Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Introduction: Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation – a Dialectical and Multi-Scalar Reading

   • Carola Richter, Anna Antonakis, Cilja Harders

   Pages 1-8

3. Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation

   • Merlyna Lim

   Pages 9-34

4. Self-Mediation Practices of Arab Anarchists

   • Almut Woller

   Pages 35-60

5. Power Dynamics in Online Communities: The Palestinian Case

   • Abir Kopty

   Pages 61-84

6. Political Communication Chinese Style: The Elite Network in State-Regulated Sina Weibo

   • Zihao Lin, Andrea Hamm, Susanne Reinhardt

   Pages 85-111

7. Internet-mediated Communication in Activists’ Internal Networks: The Case of Iranian Women’s Rights Activism

   • Mina Naeli

   Pages 113-135

8. Feminist Networks in Times of Multi-layered Transformations: Perspectives from Tunisia

   • Anna Antonakis

   Pages 137-159

9. Social Movements and Social Media in a Post-Revolutionary Political Culture: Constitutional Debates in Egypt

   • Hanan Badr

   Pages 161-186

10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-189

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In times of increasing mediatization and digitalization media play an important role in political and societal transformation processes. The authors of this volume take an actor-centered perspective to shed light on current cases in Arab and Asian countries. They inquire into the ways processes of networking and mobilization evolve in the context of restricted media systems and state-dominated public spheres. It features original research about various social and political actors such as women’s rights activists, public intellectuals, anarchists and Islamists.  

• Media
• Transformation
• communication
• Arab Spring
• Internet
• Changes in Society

• Institut für Publizistik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Carola Richter

• FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Anna Antonakis

• Inst. Für Politikwiss., Freie Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Cilja Harders

Carola Richter is professor for international communication at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
Anna Antonakis is a post-doctoral researcher in Berlin, and working as a political scientist in the fields of gender, media and security.
Cilja Harders is professor of political sciences and director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Freie Universität Berlin.

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