'Blogging: keyboards fight tanks': counter-authoritariandiscourses In Egyptian blogs

Saif, Ghazal

Abstract

This study highlights various counter-hegemonic discourses in
Egyptian blogs. It underscores how bloggers protest against the
authority of both state and social institutions. It departs from existing
empirical research in its theoretical approach and methodology in terms
of size, categorization and analysis of sample. The key empirical results of
the thesis show that it is more rewarding to ‘look at what blogs are
talking about’ than to ‘look for’ the applicability of a theoretical theorem
to the discourse on blogs. As a result, the findings that emerged during the
analysis of sample, and the postmodern theoretical trajectories that arose
from the same, were not anticipated and quite insightful. Finally, this
study provides a nuanced understanding of resistance-bloggers, the
position of the blogosphere within the Egyptian social-nexus, upon which,
it is hoped, future studies of blogs can build.

Citation

Saif, G. 'Blogging: keyboards fight tanks': counter-authoritariandiscourses In Egyptian blogs. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

• Thesis Type: Thesis
• Deposit Date: Jul 26, 2013
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00016805
• Keywords: 21st century, Blogs, Digital communications, Digital media, Egypt, Internet, Online social networks, Political aspects, Politics and government, Social conditions
• Award Date: Jan 1, 2013