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Title Media and mapping practices in the Middle East and North Africa : producing space / edited by Alena Strohmaier and Angela Krewani.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
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Series Cities and cultures ; 2405-9730
Cities and cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received new considerable interest as it merged with social media platforms. In an attempt to rearticulate the relationship between media and mapping practices, whilst also addressing new and social media, this interdisciplinary book abides by one relatively clear point: space is a media product. The overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
Note PDF (JSTOR, viewed March 22, 2021).
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
Language English.
Subject Social media -- Political aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Cartography.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
Africa, North -- Politics and government.
Médias sociaux -- Aspect politique.
Cartographie.
Moyen-Orient -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1979-
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
North Africa
Chronological Term Since 1979
Indexed Term Media, Space, Knowledge, Middle East, North Africa
Added Author Strohmaier, Alena, editor.
Krewani, Angela, editor.
Other Form: 94-6298-909-5
ISBN 9789048541508 (electronic bk.)
9048541506 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000068889062

 
    
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