Visiting scholars

Pr. Tarik Sabry

— Professor —

Tarik Sabry is Professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Westminster, UK, where he is member of the Communication and Media Research Institute, and leader of the Global Media Research Theme. He is co-author with Dr Mansour of Children And Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts: An Ethnographic Perspective (Palgrave 2019) and author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (2010, I.B. Tauris).

Sabry is a leading scholar in the field of Arab cultural studies and has edited several anthologies on the subject of media, culture and society in the Arab region including Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field (IB Tauris 2012), Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice (With Dr Ftouni 2017, Bloomsbury), and Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab World (with Dr Khalil Bloomsbury 2019). Sabry conducted several ethnographic studies exploring the relationship between digital media and the dynamics of hybrid identities in Egypt, Lebanon, the UK and Morocco. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.

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Activities at CAS-UM6P

Program

Audience research, Ethnography and Theories of Communication

Thursday 25 April 2024

Lecture Title: Medium Theory: From McLuhan to Kittler

Synopsis: This lecture critically assesses the medium theory claims that “the medium is the message”.
It explores the work of Innis, McLuhan and Kittler who strongly argue that technologies, beginning with language, television and later the Internet have had major implications on defining what it means to be human in the 20th and 21st Century.

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Lecture of for the Program: “The World seen from Africa: Multiple processes of decolonization”

Lecture Title: De-colonizing media and cultural studies theory

Synopsis: This lecture critiques discourses of ‘knowledge decolonization’ in media studies and argues for a double critique strategy that submits both local and imported media theory to an epistemic manoeuvre of territorialization and de-territorialisation. Giving examples from the contexts of Africa, China and the Middle East, this lecture argues against the facile binaries between East/West, Global North/Global South and enunciates a critical media theory that is both contextual (historically and epistemologically) but also and always open the thought of the other.

Thursday 9 May 2024

Lecture Title: Digital Media Audiences and Everyday Life

Synopsis: This lecture discusses how the concept of everyday life helps us understand digital media audiences. It critiques totalising and culturalist discourses of the everyday and uses different examples from ethnographic research to demonstrate how our everyday lives are inextricably connected to our digital media uses.

Thursday 16 May 2024

Lecture Title: Culture, Representation and the Media

Synopsis: This week we will discuss the relationship between culture and the media.
The first part of the lecture is about culture (and different definitions of it) in, specifically, the English social context and history of ideas. The second part of the lecture refers to approaches to culture of the school of Cultural Studies in England, issues of representation and the communication of specific meanings by the media.

Thursday 23 May 2024

Lecture Title: Foucault, Discipline and Technology

Synopsis: This week we discuss the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, addressing his famous concepts, such as discourse, power, discipline, surveillance in relation to technology. The lecture will link such concepts to our contemporary experience of digital media and social media.