The Youth Bulge in Egypt: An Intersection of Demographics, Security, and the Arab Spring

LaGraffe, Daniel

doi:10.5038/1944-0472.5.2.4

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“…In this politically-charged context, little is known about patterns of media use among educated, metropolitan, and technologically savvy Iranian youth, the demographic which has proven to be the most active in the region's political upheaval (see LaGraffe, 2012). What sources and platforms do these youth use for information?…”

Section: Utopian Dystopian Realistic: New Media After the 2009 Elecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Will politics be tweeted? New media use by Iranian youth in 2011

Wojcieszak

Smith

2013

New Media & Society

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A survey of 2,800 Iranian youths regarding their consumption of media and social media indicates that the Internet and state-run television are their primary source for news and information, followed by traditional media and personal connections. Twitter, long thought to be the catalyst of the post-election discontent in 2009, did not show up on the radar of news and information sources. Briar SmithUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA AbstractThe uprisings after the 2009 elections in Iran generated debate on new media's potential to affect dissent in authoritarian countries. We surveyed 2800 young, educated, metropolitan, and technologically savvy Iranians over a year after the election and during the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to examine what sources these youth use for information, the extent to which they rely on new media for political exchanges, their experiences with online censorship, and political efficacy as related to new media. Although the Internet was stated as the most important news outlet, state-controlled television was often used, and Twitter was the least prevalent new media platform. Personal issues and IT/science were more often discussed via new media than politics. Further, it was using new media, not talking politics online, that predicted the frequency with which respondents encountered blocked websites online and also perceptions of their ownpolitical efficacy. Although our findings may support voices that are skeptical about technology's ability to sustain revolution, we also identify what can be described as hubs of politicized Iranian youth.

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Section: Utopian Dystopian Realistic: New Media After the 2009 Elecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Will politics be tweeted? New media use by Iranian youth in 2011

Wojcieszak

Smith

2013

New Media & Society

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“…While the Egyptian higher educational sector has focused on the trajectory of steady modernisation, efforts are becoming more determined on the quantifiable and measurable qualities related to economic competitiveness. With the steady growth in population in Egypt, higher education acts as a pivotal player in social stability (LaGraffe, 2012); external efforts have been yet incapable of the inspiration of an operational notion of employability on reality so that meaningful principles of quality education could be developed. Hence, the essence of the study emerged for better decision-process making for effective allocation of resources especially in the presence of the economic challenges Egypt is facing after the revolution of 2011.…”

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Questioning Facilities Management in Higher Education in Egyptian Context for Better Decision-Making Process of Funding Allocation

Elghany¹,

Elharakany²

2017

IJBM

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The quality of education is influenced by the managerialization of the universities, which refers to the introduction of substantial changes in the decision-making processes of the academic institutions, and the application of renewed information systems along with new managerial methodologies to restructure the organisational strategic relationships with stakeholders. This paper proposes a questionnaire to assess the importance of facilities in universities according to their financial budget consumed value. Semi Structured Interviews were conducted with the heads of logistic and financial departments in Egyptian universities, twenty public universities and twenty-three private universities, in order to identify criteria for the most significant university's facilities and appealing infrastructure that contributes to the quality of education.

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“…In this formulation, youth represent a particularly troubling side of surplus populations, both for the Israeli government and the HAMAS authority. Accordingly, and not accidently, the siege policy is of primary importance for managing this particular population, which the Arab Spring has demonstrated is a destabilizing factor in any society experiencing extreme stagnation (Anderson ; Campante and Chor ; LaGraffe ; Malik and Awadallah ).…”

Section: Youth Under Siegementioning

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Isolation Through Humanitarianism: Subaltern Geopolitics of the Siege on Gaza

Smith

2016

Antipode

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Scholars have argued that in attempts to achieve geopolitical goals, siege often results in covert assaults against civilian populations. In the Gazan context, siege subjects are rendered as surplus to the Israeli state, and are therefore isolated and deprived of basic human needs as well as human rights. In 2006, siege was enacted against Gaza, enforced by the Egyptian and Israeli militaries. As a consequence, the population of Gaza is isolated from the exchange of goods, services, people, and ideas. This article begins with an analysis of siege as a violent process and as a subset of occupation practices. Using ethnographic data collected in Gaza between 2009 and 2014, this article mobilizes the methods and approach of subaltern geopolitics to undermine the notion of siege as a humanitarian alternative to war. This study reveals the micro-scale, graduated nature of siege and its impacts on the civilians living in Gaza.

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The Youth Bulge in Egypt: An Intersection of Demographics, Security, and the Arab Spring

Cited by 96 publications

References 6 publications

Will politics be tweeted? New media use by Iranian youth in 2011

Will politics be tweeted? New media use by Iranian youth in 2011

Questioning Facilities Management in Higher Education in Egyptian Context for Better Decision-Making Process of Funding Allocation

Isolation Through Humanitarianism: Subaltern Geopolitics of the Siege on Gaza

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