Pensée 2: New Media and Old Agendas: The Internet in the Middle East and Middle Eastern Studies

Armbrust, Walter

doi:10.1017/s0020743807071048

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“…Observing the systems transformations to more democratic after 2000, especially previously mentioned colour revolutions, Arab Spring and protest in Ukraine, many scholars recognised both the importance and the ambiguity of new technologies and new media (e.g. Armbrust, 2007;Cottle, 2011;Etling, Roberts, Faris, 2014;Kyriakopoulou, 2011;Lynch, 2015;Lynch et al, 2016;Olorunnisola, Martin, 2013;Onuch, 2015;Robertson, 2013;Tsetsura, 2015).…”

Section: 'Old' and 'New' Media For Democratisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wsparcie nowych mediów na Ukrainie w ramach polskiego programu pomocy rozwojowej

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Pospieszna

2017

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After the relatively successful system transformation, some young democratic countries from Central and Eastern Europe which used to receive democratic aid in the 1980s and 90s have engaged as new donors in assisting pro-democratic changes in other post-communist countries. The donor-recipient relations between two post-communist countries can be observed on the example of the development of cooperation between Poland and Ukraine. This paper deals with Polish assistance to new media in Ukraine in from 2007-2017 as a part of supporting democracy in Ukraine under the Polish Cooperation Development Program. Firstly, this work examines whether the Polish government's support of Ukrainian media as part of cooperation development will be sustained regardless of changes in the Polish government. Secondly, the paper explores whether Polish NGOs tailor their projects, financed by the Polish MFA, to the recipients' respective needs and the current situation in Ukraine. By examining Polish media assistance, the authors aim to explain the efforts of the new donor in developing media in a partner country, emphasizing the relation between the involvement of external actors and the presence of independent media which play an important role in democratization processes.

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Section: 'Old' and 'New' Media For Democratisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wsparcie nowych mediów na Ukrainie w ramach polskiego programu pomocy rozwojowej

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2017

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“…The popularity of blogs that shaped the Arab public sphere since 2006 is a good example. Armbrust (2007) and Ulrich (2009) remind us of the need to historicise technological (user-generated) developments such as Arab blogging by looking at the longer existing and strong culture of oral mediation, or tape-recorded sermons distributions and of course popular magazines. There is a common tension between historical continuity and change.…”

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Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions

Aouragh

2012

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“…fares when published and consumed on the Internet. But overall, Walter Armbrust's (2007) plea has so far remained largely unheeded: "The last thing I would like to see is a repetition of the sterile debate over the political effects of al-Jazeera carried out in academic analyses of blogs." An "old and familiar concern for politics" structures much of Middle Eastern studies, including media studies, and has come "at the expense of the rest of the content" that is being communicated on the media.…”

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Nextopia? Beyond Revolution 2.0

Hofheinz¹

2011

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Research on the impact of the internet in the Middle East has been dominated by a focus on politics and the public sphere, and oscillated between the hope for "revolutionary" change and the admission that regime stability in the region has not easily been unsettled by media revolutions alone. Obsession with the new and with latest technologies has helped to obscure more long-term sociocultural developments. This contribution is a plea for a shift of paradigm: to study more seriously the social and cultural effects of Internet and mobile phone use; to find out what impact the use of these media has on conceptions of the individual and its role in the construction of knowledge and values; and to determine how these dynamics are embedded in more long-term historical developments promoting a greater role for the individual vis-à-vis established authorities. Revolution Through the Ever-Latest Technology? "If you want to liberate a society, just give them the Internet." This is what Wael Ghonim, Google executive and Facebook activist, told CNN on February 11, 2011, the day Hosni Mubarak resigned as President of Egypt. If you want to know "what's next" after the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, "ask Facebook" (Cooper, 2011). Wael Ghonim's statement is illustrative for the great hopes for liberation and democratization that have driven much of what has been published for over a decade now on the impact of the use of the Internet in the Middle East. These hopes for liberation and democratization have often been cast in the mode of "revolution," and a fascination with "revolutions" in technology has facilitated the impetus to discover the "revolutionary" effects that the technology might have on state and society. One of the preeminent journals in the field, Arab Media & Society, was created in 2007 with the proclaimed goal of "Reporting a revolution" (Pintak, 2007). Granted, those who unreservedly believe in the power of 1 This article has its origin in a presentation to the Seventh International Conference on Cultural Attitudes

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Pensée 2: New Media and Old Agendas: The Internet in the Middle East and Middle Eastern Studies

Cited by 12 publications

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Wsparcie nowych mediów na Ukrainie w ramach polskiego programu pomocy rozwojowej

Wsparcie nowych mediów na Ukrainie w ramach polskiego programu pomocy rozwojowej

Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions

Nextopia? Beyond Revolution 2.0

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