ISBN:
9780691184913
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Translation/Transnation 40
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als El-Ariss, Tarek Leaks, hacks, and scandals
DDC:
320.917/4927
Keywords:
Social media Political aspects
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Leaks (Disclosure of information)
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Internet Political aspects
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Political activists History 21st century
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Digital media Political aspects
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Communication Political aspects
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Medienkonsum
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Internet
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Social Media
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Twitter
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Politische Mobilisierung
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Politisches Bewusstsein
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Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein
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Jugend
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Politik
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Medien
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Communication.
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Digital media.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
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Arabische Staaten
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Arab activists
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Arab authors
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Arab culture
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Arab modernity
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Arab popular culture
;
Arab world
;
Arab writers
;
Badriah Albeshr
;
Egypt
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Egyptian activist
;
Gulf
;
Internet
;
Khaled Alkhamissi
;
Mujtahidd
;
Rajaa Alsanea
;
Saudi royal family
;
The Arabian Nights
;
Twitter
;
Wael Abbas
;
WikiLeaks
;
activism
;
activist
;
activists
;
apostasy
;
authoritarian regimes
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avatar
;
bloggers
;
bodily function
;
civility
;
confrontation
;
Arabische Staaten
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Kultur
;
Digital Humanities
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WikiLeaks
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Whistleblowing
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Twitter
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Geschichte 2000-2018
Abstract:
How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek El-Ariss situates these critiques of power within a pervasive culture of scandal and leaks and shows how cultural production and political change in the contemporary Arab world are enabled by digital technology yet emerge from traditional cultural models.Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, El-Ariss connects WikiLeaks to The Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective scene-making of Arab popular culture. He shifts the epistemological and historical frameworks from the postcolonial condition to the digital condition and shows how new media challenge the novel as the traditional vehicle for political consciousness and intellectual debate.Theorizing the rise of "the leaking subject" who reveals, contests, and writes through chaotic yet highly political means, El-Ariss investigates the digital consciousness, virality, and affective forms of knowledge that jolt and inform the public and that draw readers in to the unfolding fiction of scandal.Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals maps the changing landscape of Arab modernity, or Nahda, in the digital age and traces how concepts such as the nation, community, power, the intellectual, the author, and the novel are hacked and recoded through new modes of confrontation, circulation, and dissent.
Note:
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780691184913
