Has the Information Revolution In Muslim Societies Created New Publics?

Q3 Social Sciences

Muslim World Journal of Human Rights Pub Date : 2010-08-19 DOI:10.2202/1554-4419.1187

S. Hashemi-Najafabadi

引用次数: 2

Abstract

In this essay, at the outset the meaning of public, as it will be deployed in the article, will be delineated. Then by surveying new media, this study intends to show how the information revolution can bring social and political change in Muslim societies, especially in the Middle East. However, in this way a particular level of differentiation will be provided by distinguishing not just such media as satellite broadcasting from the Internet, but the second from the first generation of the Internet. With regard to the relation between online activities and offline social and political behavior, particularly the role of some new Web 2.0 applications, such as Facebook and Twitter, in changing Muslim publics will be discussed and some specific examples from the Muslim world, especially Iran, will be presented. Finally, the implication of this study would be that the Internet may have something to do with the transition from authoritarianism to democracy.

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穆斯林社会的信息革命是否创造了新的公众?

在这篇文章中，在一开始，“公共”的含义将被描述，因为它将在文章中被部署。然后，通过调查新媒体，本研究旨在展示信息革命如何在穆斯林社会，特别是在中东地区，带来社会和政治变革。然而，通过这种方式，不仅可以将卫星广播这样的媒体与互联网区分开来，还可以将第二代互联网与第一代互联网区分开来，从而提供一种特殊程度的区别。关于线上活动与线下社会与政治行为之间的关系，特别是一些新的Web 2.0应用，如Facebook和Twitter，在改变穆斯林公众中的作用，将会被讨论，并将介绍一些来自穆斯林世界，特别是伊朗的具体例子。最后，这项研究的含义是，互联网可能与从威权主义到民主的过渡有关。

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Muslim World Journal of Human Rights Social Sciences-Law

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期刊介绍： Muslim World Journal of Human Rights promises to serve as a forum in which barriers are bridged (or at least, addressed), and human rights are finally discussed with an eye on the Muslim world, in an open and creative manner. The choice to name the journal, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights reflects a desire to examine human rights issues related not only to Islam and Islamic law, but equally those human rights issues found in Muslim societies that stem from various other sources such as socio-economic and political factors, as well the interaction and intersections of the two areas. MWJHR welcomes submissions that apply the traditional human right framework in their analysis as well as those that transcend the boundaries of contemporary scholarship in this regard. Further, the journal also welcomes inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches to the study of human rights in the Muslim world in an effort to encourage the emergence of new methodologies in the field. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights recognizes that several highly contested debates in the field of human rights have been reflected in the Muslim world but have frequently taken on their own particular manifestation in accordance with the varying contexts of contemporary Muslim societies.