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Arabic Glitch - Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (Hardcover)
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Arabic Glitch - Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (Hardcover)
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Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first
century technological innovation in digital politics-one centered
on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an
archive of social media data collected over the decades following
the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the
logic of programming technology influences and shapes social
movements. Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital
practice in form, method, and content, Laila Shereen Sakr
formulates a media theory that advances the concept of the glitch
as a disruptive media affordance. She employs data analytics to
analyze tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture
of social media, and performs the results under the guise of the
Arabic-speaking cyborg VJ Um Amel. Playing with multiple voices
that span across the virtual and the real, Sakr argues that there
is no longer a divide between the virtual and embodied: both bodies
and data are physically, socially, and energetically actual. Are we
cyborgs or citizens-or both? This book teaches us how a region
under transformation became a vanguard for new thinking about
digital systems: the records they keep, the lives they impact, and
how to create change from within.
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