Digital Resistance in the Middle East : New Media Activism in Everyday Life Hardback
Edited by Deborah Wheeler
Part of the Edinburgh Companions to Literature series
Hardback
Description
This 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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 28 B/W illustrations 11 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/12/2017
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- ISBN:9781474422550
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 28 B/W illustrations 11 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/12/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474422550
