About this Event
On Tuesday 27 April (4.15pm, UK time), Dr Rania Saleh (Visiting Lecturer at Alexandria University, Egypt) will present on ‘Media and Political Changes in Egypt’.
All registered attendees will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event via Microsoft Teams.
The speaker will present a 45-minute paper, followed by discussion and Q&A.
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Abstract
The reputation of the 25th January Revolution as a “media revolution” is in many ways warranted. The capacities of new media to confer agency on oppositional movements is prominent in the emerging historiography of 2011’s “Facebook Revolution.” While this label is not completely wrong, it also happens to be very incomplete. In fact, no single form of media played a determining role in the Revolution. It was interaction between a diverse range of media, both digital and traditional, from word of mouth to cinema and television, played a role in both the build-up to the Egyptian revolution and the event itself. Cultural messages played a significant role in the revolution, in diverse forms including protest songs, political jokes, cartoons, street chants and placards. Some of these messages drew on past struggles for dignity and social justice by invoking musicians and poets of previous generations to mobilize the current generation in the present struggle.