Dan Caspi – författare

This book presents a study that examined two large minority groups in Israeli society: Russian immigrant who arrived as a ""returning Diaspora,"" and the Arab citizens of Israel, who became an unwilling minority with the establishment of the State in 1948. The study focuses on three interrelated issues: the nature and content of the media provided for and by these two minority communities; the way the minority members use domestic and global media in a multimedia and multilingual environment; and the patterns of media usage involved in the construction of hybrid identities that forms the basis for integration within the mainstream society.

This book presents a study that examined two large minority groups in Israeli society: Russian immigrant who arrived as a ""returning Diaspora,"" and the Arab citizens of Israel, who became an unwilling minority with the establishment of the State in 1948. The study focuses on three interrelated issues: the nature and content of the media provided for and by these two minority communities; the way the minority members use domestic and global media in a multimedia and multilingual environment; and the patterns of media usage involved in the construction of hybrid identities that forms the basis for integration within the mainstream society.

Numerous studies address the flow of information between nations and states — especially in the era of globalization — and its contribution to the development of relations across physical borders. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the circumstances under which parties in conflict initiate and build barriers to free flow of information. The conflict in the Middle East may serve as a test bed of controlled disruption of information flow, as covered in Reporting the Middle East: Challenges and Chances. Two parallel types of confrontations appear to take place in the Middle East: the actual physical conflict, and the "war of words," conducted via the media, with each side firing its own verbal missiles. Reporting the Middle East: Challenges and Chances aims to show that the media arena is a key element in understanding the Middle East conflict. Media coverage of Middle Eastern affairs remains critical, if only because of its power in determining sources of information, setting decision makers' agendas, and influencing management of the physical confrontation.