Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East

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Wired Citizenship examines the evolving patterns of youth learning and activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In today’s digital age, in which formal schooling often competes with the peer-driven outlets provided by social media, youth all over the globe have forged new models of civic engagement, rewriting the script of what it means to live in a democratic society. As a result, state-society relationships have shifted―never more clearly than in the MENA region, where recent uprisings were spurred by the mobilization of tech-savvy and politicized youth. Combining original research with a thorough exploration of theories of democracy, communications, and critical pedagogy, this edited collection describes how youth are performing citizenship, innovating systems of learning, and re-imagining the practices of activism in the information age. Recent case studies illustrate the context-specific effects of these revolutionary new forms of learning and social engagement in the MENA region. Dedication Contents Series Editor Introduction • Greg Dimitriadis Foreword 1 Introduction: Wired and Revolutionary in the Middle East and North Africa • Linda Herrera and Rehab Sakr Section I: Virtual Learning for Critical Citizenship 2 Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt • Linda Herrera 3 Morocco On-Trial: De-Colonial Logic and Transformative Practice in Cyberspace • Charis Boutieri 4 Children’s Citizenship: Revolution and the Seeds of an Alternative Future in Egypt • Chiara Diana 5 Cyberspace in Turkey: A “Youthful” Space for Expressing Powerful Discontent and Suffering • Demet Lüküslü 6 Distorting Digital Citizenship: Khaled Said, Facebook, and Egypt’s Streets • Amro Ali and Dina El-Sharnouby Section II: Internet, Geopolitics, and Redefining the Political 7 “Hungry for Freedom”: Palestine Youth Activism in the Era of Social Media • Mira Nabulsi 8 Opening Networks, Sealing Borders: Youth and Racist Discourse on the Internet • Miranda Christou and Elena Ioannidou 9 Computer Intimacy: Digitally Mediated Democratization of Arab Youth Culture • Catherine Cornet 10 “We are not all Malala”: Children and Citizenship inthe Age of Internet and Drones • Fauzia Rahman 11 The Power of Online Networks: Citizenship among Muslim Brotherhood Cyber Youth • Rehab Sakr 12 Digital Technology as Surveillance: The Green Movement in Iran • Narges Bajoghli List of Contributors Index