Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life

by Deborah L Wheeler and Deborah L. Wheeler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474422578
• ISBN13: 9781474422574
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"