New Media Discourses, Culture and Politics after the Arab Spring: Case Studies from Egypt and Beyond

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This book investigates the interplay between media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs quest for more stable and democratic governance models in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates, specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors systematically explore and critique these online communities and spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies, largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, and a computational assessment of online engagement, among other topics.

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"This book touches upon significant topics in Egypt and other Arab countries a decade after the uprisings. The diverse array of timely topics are investigated using a combination of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, ultimately demonstrating the notable changes that have taken place in the cultural, social, economic, and political fabric in different Arab states. The book offers a comprehensive discourse analysis on several issues that should be of interest to professionals and academics as well as scholars in the field media and communication." * Rasha Allam, The American University in Cairo, Egypt *
"On the 10th anniversary of the Arab uprisings, Eid Mohamed and Aziz Douai have curated a unique and perceptive collection of essays about these movements, their compositions, discourses, representations, and efficacies. Using compelling, nuanced, and insightful examinations of specific new media contexts and platforms, the Egyptian revolution and other mobilizations in the region are understood on their own political and cultural terms. This is a volume that, in its totality, resists the temptation of forcing the uprisings into narrow equivalency. Instead, it comfortably accepts the messy contradictions and pervasive incongruences of the Arab Spring, leaving the reader with the kind of open-ended uncertainties that are characteristic of revolutions a decade since their eruption." * Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser University, Canada *

Author Bio

Aziz Douai is Professor of Journalism at the University of Regina, Canada. Eid Mohamed is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar