The Naked Blogger of Cairo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Naked Blogger of Cairo write by Marwan M. Kraidy. This book was released on 2016-06-06. The Naked Blogger of Cairo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Times Higher Education Book of the Year Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, The Naked Blogger of Cairo uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings. “A deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisings...Kraidy’s sharp insights and rich descriptions of a new Arab generation’s irrepressible creative urges will amply reward the effort. Reading Kraidy’s accounts of the politically charted cultural gambits of wired Arab youth rekindles some of the seemingly lost spirit of the early days of the Arab uprisings and offers hope for the future.” —Marc Lynch, Washington Post “The Naked Blogger of Cairo is a superb and important work not just for scholars but for anyone who cares about the relationships between art, the body, and revolution.” —Hans Rollman, PopMatters
The Naked Blogger of Cairo
The Naked Blogger of Cairo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Naked Blogger of Cairo write by Marwan M. Kraidy. This book was released on 2016-06-06. The Naked Blogger of Cairo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across the Arab world, protesters voiced dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictatorial regimes. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, Marwan M. Kraidy uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings of 2010–2012.
Reality Television and Arab Politics
Reality Television and Arab Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reality Television and Arab Politics write by Marwan M. Kraidy. This book was released on 2010. Reality Television and Arab Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes how reality television fuelled heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Middle East.
The Next Billion Users
The Next Billion Users - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Next Billion Users write by Payal Arora. This book was released on 2019-02-25. The Next Billion Users available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East—home to most of the world’s internet users—and discovers that what they are doing is not what we imagine. New-media pundits obsess over online privacy and security, cyberbullying, and revenge porn, but do these things really matter in most of the world? The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions about internet use in developing countries are wrong. After immersing herself in factory towns, slums, townships, and favelas, Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. She finds Himalayan teens growing closer by sharing a single computer with common passwords and profiles. In China’s gaming factories, the line between work and leisure disappears. In Riyadh, a group of young women organizes a YouTube fashion show. Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance policies appear to care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew geo-tagging on social media? What drives young Indians to friend “foreign” strangers on Facebook and give “missed calls” to people? The Next Billion Users answers these questions and many more. Through extensive fieldwork, Arora demonstrates that the global poor are far from virtuous utilitarians who mainly go online to study, find jobs, and obtain health information. She reveals habits of use bound to intrigue everyone from casual internet users to developers of global digital platforms to organizations seeking to reach the next billion internet users.
Reporting in the MENA Region
Reporting in the MENA Region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reporting in the MENA Region write by Mohammad Ayish. This book was released on 2015-10-22. Reporting in the MENA Region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this consideration of media practice in the Arab region, Mohammad Ayish and Noha Mellor explore the changing status and function of journalists and journalism given the new realities of reporting in the digital age. The authors draw on focus group discussions, interviews, and social media traffic surveys to examine how social and new media have been integrated into Arab and pan-Arab newsroom operations and harnessed to enhance engagement with an empowered audience. Efforts to engage with audiences in social space, Ayish and Mellor argue, are part of a broad and long-waged information war aimed at winning hearts and minds in the MENA region. Social platforms present excellent opportunities to engage with audiences, but the extent to which such opportunities can be realized are hamstrung by limits on free expression and online access—and vary significantly from country to country and from media channel to media channel. Overall, Reporting in the MENA Region paints a comprehensive and contemporary picture of how today’s Arab journalists perceive and use digital media.
