Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Richter, Carola (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Antonakis, Anna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Harders, Cilja (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications,
• Subjects: Communication.; Cultural policy.; Comparative politics.; Communication Studies.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Comparative Politics.

In times of increasing mediatization and digitalization media play an important role in political and societal transformation processes. The authors of this volume take an actor-centered perspective to shed light on current cases in Arab and Asian countries. They inquire into the ways processes of n...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation
• Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation
• Self-Mediation Practices of Arab Anarchists.-Power Dynamics in Online Communities: The Palestinian Case
• Political Communication Chinese Style
• Internet-mediated Communication in Activists Internal Networks: The Case of Iranian Women´s Right Activism
• Feminist Networks in Times of Multi-layered Transformations: Perspectives from Tunesia
• Social Movements and Social mediea in a Post-Revolutionary Political Culture: Constituional Debates in Egypt.