Chattering Classes/Twittering Revolutionaries: Social Media, and the Arab Spring
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Abstract:
In Culture and Imperialism Edward Said discusses internationality and cosmopolitanism against the backdrop of the Gulf War, and Rée’s view that the “nation-form is a kind of false consciousness”, as if it were “an expression of popular subjective will” (Said, 1993: 10). But the monopolization of power by central national authorities results in a kind of façade, whereby “processes which are actually the effect of internationality are experienced as an expression of the natures of different nations and their individual members” (Said, 1993: 10, emphasis added). Yet nationalism sits uncomfortably in countries that, some might say, were in some cases artificial by-products of colonialism and social media are, arguably, providing broad access to a reclamation of citizen agency andself-determination.
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