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Beschreibung

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.

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.

Über den Autor
Laila Shereen Sakr is Assistant Professor of Media Theory and Practice at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: A Posthuman Techno-Feminist Praxis
One: Glitch in the Age of Technoculture
Two: Arab Data Bodies
Three: Digital Activism
Four: Aggregation as Archive
Five: Art Practice
Conclusion: Fix Your Own Democracy
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781503635883
ISBN-10: 1503635880
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sakr, Laila Shereen
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 226 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Laila Shereen Sakr
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.07.2023
Gewicht: 0,281 kg
Artikel-ID: 122448771

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