Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings
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Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings

Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings

Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon

About this book

This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2022. It examines the shifting narrative around digital activism in the region, from the wake of the 2011 uprisings to the 2019 series of protests coined 'the second wave of the Arab Spring'. It considers how media activists navigate the transition from the emergent to the mainstream in a climate of contentious politics, following the civil mobilisations of the pro-revolutionary youths in Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon. It outlines the particularities of these three different political contexts and media environments, featuring case studies of the Tunisian blogosphere, online campaigning in the Egyptian elections and interviews with social media activists. In light of this empirical evidence, the book offers a critique of the increasing prevalence of a security perspective through which online activism has been viewed and its deleterious effect on digital political engagement in the region.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 From utopia to dystopia
  9. 3 From the emergent to the mainstream: The cycle of discursive power
  10. 4 Emergent media in post-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt: A study of the blogosphere
  11. 5 Mass media campaigning on Twitter: Egypt and the 2012 presidential election
  12. 6 Making sense of the revolution: Debating online over the 2012 Egyptian constitution
  13. 7 Looking back at the revolution: Gathering impressions from the field after the 2013 military coup
  14. 8 The agenda of global security and its implication for independent media
  15. 9 Lebanon: Before, during and after the 2019 revolution
  16. 10 Conclusion: The media as a bridge between the political theory and political praxis of the revolution
  17. Appendices
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Imprint