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Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World
(June 2020)
Ahmed Al-Rawi - Author
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Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.
Following the Arab Spring events in 2011, a number of important women’s social movements, as well as female figures and online communities, emerged to create positive change and demand equality with men. In Women&rs...(Read More) |
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Social Media in Iran
(December 2015)
Politics and Society after 2009
David M. Faris - Editor
Babak Rahimi - Editor
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First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran.
Social Media in Iran is the first book to tell the complex story of how and why the Iranian people—including women, homosexuals, dissidents, artists, and even state actors—use social media technology, and in doing so create a contentious environment wherein new identities and realities are constructed. Drawing together e...(Read More) |
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Portable Communities
(October 2008)
The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness
Mary Chayko - Author
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RUNNER-UP – 2009 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award
Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.
“I blog, text, IM, email, and I don’t like to be without my cell phone or have to shut it off—even in a theater. Let’s put it this way, my ‘connections&r...(Read More) |
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Technology, Development, and Democracy
(February 2002)
International Conflict and Cooperation in the Information Age
Juliann Emmons Allison - Editor
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The impact of internet technologies on international politics.
Technology, Development, and Democracy examines the growing role of the Internet in international affairs, from a source of mostly officially sanctioned information, to a venue where knowledge is often merged with political propaganda, rhetoric and innuendo. The Internet not only provides surfers with up-to-the-minute stories, including sound and visual i...(Read More) |
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Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University
(April 1996)
Teresa M. Harrison - Editor
Timothy Stephen - Editor
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This book explores the various ways in which computer networking, and more specifically the Internet, is changing the practices, the structure, and the products of academic scholarship. It considers research, teaching, and dissemination of knowledge across a range of disciplines in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences in order to identify particular uses of networking that will come to constitute the academic world of the future.
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Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication
(February 1996)
Charles Ess - Edited and with an introduction by
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The rush to the Information Superhighway and the transition to an Information Age have enormous political, ethical, and religious consequences. The essays collected here develop both interdisciplinary and international perspectives on privacy, critical thinking and literacy, democratization, gender, religion, and the very nature of the revolution promised in cyberspace. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand and...(Read More) |
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