Media and mapping practices in the Middle East and North Africa : pProducing space / edited by Alena Strohmaier and Angela Krewani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strohmaier, Alena, editor.

Krewani, Angela, editor.

Series:

Cities and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Social aspects--Africa, North.

Cartography.

Social aspects.

North Africa.

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2021]

Summary:

A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (2009-2010), the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received new considerable interest as it merged with social media platforms. In an attempt to rearticulate the relationship between media and mapping practices, whilst also addressing new and social media, this interdisciplinary book abides by one relatively clear point: space is a media product. The overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Cartographies

1. Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production And Government In The Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire / Nour Nicole Dados

2. Who Maps Middle Eastern Geographies In The Digital Age? Inequalities In Web 2.0 Cartographies In Israel/Palestine / Georg Glasze

3. Taking The Battle To Cyberspace: Delineating Borders And Mapping Identities In Western Sahara / Frederikvon Reumont

4. Wargaming The Middle East: The Evolution Of Simulated Battlefields From Chequerboards To Virtual Worlds And Instrumented Artificial Cities / Janina Schupp

pt. II Movements

5. Iranian Internet Cinema, A Cinema Of Embodied Protest: Imperfect, Amateur, Small, Unauthorized, Global / Hamid Naficy

6. From Amateur Video To New Documentary Formats: Citizen Journalism And A Reconfiguring Of Historical Knowledge / Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans

7. Cinematic Spaces Of `The Arab Street': Mohamed Diab's Inverted Road Movie Clash (2016) / Alena Strohmaier

8. Body-Space-Relation In Parkour: Street Practices And Visual Representations / Ines Braune

9. Mediated Narratives Of Syrian Refugees: Mapping Victim-Threat Correlations In Turkish Newspapers / Ayga Tunc Cox

pt. III Agencies

10. Documenting Social Change And Political Unrest Through Mobile Spaces And Locative Media / Angela Krewani

11. Reframing The Arab Spring: On Data Mining And The Field Of Arab Internet Studies / Laila Shereen Sakr

12. Where Is Iran? Politics Between State And Nation, Inside And Outside The Polity / Gholam Khiabany

13. Mapping Genocide? Giving Visual Memory To Oral Culture / Sebastian Maisel

14. Reconfiguring The Kurdish Nation On Youtube: Spatial Imaginations, Revolutionary Lyrics, And Colonial Knowledge / Andrea Fischer-Tahir.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789462989092

9462989095

OCLC:

1225907752