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veröffentlicht: | Aarhus 2012 |
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, Erschienen in: MedieKultur, volume 28 / 2012, number 52, pp. 49 - 61. [ISSN: 1901-9726]
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Beschreibung: | freier Zugang |
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Umfang: | 13 p. |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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, Erschienen in: MedieKultur, volume 28 / 2012, number 52, pp. 49 - 61. [ISSN: 1901-9726]
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Kollektion: | Datenbank Internetquellen |
"Political engagement means more than reliance on a single medium, but requires collective human action. In making this argument, I consider how the media landscape, along with social and political contexts, have contributed to this process of shifting political power in Egypt. This background contextualizes the limitations of a dominant Hollywood narrative in U.S. media, not only telling a reductive tale of hero, victim and villain, but also privileging the role of social media as an anthropomorphic heroic sidekick. Mediated communication can be valuable as a vehicle for mobilization and as a site for political contestation, but it is the access to the production and reception of knowledge that matters. In essence, the critical issue in political resistance is power, not technology." [Information des Anbieters] |
Introduction; Media landscape; Social and political context; US media narratives of Egyptian protest; Limitations to the Orientalist narrative; References |