Deborah L. Wheeler (United States Naval Academ Associate Professor

Digital Resistance in the Middle East

New Media Activism in Everyday Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizensâ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781474422550
• ISBN-10: 1474422551
• Artikelnr.: 47878069

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Brief History of Internet Diffusion and Impact in the Middle
East
Chapter 2. IT 4 Regime Change: Networking around the State in Egypt
Chapter 3. No More Red Lines: Networking around the state in Jordan
Chapter 4. Hurry Up and Wait: Oppositional Compliance and Networking around
the State in Kuwait
Chapter 5. The Micro-Demise of Authoritarianism in the Middle East:
Networking around the State in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 6. Fear the State: Repression and the Risks of Resistance in the
Middle East
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index