How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring - The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia (Hardcover)

On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London published one of the memos with an article headlined 'Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising'. The effect of the revelation was immediate, helping set in motion an aggressive counter-narrative to the nascent story of the Arab Spring. The article featured a cluster of virulent commentators all pushing the same story: the CIA, George Soros and Hillary Clinton were attempting to take over Egypt. Many of these commentators were trolls, some of whom reappeared in 2016 to help elect Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. This book tells the story of how a proxy-communications war ignited and hijacked the Arab uprisings and how individuals on the ground, on air and online worked to shape history.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2019
Authors:	Nathaniel Greenberg
Dimensions:	236 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-5395-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Propaganda Promotions
LSN:	1-4744-5395-3
Barcode:	9781474453950

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