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Chapter 1. Background -- Chapter 2. The Print Media: Unceasing Challenges -- Chapter 3. Radio Broadcasting -- Chapter 4. Television -- Chapter 5. From Folk to Social Media -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Setting the Limits of Political Publications: Legislative Decree No. 74 of April 13, 1953 -- Appendix 2 Licensed Lebanese Political Publications -- Appendix 3 List of Radio Stations -- Appendix 4 The 1994 Audio-Visual Law: Law Number 382 -- Appendix 5 Amendments of the 1962 Publications Law -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Lebanese data on media exposure as related to demographic variables tend to support Lerner's Middle East findings, but some differences emerge.

This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting, cinema and new media. Through detailed discussions of the regulation and economics of these industries, the authors argue that the political, technological and cultural changes on the global media scene have resulted in the reorganization of the Arab media field. They provide striking examples of this through the particular effects on media policies, media technology and the content and genres developed