Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), vi, 189 pp.
ISBN 978-3-658-20700-7
"In times of increasing mediatization and digitalization media play an important role in political and societal transformation processes. The authors of this volume take an actor-centered perspective to shed light on current cases in Arab and Asian countries. They inquire into the ways processes of networking and mobilization evolve in the context of restricted media systems and state-dominated public spheres." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation - a Dialectical and Multi-Scalar Reading / Carola Richter, Anna Antonakis, Cilja Harders, 1
Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation / Merlyna Lim, 9
Self-Mediation Practices of Arab Anarchists / Almut Woller, 35
Power Dynamics in Online Communities: The Palestinian Case / Abir Kopty, 61
Political Communication Chinese Style: The Elite Network in State-Regulated Sina Weibo / Zihao Lin, Andrea Hamm, Susanne Reinhardt, 85
Internet-mediated Communication in Activists' Internal Networks: The Case of Iranian Women's Rights Activism / Mina Naeli, 113
Feminist Networks in Times of Multi-layered Transformations: Perspectives from Tunisia / Anna Antonakis, 137
Social Movements and Social Media in a Post-Revolutionary Political Culture: Constitutional Debates in Egypt / Hanan Badr, 161
Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation / Merlyna Lim, 9
Self-Mediation Practices of Arab Anarchists / Almut Woller, 35
Power Dynamics in Online Communities: The Palestinian Case / Abir Kopty, 61
Political Communication Chinese Style: The Elite Network in State-Regulated Sina Weibo / Zihao Lin, Andrea Hamm, Susanne Reinhardt, 85
Internet-mediated Communication in Activists' Internal Networks: The Case of Iranian Women's Rights Activism / Mina Naeli, 113
Feminist Networks in Times of Multi-layered Transformations: Perspectives from Tunisia / Anna Antonakis, 137
Social Movements and Social Media in a Post-Revolutionary Political Culture: Constitutional Debates in Egypt / Hanan Badr, 161
