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New Media and Revolution

Billie Jeanne Brownlee
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      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Billie Jeanne Brownlee EAN: 9780228000891 COUNTRY: Canada PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McGill-Queen's University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-07-16 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Syria, Media studies, Politics and government

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      Billie Jeanne Brownlee is a lecturer in Middle East politics at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Billie Jeanne Brownlee EAN: 9780228000891 COUNTRY: Canada PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McGill-Queen's University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-07-16 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Syria, Media studies, Politics and government

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      Billie Jeanne Brownlee is a lecturer in Middle East politics at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.

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