The Digital Double Bind

The Middle East’s digital turn has renewed hopes of socioeconomic development and political change across the region. It has also engendered stark contradictions and accentuated existing tensions. The resulting disjunctures are ensnaring the region in a digital double bind: the same conditions that...

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मुख्य लेखकों: Zayani, Mohamed, Khalil, Joe F.
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प्रकाशित: Oxford University Press 2025
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description The Middle East’s digital turn has renewed hopes of socioeconomic development and political change across the region. It has also engendered stark contradictions and accentuated existing tensions. The resulting disjunctures are ensnaring the region in a digital double bind: the same conditions that drive the immersion of the state, market, and public in the digital also inhibit change and perpetuate stasis. Grounded in local research and anchored in rich case studies, The Digital Double Bind critically engages with the question of technology and change beyond binary formulations and familiar trajectories of the network society. It offers a pathbreaking analysis of how the Global South negotiates its relation to the digital.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1638022025-08-05T05:10:36Z The Digital Double Bind Zayani, Mohamed Khalil, Joe F. double bind, digital transformation, digital economy, digital infrastructure, digital politics, digital cultures, cultural and creative industries, digital capitalism, Middle East, Global South thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT1 Media studies: internet, digital media and society thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy The Middle East’s digital turn has renewed hopes of socioeconomic development and political change across the region. It has also engendered stark contradictions and accentuated existing tensions. The resulting disjunctures are ensnaring the region in a digital double bind: the same conditions that drive the immersion of the state, market, and public in the digital also inhibit change and perpetuate stasis. Grounded in local research and anchored in rich case studies, The Digital Double Bind critically engages with the question of technology and change beyond binary formulations and familiar trajectories of the network society. It offers a pathbreaking analysis of how the Global South negotiates its relation to the digital. 2025-08-05T05:10:35Z 2025-08-05T05:10:35Z 2025-08-04T10:28:32Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104916 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163802 eng Oxford Studies in Digital Politics open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104916/1/9780197508640.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780197508626.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780197508626.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 321 open access
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Zayani, Mohamed
Khalil, Joe F.
The Digital Double Bind
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