New Media and Revolution
New Media and Revolution The Arab Spring did not arise out of nowhere. In this book, Billie Jeanne Brownlee offers a refreshing insight into the way new media can facilitate a culture of resistance…
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New Media and Revolution
The Arab Spring did not arise out of nowhere. 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. 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.
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. 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. Brownlee goes beyond the common dichotomy that frames new media as either a deus ex machina or a means of
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