The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East Mohamed Zayani

The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197508633,0197508634

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197508634
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197508633
• Author(s): Mohamed Zayani, Joe F. Khalil

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.

Table contents:

1. The Digital Middle East
2. Reckoning with Change
ASPIRATIONS AND HINDRANCES
3. The Digital as Infrastructure
4. Technologies of Center and Periphery
5. The Digital as Digitality
EXPRESSION AND SUPPRESSION
6. The Enticement of Digital Citizenship
7. Collective Voices and Digital Contention
8. Digital Adaptations and Disruptive Power
IMITATION AND INNOVATION
9. In Pursuit of the Knowledge Economy
10. Cultural and Creative Industries
11. Emerging Digital Economies
CONNECTIVITY AND COLLECTIVITY
12. Virtual Lives and Digital Spaces
13. The Demographics of a Connected Culture
14. Collectivity, Identity and Multivocality
Afterword
Notes
References
Index

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