[ecrea] New book: Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations

/Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations/ by Tal 
Samuel-Azran (published: Summer 2016 by Peter Lang Press)

https://www.amazon.com/Intercultural-Communication-Clash-Civilizations-Al-Jazeera/dp/1433122634 
<https://www.amazon.com/Intercultural-Communication-Clash-Civilizations-Al-Jazeera/dp/1433122634>

/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.


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