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| CNN.com: Michael Wolfe on Media |
Commentary: New media, new Muslim voices
By Michael Wolfe
(CNN) -- "The media is dying." It's the title of a Twitter page and a prime topic of conversation among reporters.
Enter a room full of journalists, and you'll hear constant anxious chatter about dying newspapers and massive layoffs at print publications.
Just one example: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently became the first major newspaper to cease its print edition and go exclusively online, after more than 150 years of chronicling the city's history.
As a writer who's been in the game for years -- over 30 and counting -- I'm challenged by all there is to learn and at times overwhelmed as I watch old media gradually head toward extinction. Yet, as a Muslim writer, I am excited by the world of new possibilities. Why? Because I recognize that mastering the online world can unleash a great force to promote understanding among people. [FULL ARTICLE ON CNN.COM]
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| THE BROOKINGS PROJECT ON U.S. RELATIONS WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD |
MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD: Arts and Culture in the U.S.-Muslim World Relationship
Arts and culture, with their capacity to move and persuade audiences and to shape and reveal identities, have untapped potential for increasing understanding, knowledge and respect between the United States and the global Muslim community. Artistic and cultural representations—whether they take the form of a play, a T.V. reality show, a novel, or hip-hop music—challenge traditional stereotypes associated with another culture and humanize “the other.” Thus, investing in arts and culture has the potential to ameliorate the disintegrating relations between the United States and the Muslim world. [Executive Summary] [Entire Report]
by Cynthia P. Schneider and Kristina Nelson
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