Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet - Softcover

Herrera, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781682755 ISBN 13: 9781781682753

Publisher: Verso, 2014

Synopsis

Egypt's January 25 revolution was triggered by a Facebook page and played out both in virtual spaces and the streets. Social media serves as a space of liberation, but it also functions as an arena where competing forces vie over the minds of the young as they battle over ideas as important as the nature of freedom and the place of the rising generation in the political order. This book provides piercing insights into the ongoing struggles between people and power in the digital age.

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About the Author:

Linda Herrera is a social anthropologist (PhD Columbia University) with regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa. She lived in Egypt for seventeen years where she worked in the areas of the politics of education and international development policy. She is currently  Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a core faculty member in the Global Studies in Education progam.

Review:

“Prawer’s book is a milestone: the first important, very well informed and open, non-marxist study in dept of Marx on literature.”—Lee Baxandall, author of Marxism and Aesthetics: A Selective Annotated Bibliography

“Here is a major book on Marx, the imagination of history, and nineteenth-century literary taste, executed with standards of scholarship as rare among Marx’s adherents as among his detractors.”—Bruce Erlich, Prairie Schooner

“By clarifying Marx’s countless allusions not only to the classics of literature but also to more obscure writings, Prawer enhances our understanding and appreciation of Marx’s argument. Since few of us have the remarkable literary range of Marx, Prawer is an invaluable guide through the labyrinth of Marx’s literary metaphor.”—David MacGregor, Contemporary Sociology

“The detail is fascinating and precise. I have discovered only two sources not noted by Professor Prawer, and fear that even these he knows.”—Roy Pascal, translator of The German Ideology by Marx and Engels

“A learned, useful and entertaining book.”—Times Literary Supplement

“While it is not possible to summarize so richly illustrated a work ... it will no longer be quite so easy for writers on Marx to ignore, glide over, or repress the aesthetic dimension so skillfully evoked by Prawer.”—Theodore Mills Norton, American Political Science Review

“A landmark in comparative literature.”—George Steiner

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1781682755
• ISBN 13: 9781781682753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192