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Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt - Courtney C. Radsch

Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt

Digital Dissidence and Political Change
Buch | Softcover
351 Seiten
2017 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-69809-7 (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.

PrefaceList of figures 1. Introduction: Cyberactivism and social movements 2. Embodied and virtual ethnography: doing research in the digital age3. The legal regulatory dynamics of the public sphere4. We the people: citizen journalism in the era of social media5. Cyberactivism and egypt's youth movement6. Bloggers and believers: dynamics of activism and identity in the muslim brotherhood7. Conclusion: Revolution 2.0Formal interviews conductedReferences

Erscheinungsdatum
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
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-349-69809-1 / 1349698091
ISBN-13 978-1-349-69809-7 / 9781349698097
Zustand Neuware
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