Wired Citizenship

Linda Herrera is Associate Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

"At a time when much of what is written about youth online activity in the Middle East is patently hyperbolic or woefully simplistic, Wired Citizenship offers a refreshing corrective to much of the mythology surrounding youth engagement in a time of revolution. Herrera has compiled a truly unlikely volume that actively problematizes and courageously deconstructs the most prescient propositions on young people's digital practices. Topically and thematically, the book is expansive yet consummately nuanced, covering a vast geographic terrain and unsettling a broad range of canons—from literacy and education to mass communication and international relations."—Adel Iskandar, Georgetown University, USA“Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East is an excellent new collection on virtual learning for critical citizenship in the digital age. With its focus on wired and revolutionary activity it also investigates the troubled geopolitics of North Africa and the Middle East. It is a timely and valuable comment on the ‘Facebook Revolution’ and essential reading for understanding the Arab youth activism and the power of the Internet.”—Michael A. Peters, University of Waikato, New Zealand"In addition to its significant contribution to the fields of youth culture and the sociology of youth, Wired Citizenship calls for a rethinking of the way we perceive the concepts of citizenship and de- mocracy. I hope this call will also be an inspiration for the researchers of youth studies to think about youth political participation beyond the limited patterns that seem given and unchangeable owing to the old and conventional ways of doing politics." —KULT Online Journal

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Wired and Revolutionary in the Middle East and North Africa Linda Herrera & Rehab SakrSection I: Virtual Learning for Critical Citizenship Chapter 2: Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from EgyptLinda Herrera (republished from Harvard Educational Review)Chapter 3: Morocco On-Trial: De-colonial Logic and Transformative Practice in CyberspaceCharis BoutieriChapter 4: Children’s Citizenship: Revolution and the Seeds of an Alternative Future in EgyptChiara DianaChapter 5: Cyberspace in Turkey: A “youthful” space for expressing powerful discontent and suffering Demet LüküslüChapter 6: Distorting Digital Citizenship: Khaled Said, Facebook, and Egypt’s StreetsAmro Ali & Dina El-Sharnouby Section II: Internet, Geopolitics and Redefining the Political Chapter 7: “Hungry for Freedom” Palestine Youth Activism in the Era of Social MediaMira NabulsiChapter 8: Opening Networks, Sealing Borders: Youth and Racist Discourse on the InternetMiranda Christou & Elena IoannidouChapter 9: Computer Intimacy: Digitally-Mediated Democratization of Arab Youth CultureCatherine CornetChapter 10: “We Are Not All Malala”: Children and Citizenship in the Age of Internet & Drones Fauzia RahmanChapter 11: The Power of Online Networks: Citizenship among Muslim Brotherhood Cyber YouthRehab SakrChapter 12: Digital Technology as Surveillance: The Green Movement in IranNarges Bajoghli