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The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 134 pp.
"As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the internet have enabled sharing and archiving in an unprecedented fashion. Yet, at the same time,
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Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria
London: Pluto Press (2018), xiv, 251 pp.
"This ethnography uses the Syrian case to reflect more broadly on how the networked age reshapes contemporary warfare and impacts on the enactment of violence through images and on images. In stark contrast to the techno-utopias celebrating digital democracy and participatory cultures, Donatella Del
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Arab Media Moguls
London; New York: Tauris (2015), xiii, 233 pp.
"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r
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Making Real-Time Drama: The Political Economy of Cultural Production in Syria’s Uprising
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2014), 26 pp.
"In CARGC Paper 2, Della Ratta explored how one 2013 Syrian television serial, Wilada min al-Khasira [Birth from the Waist] responded in real time to unfolding events of the Syrian revolution. She argued that the serial offers a living site for scholarly reflection on how cultural production and the
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