Digital Resistance in the Middle East
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A01=Deborah L. Wheeler
Arab Spring
Author_Deborah L. Wheeler
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Islam
Middle Eastern Politics
political activism
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- ISBN 9781474422550
- Weight: 259g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Deborah L. Wheeler is Associate Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. She is author of Internet in the Middle East: Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in Kuwait (State University of New York Press, 2006).
