Digital resistance in the Middle East : : new media activism in everyday life / / Deborah L. Wheeler.
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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 194 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018). |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES AND TABLES
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF INTERNET DIFFUSION AND IMPACT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- 2 IT 4 REGIME CHANGE: NETWORKING AROUND THE STATE IN EGYPT
- 3 NO MORE RED LINES: NETWORKING AROUND THE STATE IN JORDAN
- 4 HURRY UP AND WAIT: OPPOSITIONAL COMPLIANCE AND NETWORKING AROUND THE STATE IN KUWAIT
- 5 THE MICRO-DEMISE OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WORKING AROUND THE STATE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
- 6 FEAR THE STATE: REPRESSION AND THE RISKS OF RESISTANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX: INTERNET USER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX