Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia

1. Introduction: Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation – a Dialectical and Multi-Scalar Reading
Carola Richter, Anna Antonakis, Cilja Harders

2. Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation
Merlyna Lim

3. Self-Mediation Practices of Arab Anarchists
Almut Woller

4. Power Dynamics in Online Communities: The Palestinian Case
Abir Kopty

5. Political Communication Chinese Style: The Elite Network in State-Regulated Sina Weibo

Zihao Lin, Andrea Hamm, Susanne Reinhardt

6. Internet-mediated Communication in Activists’ Internal Networks: The Case of Iranian Women’s Rights Activism
Mina Naeli

7. Feminist Networks in Times of Multi-layered Transformations: Perspectives from Tunisia
Anna Antonakis

8. Social Movements and Social Media in a Post-Revolutionary Political Culture: Constitutional Debates in Egypt
Hanan Badr

Keywords: Social Sciences, Communication Studies, Cultural Policy and Politics, Comparative Politics