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Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life
Deborah L. Wheeler
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Description for Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life
Electronic book text. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages, 18 black and white illustrations, 14 black and white tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JKS; JPH; JPQB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474422574
SKU
V9781474422574
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About Deborah L. Wheeler
Deborah L. Wheeler is Associate Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy.
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