RAD Corporation - Research and Development Corporation: Reconstruction of Islamic Media

Reconstruction of Islamic Media
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Super Administrator on 30 March, 2011 09:20:00
 
Presented to University of Colorado
Abstract: It is undeniable fact that media whether in form of print, radio,
television or internet shapes and arguably, at times, manipulates what people
perceive to be truth or reality. It is such a medium, which adds value to our
knowledge of events at cognitive and social level otherwise; we sustain only to
personal and oriental experience.
In post 9/11 era, the study of comparative work on Islam as marketplace religion
and development of progressive civil society within, has suggested the role of
new media for weakening the supremacy of established power players, such as
state within state and conventional clergy. In conventional clergy, the
confidentiality is an important component of media system, hence
disenfranchising the major population from decision-making process and hurdling
mediation in multi-party environment. It is imperative for Muslim public spheres
to reconstruct Islamic Media by destructing its conventional approach, which
ultimately result in achieving a pluralistic society and have the potential as
enabler of interventions in public exchange while largely evading the control of
the state within state and established conventional religious clergy.
Reconstruction of Islamic Media is decisively divided into two models apparently
distinct and to a certain point intersected 1) Spherical – which is a set of
conventional clergy and descendants with the tendency to either change or
extinct and 2) Exponential – which is a set of new media adapters and
contemporary interpreters of Islam.  This paper argues the importance of above
two models as milestones towards Reconstruction of Islamic Media and evaluates
the possible intersection point where rigid becomes moderate.
In this paper, the implications of Reconstruction of Islamic Media in two Muslim
Educational Institutions has also been successfully evaluated and been discussed
at length that how new media technologies paved their path towards reforms and
developed a sense of working together for the proximate goal of a better human
community.
Keywords: New Media, Islam, Reconstruction, Social Constructivism, Conventional
Clergy, Conventional Mediation, Apathy, Spherical Model, Exponential Model,
Contemporary Interpreter, Madrasah Reform, Marketplace