Digital Resistance in the Middle East : New Media Activism in Everyday Life /

Explores how internet use empowers Arab citizensThis book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens' lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wheeler, Deborah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Internet > Political aspects > Middle East.
Social media > Political aspects > Middle East.
Social movements > Middle East.
Islamic Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy.
Internet > Political aspects
Social media > Political aspects
Social movements
Gesellschaft
Sozialer Wandel
Auswirkung
Entwicklung
Medienkonsum
Wirkung
Internet
Empowerment
Social Media
Middle East
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Explores how internet use empowers Arab citizensThis book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens' lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it presents a grass roots look at how new media use fits into the practice of everyday life. It explores why citizens use social media to digitally route around state and other forms of power at work in their lives. This increase in citizen civic engagement, supported by new media use, offers the possibility of a new order of things, from redefining patriarchal power relations at home, to reconfigurations of citizens' relationships with the state, broadly defined. The author argues that new media channels offer pathways to empowerment widely and cheaply in the Middle East.Key FeaturesBased upon ethnographic research of Internet diffusion and impact in several Middle Eastern countries (primarily Kuwait, Jordan and Egypt, but also Tunisia, Morocco, UAE, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia)Collects evidence of new media-enabled change between 1996 and 2014, giving an evolutionary perspective on small acts of norm violation and change in everyday lifeShows how even micro-political and social uses of the internet can disrupt power relationsEncourages a renewed focus on citizen agency, voice and interests in the Middle East despite the persistence of regional authoritarianism.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 p.) : 18 B/W illustrations 14 B/W tables
ISBN:9781474422567
147442256X

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