Rinke, EM orcid.org/0000-0002-5330-7634 and Röder, M (2011) Media Ecologies, Communication Culture,and Temporal-Spatial Unfolding: Three Components in a Communication Model of the Egyptian Regime Change. International Journal of Communication, 5. pp. 1273-1285. ISSN 1932-8036
Abstract
Discussion of the events of early 2011 in Tunisia and Egypt in Western publics has been largely unstructured and characterized by an undue preoccupation with new media. In light of this, the aim of this paper is twofold: to learn from these regime-changing processes in order to understand them, and to inform a nascent model of political communication in contemporary Arab societies more generally. We start by proposing some critical steps for giving structure to present and coming attempts at understanding the course of events, focusing on those in Egypt. They involve giving greater attention to three heretofore neglected components of a prospective communication model of the Egyptian regime change: the media ecologies, communication culture, and temporal-spatial unfolding of events. After a brief discussion of these, we offer several personal on-the-ground observations from the starting days of the revolutionary movement in Cairo to give flesh to the analytical structure we propose, and provide starting points for coming inquiries into the role of communication for anti-authoritarian movements in the Arab world.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2011, Eike M. Rinke and Maria Röder. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commmons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). |
Keywords: | Arab Spring; social movements; activism; protest; new media; social media; Al Jazeera; Egypt; Tunisia |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 May 2019 09:54 |
Last Modified: | 22 May 2019 09:54 |
Published Version: | https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1173 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143649 |