{"product_id":"arabic-glitch-technoculture-data-bodies-and-archives-hardback-9781503630994","title":"Arabic Glitch; Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (Hardback) 9781503630994","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArabic Glitch\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTechnoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaila Shereen Sakr (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503630994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 July 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e194 pages, 22 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.364 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Innovative and original, \u003ci\u003eArabic Glitch\u003c\/i\u003e interrupts the theoretical silence around Arab technocultures. Channeling the academic, artistic, activist, and technologist, Laila Shereen Sakr embodies the contemporary hybridity of Arab cultural production, inaugurating a rightful place for it in the canon.\"—Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser University \"Laila Shereen Sakr's breathtaking work will transform how the social sciences and humanities understand cyber-activism, transnational solidarity, and collective power. \u003ci\u003eArabic Glitch\u003c\/i\u003e is the book interdisciplinary scholars and activists across the world have been waiting for.\"—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois at Chicago \"Laila Shereen Sakr and her avatar, VJ Um Amel, embrace the glitch—clouds of unknowing, slippery loops, cracks and failures of systems—to better see the materiality of technology, power, and revolution. Aligning theory and practice, installation and performance, Sakr mobilizes media art and digital activist scenes across the Middle East, North Africa, and the internet.\"—Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College CUNY \"\u003ci\u003eArabic Glitch\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential addition to the critical discourse on power and surveillance in the age of the internet. Laila Shereen Sakr decodes the specificity of language and cultural identity on digital praxis, boldly articulating how digital data can enable a distinct form of ocular awareness.\"—Dr. Omar Kholeif, author of \u003ci\u003eInternet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs\u003c\/i\u003e \"Sakr's \u003ci\u003eArabic Glitch\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely addition to media scholarship, prompting the reader to consider the messy realities of how political contexts and data bodies are interwoven. This text will serve as a guidepost for future exploratory work across disciplines.\"—Jessica McClearn, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Cyber Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArabic Glitch\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngaging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: A Posthuman Techno-Feminist Praxis\u003cbr\u003e  One: Glitch in the Age of Technoculture\u003cbr\u003e  Two: Arab Data Bodies\u003cbr\u003e  Three: Digital Activism\u003cbr\u003e  Four: Aggregation as Archive\u003cbr\u003e  Five: Art Practice\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Fix Your Own Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610638151960,"sku":"9781503630994","price":67.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/arabic-glitch-technoculture-data-bodies-and-archives-hardback-9781503630994","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}