Some recent articles, chapters, papers on IT, New Media & the Middle East
Blogging, Networked Publics, and the Politics of Communication: Another Free-Speech Panacea for the Middle East? Jon W. Anderson. Keynote address for a conference on “New Horizons: Obama and the Global Media.” Department of Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies, and School of Journalism. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ – 23 January 2009.
Liberating Shari'a, Jon W. Anderson. The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere. Social Science Research Council, 21 June 2008.
Transnational Digital Communication in Islamic Cyberspace, Jon W. Anderson. Workshop: Language & Power in Transnational Networks – Real & Virtual, University of Copenhagen Graduate School of Regional Studies. Denmark. 26-27 May 2008.
Mediatized Islam, Cyberspace and the Public Sphere, Jon W. Anderson. Conference on “The Challenges of Integrating Islam: Comparative Experiences of Europe and the Middle East.” Institute for Middle East Studies, George Washington University. 14 February 2008.
New Media and New Publics in the Arab World, Jon W. Anderson & Dale F. Eickelman. Nouveaux medias dans le monde arab: Colloque organisé par le GREMMO (Groupe de recherches et d’études sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient). Université Lyon, France. 8-9 février 2008.
Between Freedom and Coercion: Inside Internet Implantation in the Middle East, Jon W. Anderson. Conference on Media and Image Change of the Middle East Post 9/11. School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University (UK). 20-21 September 2007.
Reformatting the Internet in the Middle East, Jon W. Anderson. Conference on Science, Technology & Entrepreneurship in the Muslim World, Lund University (Sweden). 5-8 September 2007.
Transnational Civil Society, Institution-building and IT: Reflections from the Middle East, Jon W. Anderson. CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East (June 2007).
Network Modalities Facilitating the Movement of People and Ideas, Jon W. Anderson. Conference on Shared Values, Shared Fate: Muslim Identity in the Global Age. Center for Strategic & International Studies. Washington, DC. 30 May 2007.
Globalization, Democracy, the Internet and Arabia, Jon W. Anderson. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. 15 April 2007.
The Post-Democratic Governmentality of Networked Societies, Jodi Dean, Jon W. Anderson and Geert Lovink. Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society, edited by Jodi Dean, Jon W. Anderson and Geert Lovink. New York: Routledge, 2006. pp. xv-xxix.
Convergence: Next Phase of the Information Revolution, Jon W. Anderson. Workshop on New Media and the Reconstruction of Popular Culture in the Arab World. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. 17 May 2006.
“Wiring Up: The Internet Difference for Muslim Networks.“ In From: Muslim Networks: Hajj to Hip-Hop, edited by miriam cooke & Bruce B. Lawrence. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 252-63
New Media Infrastructures, Tools & Shaping the Public Sphere, Jon W. Anderson. Conference on New Media in the Middle East. Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. 31 October 31 – 1 November 2005.
Private Discourse to Public Sphere: Formation of Islamic Identities Online, Jon W. Anderson. Conference on Topics in Terrorism, Atlantic Council of the United States. Budapest, 5-6 May 2005.
Des communautés virtuelles? Vers une théorie 'techno-pratique' d'Internet dans le monde Arabe, Jon W. Anderson. Maghreb-Machrek 178: 45-58, Hiver 2003-2004.
Studying IT in the Middle East: Some methodological considerations, Jon W. Anderson. Workshop on La societe d’information au Proche Oriente: du local au global. GREMMO – IFPO – CEMAM, Amman, Jordan, 25-26 Septembre 2004.
Technological Mediation and the Emergence of Transnational Muslim Publics, Jon W. Anderson & Yves Gonzalez-Quijano. Public Islam and the Common Good, edited by Armando Salvatore & Dale F. Eickelman. Leiden: EJ Brill, 2004, pp. 53-71.
Remodeling the Transnational Space of Islam: Diaspora Priorities, Jon W. Anderson. Conference on Global Mobility, Media and Minority Culture. Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University. 23-25 October, 2003.
New Media, New Publics: Reconfiguring the Public Sphere of Islam, Jon W. Anderson Social Research 70(3), Fall 2003.
The Internet and Islam's New Interpreters, IN New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, edited by Dale F. Eickelman & Jon W. Anderson. Second edition [orig., 1999] Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. pp. 45-60.
Redefining Muslim Publics, IN New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, edited by Dale F. Eickelman & Jon W. Anderson. Second edition [orig., 1999] Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. pp. 1-18.
Impacts of New Media on Identity in Muslim Societies: The Arab Gulf Countries, Jon W. Anderson. Symposium on Globalization & Identity in Muslim Societies, US Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 12 September 2000.
Producers and Middle East Internet Technology: Getting beyond "Impacts", Jon W. Anderson. Middle East Journal 54(3): , Summer 2000.
Technology, Media, and the Next Generation in the Middle East, Jon W. Anderson. Paper delivered at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University. 28 September 1999.Media Convergence & Its Consequences, Jon W. Anderson & Dale F. Eickelman. Middle East Insight XIV(2): 59-61, March-April 1999.
The Middle East on the Internet, Jon W. Anderson. Middle East Executive Reports 20(12), December 1997.
Globalizing Politics & Religion in the Muslim World, Jon W. Anderson. Journal of Electronic Publishing 3(1), September 1997.Positioning Islam in the Global Information Infrastructure, Jon W. Anderson. "Technologies and Contexts of Muslim Cultural Expression," Annual Conference, American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies. Villanova University, 2-3 May 1997.
Cybernauts of the Arab Diaspora, Jon W. Anderson. Couch-Stone Symposium on Postmodern Culture, Global Capitalism and Democratic Action. University of Maryland, 10-12 April 1997.Interpretation in Middle East Ethnography, Jon W. Anderson. American Ethnologist 24(1): 203-07, 1997.
Middle East and North Africa, Jon W. Anderson. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, edited by David Levinson & Melvin Ember, vol. 3, pp. 287-91, 1966.
Middle East Diasporas on the Internet, Jon W. Anderson. INET'96, Proceedings of the Internet Society Annual Meeting. Montréal, 25-28 June 1996.
Conspiracy Theories, Premature Entextualization & Popular Poltical Analysis, Jon W. Anderson. Arab Studies Journal IV(1), Spring 1996.'Cybarites', Knowledge Workers and New Creoles on the Information Superhighway, Jon W. Anderson. Anthropology Today 11(4): 13-15, August 1995.
Middle East Studies On-Line, Jon W. Anderson. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 29:161-169, December 1995.
Some On Afghanistan
"Tribe & community among Ghilzai Pashtun," Anthropos 70: 575‑601, 1975.
"There are no Khans anymore: economic development & social change in tribal Afghanistan," The Middle East Journal 32: 167‑183, 1978.
"Introduction," in Ethnic Processes & Intergroup Relations in Contemporary Afghanistan. edited by Jon W. Anderson & Richard F. Strand. New York: The Asia Society, 1978. pp. 1-8.
"Social structure & the veil: comportment & the composition of interaction in Afghanistan," Anthropos 77: 397‑420, 1982.
"Cousin marriage in context: constructing social relations in Afghanistan," Folk 24/25: 7‑28, 1982.
"Khan and khel: dialectics of Pakhtun tribalism." In The Conflict of Tribe & State in Iran & Afghanistan, 1800‑1980, Richard Tapper, ed. London: Croom Helm. pp. 119-149, 1983.
"How Afghans define themselves in relation to Islam." In Revolutions & Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives, M. Nazif Shahrani & Robert L. Canfield, eds. Berkeley: Institute for International Studies, 1984.
"Sentimental ambivalence and the exegesis of 'self' in Afghanistan," Anthropological Quarterly 58: 203‑211, 1985.
"Popular mythologies and subtle theologies: the phenomenology of Muslim identity in Afghanistan." In Discourse and the Social Life of Meaning, Phyllis Chock & June Wyman, eds. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.
"Ethnic dilemmas in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan." In Soviet‑American Relations with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, Hafeez Malik, ed. London: Macmillan. pp. 70-89, 1987.
"Poetics & politics in ethnographic texts: A view from the colonial ethnography of Afghanistan." In Writing the Social Text: Poetics & Politics in Social Science Discourse, Richard H. Brown, ed. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991 Reprinted as: "Política y poética en el texto etnográfico: Acera de la etnografía colonial británica,” Revista Colombiana de Sociologia, Nueva Serie, 2(1): 69-89, 1993.
"Honor," "Shame," "Loya Jirga." In Encyclopedia of Modern Islam, John Esposito, ed. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
"Pakhtunwali" and "`Aql & Nafs." In South Asian Folklore Encyclopedia, edited by Peter Claus & Margaret Mills. New York & London: Routledge, 2003.
Some Others
"Conjuring with Ibn Khaldun: from an anthropological point of view," Journal of Asian and African Studies 18: 263‑273, 1983.
"Reinventing the shape of meaning: ambiguities in the ontology of ethnography," Anthropological Quarterly 59: 64-74, 1986.
"Rhetorical Objectivity." In Postmodern Representations: Truth, Power & Mimesis in the Human Sciences and Public Culture, Richard Brown, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
"The Internet.” In Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture, edited by. Gary W. McDonogh, Robert Gregg & Cindy H. Wong. London: Routledge, 200l. pp. 378-380.“Bible Belt.” In Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture, edited by Gary W. McDonogh, Robert Gregg & Cindy H. Wong.London: Routledge, 200l. pp. 77-78.
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