New media discourses, culture and politics after the Arab Spring : case studies from Egypt and beyond

"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"-- Provided by publisher Cover Contents Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1 The ‘Arab Spring’ waves: Media, culture and social protest Eid Mohamed and Aziz Douai Chapter 2 Modes of countering gender violence: Assessing the effectiveness of ‘the Nude Revolution’ in the Mena region Magdalena Karolak Chapter 3 Do Egyptians still care about the Arab Spring? Computational cultural assessment of online and offline activism Emad Mohamed and Eid Mohamed Chapter 4 Cyberactivism and the (re)framing of identities and revolutionary narratives: A tale of two Egyptian political actors Sahar Khamis and Ehab H. Gomaa Chapter 5 E-sheikhs: How online Islamic discourse can reproduce authoritarian power structures Dina Abdel-Mageed and Grant Bollmer Chapter 6 The revolution of pronouns: Shifts of power and resistance in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Mustafa Menshawy Chapter 7 Hybridity and online public spheres after the Arab Spring: The case of Raseef22 Azza El Masri Chapter 8 Promoting Libyan nationalism concepts via Facebook: A critical discourse analysis Safa Elnaili Chapter 9 Marriage and politics in Hanan Abdallah’s documentary In the Shadow of a Man Touria Khannous Chapter 10 #TechRevolt in the Arab Gulf: Gendered grassroots resistance or state violence? Hasnaa Mokhtar Index