New media and revolution : resistance and dissent in pre-uprising Syria / Billie Jeanne Brownlee.

By:

Brownlee, Billie Jeanne, 1984- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in protest, power, and resistance ; 1Publication details: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780228002307

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

P95 .N496 2020

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Contents:

From Virtual to Tangible Civic Mobilisation -- 'Change within Continuity': The Lion Cub's Reforms -- Empowering Publics: Satellite TV and the Internet -- Media Development and Foreign Aid Assistance -- The Syrian Media Landscape after 2011.

Subject: "The Arab Spring did not arise out of nowhere. It was the physical manifestation of more than a decade of new media diffusion, use, and experimentation that empowered ordinary people during their everyday lives. In this book, Billie Jeanne Brownlee offers a refreshing insight into the way new media can facilitate a culture of resistance and dissent in authoritarian states. Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria's social mobilisation but as a shift from online to offline contestation, and from localised and hidden practices of digital dissent to tangible mass street protests. Brownlee goes beyond the common dichotomy that frames new media as either a deus ex machina or a means of expression to demonstrate that, in Syria, media was a nontraditional institution that enabled resistance to digitally manifest and gestate below, within, and parallel to formal institutions of power. To refute the idea that the population of Syria was largely apathetic and apolitical prior to the uprising, Brownlee explains that social media and technology created camouflaged geographies and spaces where individuals could protest without being detected. Challenging the myth of authoritarian stability, New Media and Revolution uncovers the dynamics of grassroots resistance blossoming under the radar of ordinary politics."--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

New Media, New Battlefields for New Revolutions -- From Virtual to Tangible Civic Mobilisation -- 'Change within Continuity': The Lion Cub's Reforms -- Empowering Publics: Satellite TV and the Internet -- Media Development and Foreign Aid Assistance -- The Syrian Media Landscape after 2011.

"The Arab Spring did not arise out of nowhere. It was the physical manifestation of more than a decade of new media diffusion, use, and experimentation that empowered ordinary people during their everyday lives. In this book, Billie Jeanne Brownlee offers a refreshing insight into the way new media can facilitate a culture of resistance and dissent in authoritarian states. Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria's social mobilisation but as a shift from online to offline contestation, and from localised and hidden practices of digital dissent to tangible mass street protests. Brownlee goes beyond the common dichotomy that frames new media as either a deus ex machina or a means of expression to demonstrate that, in Syria, media was a nontraditional institution that enabled resistance to digitally manifest and gestate below, within, and parallel to formal institutions of power. To refute the idea that the population of Syria was largely apathetic and apolitical prior to the uprising, Brownlee explains that social media and technology created camouflaged geographies and spaces where individuals could protest without being detected. Challenging the myth of authoritarian stability, New Media and Revolution uncovers the dynamics of grassroots resistance blossoming under the radar of ordinary politics."--

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