The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring

by Peter Snowdon

A major intervention in media studies theorizes the politics and aesthetics of internet video

The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet. In The People Are Not An Image, Snowdon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788733169
• ISBN13: 9781788733168
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"