The Digital Double Bind

Change and Stasis in the Middle East

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Mohamed Zayani, Joe F. Khalil, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar) Zayani, Mohamed (Professor of Critical Theory, Professor of Critical Theory, Northwestern University in Qatar) Khalil, Joe F. (Associate Professor of Global Media in Residence, Associate Professor of Global Media in Residence

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The digital has emerged as a driving force of change that is reshaping everyday life and affecting nearly every sphere of vital activity. Yet, its impact has been far from uniform. The multifaceted implications of these ongoing shifts differ markedly across the world, demanding a nuanced understanding of specific manifestations and local experiences of the digital.In The Digital Double Bind, Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil explore how the Middle East's digital turn intersects with complex political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics. Drawing on local research and rich case studies, they show how the same forces that brought promises of change through digital transformation have also engendered tensions and contradictions. The authors contend that the ensuing disjunctures have ensnared the region in a double bind, which represents the salient feature of an unfolding digital turn. The same conditions that drive the state, market, and public immersion in the digital also inhibit the region's drive to change. The Digital Double Bind reconsiders the question of technology and change, moving beyond binary formulations and familiar trajectories of the network society. It offers a path-breaking analysis of change and stasis in the Middle East and provides a roadmap for a critical engagement with digitality in the Global South.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-28
Mått235 x 156 x 21 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Digital Politics
Antal sidor316
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197508626
UtmärkelserHonorable Mention, 2025 APSA Information Technology and Politics Best Book Award

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AcknowledgementsCONJUNCTURES AND DISJUNCTIONS1. The Digital Middle East2. Reckoning with ChangeASPIRATIONS AND HINDRANCES3. The Digital as Infrastructure4. Technologies of Center and Periphery5. The Digital as DigitalityEXPRESSION AND SUPPRESSION6. The Enticement of Digital Citizenship7. Collective Voices and Digital Contention8. Digital Adaptations and Disruptive PowerIMITATION AND INNOVATION 9. In Pursuit of the Knowledge Economy10. Cultural and Creative Industries11. Emerging Digital EconomiesCONNECTIVITY AND COLLECTIVITY12. Virtual Lives and Digital Spaces13. The Demographics of a Connected Culture14. Collectivity, Identity and MultivocalityAfterwordNotesReferencesIndex

Essential reading not only for those specializing in the Middle East, but for anyone concerned with the impact of the digital revolution more generally. Never before in history has cutting-edge technology gone straight to all sectors of the world and en masse to the less-privileged as well as the affluent. The consequences in a sub-continent in which tradition and engrained structures of power remain strong are complex indeed, but brilliantly traced out by the authors.