The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East - Brossura

Libro 46 di 48: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics

Zayani, Mohamed; Khalil, Joe F.

 
9780197508633: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East
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ISBN 10: 0197508634 ISBN 13: 9780197508633
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2024

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The digital has emerged as a driving force of change that is reshaping everyday life and affecting nearly every sphere of vital activity. Yet, its impact has been far from uniform. The multifaceted implications of these ongoing shifts differ markedly across the world, demanding a nuanced understanding of specific manifestations and local experiences of the digital.

In The Digital Double Bind, Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil explore how the Middle East's digital turn intersects with complex political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics. Drawing on local research and rich case studies, they show how the same forces that brought promises of change through digital transformation have also engendered tensions and contradictions. The authors contend that the ensuing disjunctures have ensnared the region in a double bind, which represents the salient feature of an unfolding digital turn. The same conditions that drive the state, market, and public immersion in the digital also inhibit the region's drive to change.

The Digital Double Bind reconsiders the question of technology and change, moving beyond binary formulations and familiar trajectories of the network society. It offers a path-breaking analysis of change and stasis in the Middle East and provides a roadmap for a critical engagement with digitality in the Global South.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mohamed Zayani is Professor of Critical Theory at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

Joe F. Khalil is Associate Professor of Global Media at Northwestern University in Qatar.

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Editore
OUP USA
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0197508634
ISBN 13 
9780197508633
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
320
Contatto del produttore
Oxford University Press
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9780197508626: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East

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ISBN 10:  0197508626 ISBN 13:  9780197508626
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2024
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