Wired CitizenshipYouth Learning and Activism in the Middle East
I wrote a book chapter for the book “Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East”edited by Linda Herrera & Rehab Sakr. Below I share the book description and table of content, to order go to Routledge's website: https://www.routledge.com/Wired-Citizenship-Youth-Learning-and-Activism-in-the-Middle-East/Herrera/p/book/9780415853941
Book Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Wired and Revolutionary in the Middle East and North Africa
Linda Herrera & Rehab Sakr
Section I: Virtual Learning for Critical Citizenship
Chapter 2: Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt
Linda Herrera (republished from Harvard Educational Review)
Chapter 3: Morocco On-Trial: De-colonial Logic and Transformative Practice in Cyberspace
Charis Boutieri
Chapter 4: Children’s Citizenship: Revolution and the Seeds of an Alternative Future in Egypt
Chiara Diana
Chapter 5: Cyberspace in Turkey: A “youthful” space for expressing powerful discontent and suffering
Demet Lüküslü
Chapter 6: Distorting Digital Citizenship: Khaled Said, Facebook, and Egypt’s
Streets
Amro Ali & Dina El-Sharnouby
Section II: Internet, Geopolitics and Redefining the Political
Chapter 7: “Hungry for Freedom” Palestine Youth Activism in the Era of Social Media
Mira Nabulsi
Chapter 8: Opening Networks, Sealing Borders: Youth and Racist Discourse on the Internet
Miranda Christou & Elena Ioannidou
Chapter 9: Computer Intimacy: Digitally-Mediated Democratization of Arab Youth Culture
Catherine Cornet
Chapter 10: “We Are Not All Malala”: Children and Citizenship in the Age of Internet & Drones
Fauzia Rahman
Chapter 11: The Power of Online Networks: Citizenship among Muslim Brotherhood Cyber Youth
Rehab Sakr
Chapter 12: Digital Technology as Surveillance: The Green Movement in Iran
Narges Bajoghli
Source: https://www.routledge.com/Wired-Citizenship-Youth-Learning-and-Activism-in-the-Middle-East/Herrera/p/book/9780415853941
