In Culture and Imperialism Edward Said discusses internationality and cosmopolitanism against the backdrop of the Gulf War, and Ree'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 and self-determination.
Article
Chattering Classes/Twittering Revolutionaries: Journalism, Social Media, and the Arab Spring
English
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Article
Publication Date
4-1-2014
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Association of Alumni in Modern Languages and Literatures (ALL) University of Udine
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Hawley, J. C. (2014). Chattering Classes/Twittering Revolutionaries: Journalism, Social Media, and the Arab Spring. Le Simplegadi, XII (12), 166–184.
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