How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring

The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Nathaniel Greenberg, George Mason University) Greenberg, Nathaniel (Assistant Professor and Head of the Arabic Programme

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On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London published one of the memos with an article headlined ‘Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising'. The effect of the revelation was immediate, helping set in motion an aggressive counter-narrative to the nascent story of the Arab Spring. The article featured a cluster of virulent commentators all pushing the same story: the CIA, George Soros and Hillary Clinton were attempting to take over Egypt. Many of these commentators were trolls, some of whom reappeared in 2016 to help elect Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. This book tells the story of how a proxy-communications war ignited and hijacked the Arab uprisings and how individuals on the ground, on air and online worked to shape history.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-07-03
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt568 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474453950

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Introduction: The Hurricane and the ButterflyChapter One: Information Warfare 2.0: A Methodological CritiqueChapter Two: News of a RevolutionChapter Three: Abu Ayadh: l’homme revoltéChapter Four: Media Wars part I: EgyptChapter Five: Media Wars part II: TunisiaChapter Six: Philosophy and RevolutionChapter Seven: Jihad and RevolutionChapter Eight: The Speculative Fiction of NowEndnotesBibliography

[breaks] valuable ground by offering a detailed exploration of activism, media, and information warfare in relation to the “Arab Spring.” He complicates straightforward accounts of the Internet empowering revolutionaries across the Middle East and bridgesmultiple lines of intellectual inquiry, including narratives and counter-narratives, digital dissent and surveillance, revolutionary and counter-revolutionary currents. Greenberg’s writing, moreover, is engaging.[...] the book is well written and would make an excellent addition to courses on journalism, media, and the “ArabSpring.”