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Arabic Glitch : Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives / Laila Shereen Sakr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sakr, Laila Shereen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Online social networks--Political aspects--Arab countries.
- Online social networks.
- Social media--Political aspects--Arab countries.
- Social media.
- Communication in politics--Arab countries.
- Communication in politics.
- Political participation--Arab countries.
- Political participation.
- Social movements--Arab countries.
- Social movements.
- Arab Spring, 2010-.
- Arab countries--Politics and government--21st century.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics--one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements. Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital practice in form, method, and content, Laila Shereen Sakr formulates a media theory that advances the concept of the glitch as a disruptive media affordance. She employs data analytics to analyze tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture of social media, and performs the results under the guise of the Arabic-speaking cyborg VJ Um Amel. Playing with multiple voices that span across the virtual and the real, Sakr argues that there is no longer a divide between the virtual and embodied: both bodies and data are physically, socially, and energetically actual. Are we cyborgs or citizens--or both? This book teaches us how a region under transformation became a vanguard for new thinking about digital systems: the records they keep, the lives they impact, and how to create change from within"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a posthuman techno-feminist praxis
- Glitch in the age of technoculture
- Arab data bodies
- Digital activism
- Aggregation as archive
- Art practice
- Conclusion : fix your own democracy.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781503635890
- 1503635899
- OCLC:
- 1380465625
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