Wired Citizenship

<p><em>Wired Citizenship</em> examines the evolving patterns of youth learning and activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In today’s digital age, in which formal schooling often competes with the peer-driven outlets provided by social media, youth all over the globe have forged new models of civic engagement, rewriting the script of what it means to live in a democratic society. As a result, state-society relationships have shifted—never more clearly than in the MENA region, where recent uprisings were spurred by the mobilization of tech-savvy and politicized youth.</p><p>Combining original research with a thorough exploration of theories of democracy, communications, and critical pedagogy, this edited collection describes how youth are performing citizenship, innovating systems of learning, and re-imagining the practices of activism in the information age. Recent case studies illustrate the context-specific effects of these revolutionary new forms of learning and social engagement in the MENA region.<br> </p> <p>Chapter 1: Introduction: Wired and Revolutionary in the Middle East and North Africa <br>Linda Herrera & Rehab Sakr</p><p>Section I: Virtual Learning for Critical Citizenship </p><p>Chapter 2: Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt<br>Linda Herrera (republished from Harvard Educational Review)</p><p>Chapter 3: Morocco On-Trial: De-colonial Logic and Transformative Practice in Cyberspace<br>Charis Boutieri</p><p>Chapter 4: Children’s Citizenship: Revolution and the Seeds of an Alternative Future in Egypt<br>Chiara Diana</p><p>Chapter 5: Cyberspace in Turkey: A “youthful” space for expressing powerful discontent and suffering <br>Demet Lüküslü</p><p>Chapter 6: Distorting Digital Citizenship: Khaled Said, Facebook, and Egypt’s <br>Streets<br>Amro Ali & Dina El-Sharnouby </p><p>Section II: Internet, Geopolitics and Redefining the Political </p><p>Chapter 7: “Hungry for Freedom” Palestine Youth Activism in the Era of Social Media<br>Mira Nabulsi</p><p>Chapter 8: Opening Networks, Sealing Borders: Youth and Racist Discourse on the Internet<br>Miranda Christou & Elena Ioannidou</p><p>Chapter 9: Computer Intimacy: Digitally-Mediated Democratization of Arab Youth Culture<br>Catherine Cornet</p><p>Chapter 10: “We Are Not All Malala”: Children and Citizenship in the Age of Internet & Drones <br>Fauzia Rahman</p><p>Chapter 11: The Power of Online Networks: Citizenship among Muslim Brotherhood Cyber Youth<br>Rehab Sakr</p><p>Chapter 12: Digital Technology as Surveillance: The Green Movement in Iran<br>Narges Bajoghli </p>