfully highlights the transformative power of participatory journalism, and in doing so, sidesteps usual strains of technological determinism inherent to media representations of network power. Ultimately, though, the series reifies (or brings in to being) liberal, reformist ideals of network power within the field of televisual fiction.

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Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens' media research Article

by Benjamin Ferron and Kristin Shamas

Media, Culture & Society, 2014

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The Amman Message "Other": Repositioning Identity Politics for Dialogue and Justice

Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age: Islamic Extremism and Western Islamophobia. Mike Hardy, Fiyaz Mughal and Sarah Markiewicz (Eds.)London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016), 220-225.

(Previously published in 2007). The Amman Message, issued by H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan in ... more (Previously published in 2007). The Amman Message, issued by H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan in 2004, addresses issues related to identity, dialogue, and media justice. As exemplified through the Message, “clash of civilizations” and Orientalist discourses can be challenged by repositioning identity politics toward a mode of dialogue. As theoretically supported by postcolonial theory, the Amman Message provides an example of Muslim self-representation within contexts of Oriental-Occidental relations and global civil society movements for communication rights and media justice. The Message’s promotion of dialogue brings up issues related to violence and Western notions of media objectivity.

Shamas, Kristin. (2016). The Amman Message “Other”: Repositioning Identity Politics for Dialogue and Justice. In (eds.) Mike Hardy, Fiyaz Mughal and Sarah Markiewicz, Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age: Islamic Extremism and Western Islamophobia. (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers): 220-225.

http://www.jkp.com/uk/muslim-identity-in-a-turbulent-age-34890.html/

Books by Kristin Shamas

Ashraf & Shamas

by Syed Irfan Ashraf and Kristin Shamas

Necrospace, media and remote war: Ethnographic notes from Lebanon and Pakistan, 2006-2008, 2020

This chapter takes as its starting point the prevalence of death within geographic locations subj... more This chapter takes as its starting point the prevalence of death within geographic locations subjected to remote warfare. It argues that k¬illing from a distance is quite intimate, as the perpetrator perceives itself in relationship with an enemy “other” -- a subjectively assessed body located within a particular space. In this supposedly distant relationship, details of another human’s spatialization (its objective/subjective geographic characteristics), and the signs and connotations of its embodiment, come together to form the meanings of its death. We utilize critical perspectives on communication (construction of shared meanings) to examine two case studies of remote warfare in which this meaning-making nexus around space, bodies, and death was necropolitical (carried out under a rule of death). As Mbembe asserts, necropolitics seek absolute power over who is allowed to live in this world and who can be “justifiably” killed. Arguably, not all remote warfare is necropolitical. Some instances orient toward only a particular conflict or enemy; war is defined in its use value, as a necessity to resolve this conflict. Yet, in the two case studies--aerial bombardment and cluster munitions in Lebanon (2006-2008), and drone-warfare in Pakistan (2008)--remote warfare was imposed to maintain an imperial regime over which human bodies can be continually killed with impunity.

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Ashraf and Shamas-

Ashraf, Syed Irfan, and Kristin Shamas. “Ashraf & Shamas.” Necrospace, Media and Remote War: Ethn... more

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Lebanese Subjectivities and Media Use: Post/Global Contexts

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Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research

Media, Culture & Society, 2014

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Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research

Media, Culture & Society, 2014

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Rural Telephony, Metropolitan Internet and Global Politics of Development in South Lebanon

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Necrospace, Media, and Remote War

Media Invisibility and a South Lebanese Village

Place, Power and Media: Mediated Responses to Globalization. D. Mcmillan, J. de Bruin, and J. Smith (Eds). Peter Lang. , 2018

Social Change and Representations of Networks in Treme

HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis: The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans. G Dominique, C Dessinges, S Roberts (Eds.) Lexington Books., 2017

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Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens' media research Article

by Benjamin Ferron and Kristin Shamas

Media, Culture & Society, 2014

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The Amman Message "Other": Repositioning Identity Politics for Dialogue and Justice

Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age: Islamic Extremism and Western Islamophobia. Mike Hardy, Fiyaz Mughal and Sarah Markiewicz (Eds.)London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016), 220-225.

Ashraf & Shamas

by Syed Irfan Ashraf and Kristin Shamas

Necrospace, media and remote war: Ethnographic notes from Lebanon and Pakistan, 2006-2008, 2020

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