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Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourse and social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus on Kuwait, Deborah L. Wheeler offers an intimate journey through the lives of women, youth, and Islamist Internet users, and through their testimonies shows what the Internet means to various Internet subcultures in the emirate. The book includes a historical overview of the values and design principles embedded in the Internet by its inventors and early adopters, and examines the major questions, debates, assumptions, and findings of the emerging field of Internet studies. Drawing on six years of research, including three years of fieldwork in Kuwait, Dubai, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, Wheeler provides a comparative overview of the meaning and manifestations of the Internet in the Middle East, giving careful attention to whether or not the Internet lives up to global expectations of promoting democracy, economic privatization, and personal freedom.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Internet in the Middle East
• Subtitle: Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in Kuwait
• Author: Deborah L. Wheeler
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 254
• EAN: 9780791465851
• ID: 09387329
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 472 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 155 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. October 2005

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