Remixing the Spring!: Connective leadership and read-write practices in the 2011 Arab uprisings

Donatella Della Ratta; Augusto Valeriani

Remixing the Spring! Connective leadership and read-write practices in the 2011 Arab uprisings

Donatella Della Ratta, Augusto Valeriani

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

Abstract

This chapter² examines and discusses the connections between the unfolding of the Arab uprisings and the ‘culture of the net’ (Castells, 1996). The role of the internet and social networks in the events that, starting from December 2010, shook and reshaped the Arab region has been extensively debated in articles, conferences and public meetings. Mainstream media have largely recurred to the ‘Facebook and Twitter revolutions’ narrative to describe the grassroots process which led to the overthrown of Ben Ali and Mubarak’s regimes in Tunisia and Egypt in the first months of 2011. A lot of emphasis has been placed on the role played by social networks in organizing and mobilizing the masses. It has even been questioned whether the Arab awakening could ever have taken place without the internet and social networks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Communication rights and social justice : historical accounts of transnational mobilizations
Editors	Claudia Padovani, Andrew Calabrese
Number of pages	17
Place of Publication	Basingstoke
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	2014
Pages	288-304
Chapter	16
ISBN (Print)	9781137378293
Publication status	Published - 2014

Series	Global transformations in media and communication research

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Della Ratta, D., & Valeriani, A. (2014). Remixing the Spring! Connective leadership and read-write practices in the 2011 Arab uprisings. In C. Padovani, & A. Calabrese (Eds.), Communication rights and social justice: historical accounts of transnational mobilizations (pp. 288-304). Palgrave Macmillan. Global transformations in media and communication research http://iamcr.org

Remixing the Spring! Connective leadership and read-write practices in the 2011 Arab uprisings. / Della Ratta, Donatella; Valeriani, Augusto.

Communication rights and social justice: historical accounts of transnational mobilizations. ed. / Claudia Padovani; Andrew Calabrese. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 288-304 (Global transformations in media and communication research).

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Della Ratta, D & Valeriani, A 2014, Remixing the Spring! Connective leadership and read-write practices in the 2011 Arab uprisings. in C Padovani & A Calabrese (eds), Communication rights and social justice: historical accounts of transnational mobilizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Global transformations in media and communication research, pp. 288-304. <http://iamcr.org>

Della Ratta, Donatella ; Valeriani, Augusto. / Remixing the Spring! Connective leadership and read-write practices in the 2011 Arab uprisings. Communication rights and social justice: historical accounts of transnational mobilizations. editor / Claudia Padovani ; Andrew Calabrese. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. pp. 288-304 (Global transformations in media and communication research).

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