Media and mapping practices in the Middle East and North Africa : producing space

Media and mapping practices in the Middle East and North Africa : producing space /

A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (2009-2010), the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and e...

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Other Authors: Strohmaier, Alena (Editor), Krewani, Angela (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Series:Cities and cultures.
Subjects:
Since 1979
Social media > Political aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Cartography.
cartography (discipline)
Media studies.
Social issues and processes.
Cartography, map-making and projections.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
Cartography
Politics and government
Social media > Political aspects
Technology > Social aspects
Middle East > Politics and government > 1979-
Africa, North > Politics and government.
Moyen-Orient > Politique et gouvernement > 1979-
Middle East
North Africa
Media, Space, Knowledge, Middle East, North Africa
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: About Space as a Media Product
  • Part I Cartographies
  • 1. Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production and Government in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
  • 2. Who Maps Middle Eastern Geographies in the Digital Age? Inequalities in Web 2.0 Cartographies in Israel/Palestine
  • 3. Taking the Battle to Cyberspace : Delineating Borders and Mapping Identities in Western Sahara
  • 4. Wargaming the Middle East: The Evolution of Simulated Battlefields from Chequerboards to Virtual Worlds and Instrumented Artificial Cities
  • Part II Movements
  • 5. Iranian Internet Cinema, a Cinema of Embodied Protest : Imperfect, Amateur, Small, Unauthorized, Global
  • 6. From Amateur Video to New Documentary Formats : Citizen Journalism and a Reconfiguring of Historical Knowledge
  • 7. Cinematic Spaces of 'the Arab Street' : Mohamed Diab's Inverted Road Movie Clash (2016)
  • 8. Body-Space-Relation in Parkour : Street Practices and Visual Representations
  • 9. Mediated Narratives of Syrian Refugees : Mapping Victim-Threat Correlations in Turkish Newspapers
  • Part III Agencies
  • 10. Documenting Social Change and Political Unrest through Mobile Spaces and Locative Media
  • 11. Reframing the Arab Spring : On Data Mining and the Field of Arab Internet Studies
  • 12. Where is Iran? Politics between State and Nation, Inside and Outside the Polity
  • 13. Mapping Genocide? Giving Visual Memory to Oral Culture
  • 14. Reconfiguring the Kurdish Nation on YouTube : Spatial Imaginations, Revolutionary Lyrics, and Colonial Knowledge
  • Index

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