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040			_aDLC _beng _cNVIC _erda
100	1		_aLaila Shereen Sakr
245	1	0	_aArabic Glitch: _bTechnoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives
264		1	_aStanford: _bStanford University Press, _c2023
300			_a180 p., _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : a posthuman techno-feminist praxis -- Glitch in the age of technoculture -- Arab data bodies -- Digital activism -- Aggregation as archive -- Art practice -- Conclusion : fix your own democracy.
520			_a"Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics--one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements. Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital practice in form, method, and content, Laila Shereen Sakr formulates a media theory that advances the concept of the glitch as a disruptive media affordance. She employs data analytics to analyze tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture of social media, and performs the results under the guise of the Arabic-speaking cyborg VJ Um Amel. Playing with multiple voices that span across the virtual and the real, Sakr argues that there is no longer a divide between the virtual and embodied: both bodies and data are physically, socially, and energetically actual. Are we cyborgs or citizens--or both? This book teaches us how a region under transformation became a vanguard for new thinking about digital systems: the records they keep, the lives they impact, and how to create change from within"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aOnline social networks _xPolitical aspects _zArab countries
650		0	_aSocial media _xPolitical aspects _zArab countries
650		0	_aCommunication in politics _zArab countries
650		0	_aPolitical participation _zArab countries
650		0	_aSocial movements _zArab countries
650		0	_aArab Spring, 2010-
651		0	_aArab countries _xPolitics and government _y21st century
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