Does the internet facilitate social and political change, or even
democratization, in the Middle East? Despite existing research on
this subject, there is still no consensus on the importance of
social media and online platforms, or on how we are to understand
their influence. This book provides empirical analysis of the
day-to-day use of online platforms by activists in Egypt and
Kuwait. The research evaluates the importance of online platforms
for effecting change and establishes a specific framework for doing
so. Egypt and Kuwait were chosen because, since the mid-2000s, they
have been the most prominent Arab countries in terms of online and
offline activism. In the context of Kuwait, Jon Nordenson examines
the oppositional youth groups who fought for a constitutional,
democratic monarchy in the emirate. In Egypt, focus surrounds the
groups and organizations working against sexual violence and sexual
harassment. Online Activism in the Middle East shows how and why
online platforms are used by activists and identifies the crucial
features of successful online campaigns. Egypt and Kuwait are
revealed to be authoritarian contexts but where the challenges and
possibilities faced by activists are quite different. The
comparative nature of this research therefore exposes the
context-specific usage of online platforms, separating this from
the more general features of online activism. Nordenson
demonstrates the power of online activism to create an essential
'counterpublic' that can challenge an authoritarian state and
enable excluded groups to fight in ways that are far more difficult
to suppress than a demonstration.
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