The digital double bind : change and stasis in the Middle East / Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zayani, Mohamed, 1965- author.

Khalil, Joe F., author.

Series:

Oxford studies in digital politics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in digital politics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Economic aspects--Middle East.

Information technology.

Information technology--Social aspects--Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The Middle East's digital turn has renewed hopes of socio-economic development and political change across the region, but it is also marked by stark contradictions and historical tensions. In this book, Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil contend that the region is caught in a digital double bind in which the same conditions that drive the state, market, and public immersion in the digital also inhibit change and perpetuate stasis. The Digital Double Bind offers a path-breaking analysis of how the Middle East negotiates its relation to the digital and provides a roadmap for a critical engagement with technology and change in the Global South.

Contents:

Cover

Series

The Digital Double Bind

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

PART I. CONJUNCTURES AND DISJUNCTURES

1. The Digital Middle East

2. Reckoning with Change

PART II. ASPIRATIONS AND HINDRANCES

3. The Digital as Infrastructure

4. Technologies of Center and Periphery

5. The Digital as Digitality

PART III. EXPRESSION AND SUPPRESSION

6. The Enticement of Digital Citizenship

7. Collective Voices and Digital Contention

8. Digital Adaptations and Disruptive Power

PART IV. IMITATION AND INNOVATION

9. In Pursuit of the Knowledge Economy

10. Cultural and Creative Industries

11. Emerging Digital Economies

PART V. CONNECTIVITY AND COLLECTIVITY

12. Virtual Lives and Digital Spaces

13. The Demographics of a Connected Culture

14. Collectivity, Identity, and Multivocality

Afterword

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 13, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-750866-9

0-19-750864-2

OCLC:

1410600807