Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt

Digital Dissidence and Political Change

Courtney C. Radsch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

351 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-49789-5 (ISBN)

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This compelling book explores how Egyptian bloggers used citizen journalism and cyberactivism to chip away at the state’s monopoly on information and recalibrate the power dynamics between an authoritarian regime and its citizens. When the Arab uprisings broke out in early 2011 and ousted entrenched leaders across the region, social media and the Internet were widely credited with playing a role, particularly when the Egyptian government shut down the Internet and mobile phone networks in an attempt to stave off the unrest there. But what these reports missed were the years of grassroots organizing, digital activism, and political awareness-raising that laid the groundwork for this revolutionary change. Radsch argues that Egyptian bloggers created new social movements using blogging and social media, often at significant personal risk, so that less than a decade after the information revolution came to Egypt they successfully mobilized the overthrow of the state and its president.

Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is a researcher and journalist working at the nexus of media, technology, and human rights, and has written widely on these issues in the popular and academic press. She has held positions with The New York Times, Al Arabiya, and UNESCO and is Advocacy Director at the Committee to Protect Journalists.

1. Introduction: Cyberactivism and social movements .- 2. Embodied and virtual ethnography: doing research in the digital age .- 3. The legal regulatory dynamics of the public sphere .- 4. We the people: citizen journalism in the era of social media .- 5. Cyberactivism and egypt’s youth movement .- 6. Bloggers and believers: dynamics of activism and identity in the muslim brotherhood .- 7. Conclusion: Revolution 2.0.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Information Technology and Global Governance
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, color; XV, 351 p. 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Technik
Schlagworte	Blogging • citizen journalism • Cyberactivism • Egypt • information and communication technologies (ICT) • Journalism • Middle East • Muslim Brotherhood • Nora Younis • Political change • Social Media • Social Movements • Technology • Virtual Ethnography • Wael Abbas
ISBN-10	1-137-49789-0 / 1137497890
ISBN-13	978-1-137-49789-5 / 9781137497895
Zustand	Neuware