Leaks, hacks, and scandals : Arab culture in the digital age / Tarek El-Ariss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Ariss, Tarek, Author.

Series:

Translation/transnation.

Translation/Transnation ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Political aspects--Arab countries.

Digital media.

Communication--Political aspects--Arab countries.

Communication.

Arab countries--Politics and government--1945---Data processing.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION

INTRODUCTION

1. On Leaking: From The Arabian Nights to WikiLeaks

2. What Is in My Heart Is on My Twitter

3. The Infinite Scroll

4. Fiction of Scandal Redux

5. Cyber-Raiding

CONCLUSION

NOTES

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691184913

0691184917

OCLC:

1062360690