Table of Contents
Prologue: Online Activism and the Arab Uprisings: Focus on the Tunisian
Introduction
Part I: On Media Activism and Political Involvement
1. Revisiting Cyberactivism Six Years after the Arab Spring: Potentials, Limitations and Future Prospects
2. Constructing an Alternative Public Sphere: Social Media & Their Cultural Meaning in Iran
3. You’ve Come a Long Way Baby: Personal/Political Empowerment in Kuwaiti/Arab Women’s New Media Practices
Part II: On Governmental and non-Governmental Media Organisations
4. Location & Media Production in the Middle East: A Case Study of Media Cities
5. How to Prevent a Mobilization: Assad & the Electronic War
6. Spectacles of Terror: Media and the Cultural Production of Terrorism
Part III: Media, Culture and Language in the Middle East
7. Winning Hearts and Minds through Soft Power: The Case of Turkish Soap Operas in the Middle East
8. Locating Emirati Filmmaking within Globalizing Media Ecologies
9. Protest Poetry On- and Offline: Trans-Regional Interactions in the Arabian Gulf: An Example from Bahrain
10. Arabic in a Time of Revolution: Sociolinguistic Notes from Egypt