In recent years, the Middle East's information and communication landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalizing on the opportunities offered by new technologies, the fast pace of digitization, and enhanced connectivity. These changes are far
from turning Middle Eastern nations into network societies, but their impact is significant. The growing adoption of a wide variety of technologies in everyday life has given rise to complex dynamics that beg for a better understanding. Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on the continuing
changes closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are playing out in the social, cultural, political, and economic spheres,
exposing the various disjunctions and discordances that have marked the advent of the digital Middle East.
PART I: DIGITAL CULTURES AND ONLINE VOICES
1. The Changing Nature of Socialization among Arab Youth: Insights from Online Practices, Ilhem Allagui
2. Virtual Worlds, Digital Dreams: Imaginary Spaces of Middle Eastern Video Games, Vít Sisler
3. Mediated Experience in the Egyptian
Revolution, Mark Allen Peterson
4. Women's Voices Online: Making Change in the Middle East, Annabelle Sreberny
5. From the Souk to the Cyber-Souk: Acculturating to e-Commerce in the MENA Region, Norhayati Zakaria
PART II: DIGITAL DISJUNCTIONS AND CYBER-POLITICS
6. Domesticating
Foreign Intellectual Property Laws in the Digital Age: Of Pirates and Qarsana in the GCC, Suzi Mirgani
7. Working For Free: Hidden Social and Political Economies of the Internet in the Middle East, Jon W. Anderson
8. Digital Rights Activism after the Arab Spring: Internet Governance Politics
and the Internet Freedom Proto-Regime, Muzammil M. Hussain
9. Citizenship and Cyber-Politics in Iran, Gholam Khiabany
10. E-Government in the GCC Countries: Promises and Impediments, Damian Radcliffe
There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.
Mohamed Zayani is Professor of Critical Theory at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, where he directs the Media and Politics Program. His works include Networked Publics and Digital Contention (winner of the ICA Global Communication and Social Change Best Book Award)
and Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings.
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
