Doctoral Dissertation Research: Islamic Satellite Channels and the Ethics of Entertainment

博士论文研究：伊斯兰卫星频道和娱乐伦理

• 批准号: 1026572
• 负责人: Michael Gilsenan
• 金额: $ 0.97万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1026572&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Islamic; Satellite

New York University doctoral student Yasmin Moll, under the supervision of Dr. Michael Gilsenan, will undertake research on transnational Islamic media. The goal is to better undersand the role of televisual media in contemporary religious understandings and practices. The research will be focused on the production of Islamic satellite television in Egypt. The first privately-funded Islamic television channel, Iqraa, was established in Egypt in 1998. Since then, the Egyptian satellite scene has seen the rise of several other Islamic "televangelical" channels boasting a regional viewership numbering in the tens of millions. The researcher will collect data on two Islamic satellite channels headquartered in Egypt. She will use participant-observation, interviews, life-history collection, focus groups and textual analysis to compile information on how program producers understand, produce and circulate what they call "Islamically-correct entertainment," and how they imagine a transnational audience of pious Muslims. This research is important because by examining the micro-practices of broadcast production by devout Muslim media-makers, it will illuminate the relationship between such media and a variety of domains, both religious and non-religious. This will help to develop social scientific understanding of the variety of roles played by transnational media. It also may contribute to public policy debates on contemporary Islam. Funding this research also supports the education of a social scientist.

纽约大学博士生亚斯明·莫尔（Yasmin Moll）将在迈克尔·吉尔森南博士的指导下开展跨国伊斯兰媒体研究。目标是更好地理解电视媒体在当代宗教理解和实践中的作用。该研究将集中于埃及伊斯兰卫星电视的制作。第一个私人资助的伊斯兰电视频道 Iqraa 于 1998 年在埃及成立。从那时起，埃及卫星电视频道见证了其他几个伊斯兰“电视福音派”频道的崛起，这些频道的地区收视率已达数千万。 研究人员将收集总部位于埃及的两个伊斯兰卫星频道的数据。她将利用参与者观察、访谈、生活史收集、焦点小组和文本分析来汇编有关节目制作人如何理解、制作和传播他们所谓的“伊斯兰正确娱乐”的信息，以及他们如何想象虔诚的穆斯林跨国观众。这项研究很重要，因为通过研究虔诚的穆斯林媒体制作者广播制作的微观实践，它将阐明此类媒体与各种宗教和非宗教领域之间的关系。这将有助于发展对跨国媒体所扮演的各种角色的社会科学理解。它还可能有助于有关当代伊斯兰教的公共政策辩论。资助这项研究还支持社会科学家的教育。