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Maher Hamoud - Political Economy of Egyptian Media, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2023

Political Economy of Egyptian Media

Business and Military Elite Power and Communication After 2011

Av Maher Hamoud

Del i serien Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

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This book critically analyses the hegemony of Egypt's business and military elites and the private media they own or control. Arguing that this hegemony requires the exercise of power to maintain consent under changing conditions such as the 2011 uprising and the 2013 military coup, the book answers the central question of why and how Egypt's ruling elites control the media. Situated within the interdisciplinary domain of 'critical political economy' (CPE), the book focuses on popular privately-owned newspapers and TV channels and their ownership using a qualitative approach involving fifteen interviews conducted over seven years with key actors and experts in the Egyptian media landscape for unprecedented insight. As the first book on the political economy of Egyptian media, The Political Economy of Egyptian Media serves as a case study and a country profile and will be of appeal to scholars and experts of Middle Eastern studies, political sciences, media and the political economy of communication, among others.
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Maher Hamoud is an Associate Scholar at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He teaches political economy, and his research focuses on development politics in the Global South.

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Adopting a critical political economy approach and drawing on interviews with media experts, Hamoud problematizes the notion that a privatized media can be truly independent and instead, convincingly shows how vested economic and political interests control, shape, and dominate the media and determine the content of public discourse. The book addresses the puzzle of how the Egyptian people demanded the removal of long ruling authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak only to end up supporting a military coup that established military rule. By tracing the evolution of the media landscape in post-uprising Egypt, Hamoud demonstrates how the media has played an important role in legitimizing power relations and determining which discourses became legitimate and dominant, and which discourses were prohibited and banned. By showing how media control plays an important role in shaping public opinion and political outcomes, Hamoud makes an important contribution to media studies and political economy.

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