Vol. 13, Iss. 1, 2019

Authoritarianism, Digital Dissidence and Grassroots Media in the Middle East and North Africa region

20 Dec 2019

Authoritarianism, Digital Dissidence and Grassroots Media in the Middle East and North Africa region
Josepha Wessels Editorial As an introduction to this special issue of CyberOrient, this text provides an insight into ongoing research in studies of digital layers of revolutions, digital communication, and dissidence in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region. Providing a short overview of the latest developments of uprisings and street demonstrations in the region, the text reflects on similarities and differences between the various revolts currently…

Editorial

Deterritorializing Cyber Security and Warfare in Palestine: Hackers, Sovereignty, and the National Cyberspace as Normative

20 Dec 2019

Deterritorializing Cyber Security and Warfare in Palestine: Hackers, Sovereignty, and the National Cyberspace as Normative
Fabio Cristiano Article Cybersecurity strategies operate on the normative assumption that national cyberspace mirrors a country’s territorial sovereignty. Its protection commonly entails practices of bordering through infrastructural control and service delivery, as well as the policing of data circulation and user mobility. In a context characterized by profound territorial fragmentation, such as the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT),1 equating national cyberspace with national territory proves to be reductive. This…

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Techies on the Ground: Revisiting Egypt 2011

20 Dec 2019

Techies on the Ground: Revisiting Egypt 2011
Laila Shereen Sakr Article This article studies social media and popular social movements in the early 21st century in the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on Egypt. Rather than ethnography or political theory exclusively, I employ a data analytics of analyzing tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture of social media. And then I perform the results under the guise of the Arabic-speaking cyborg…

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