Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations

Al-Jazeera and Qatar’s Soft Power

von Tal Samuel-Azran

145 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations argues that Al-Jazeera is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political as well as Islamist goals. This book also maps the Western tendency to reject the network outright despite Al-Jazeera’s billion-dollar investments designed to gain entrance into Western markets; it shows empirically that this rejection is similarly rooted in religious, cultural and national motives. This book asserts that the main outcome of Al-Jazeera’s activities is the promotion of religious and cultural conflicts. The network persistently portrays global events through the prism of conflicting religious and cultural values – propelling a clash of civilizations as per Samuel P. Huntington’s well-known thesis.

• Reihe: Critical Intercultural Communication Studies
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9781433122637
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2016
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York