Redefining Publics: <i>Mosireen</i>, State Crime and the Rise of a Digital Public Sphere

Kasm, Saeb

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Author(s): Saeb Kasm ¹

Publication date (Print): 1 April 2018

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Keywords: Egypt, public sphere, civil society, digital resistance, counter-hegemonic struggles, state violence, corruption, narratives and counter-narratives, publics and counter-publics, visual criminology

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The article traces the rise of Mosireen, a non-profit media collective, within the parameters of revolutionary and post-revolutionary Egypt's public sphere. It highlights how the Mosireen Collective strategically co-opted the infrastructure of the internet during critical periods of the Egyptian revolution as a tool of resistance to fight injustice, expose human rights violations and restore some semblance of accountability. Moreover, it explores Mosireen's innovative online/offline digital activism which enabled formerly marginalized publics to access new modes of information and challenge elite-driven discourses, thereby contributing to the “democratization” of the public sphere. The article further investigates Mosireen's emancipatory use of technology where the creation of an oppositional framework not only sustained “resistance from below” movements but also seemed to open up new potentialities for counter-hegemonic spaces and alternative discursive frameworks of society. The article provides a rich case study in how ideological struggles and questions of power are interpreted within the broader realm of Egyptian civil society with a particular focus on the power of visual production and its effect on the development of digital counter-publics. Finally, the limitations of the public sphere under neo-liberal capitalism are contextualized and critiqued within the context of the Mosireen Collective and broader digital resistance movements.

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[2] Abdulla, R. ( 2014) “Egypt's Media in the Midst of Revolution”, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1 July. Available online at http://carnegieendowment.org/files/egypt_media_revolution.pdf.

[3] Adamson, W. ( 1980) Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory . Berkeley: University of California Press.

[4] Alexander, J.C. ( 1996) “Collective Action, Culture and Civil Society: Secularizing, Updating, Inverting, Revising and Displacing the Classical Model of Social Movements”, in J. Clark and M. Diani, eds, Alain Touraine . London and Washington: Falmer Press.

[5] Alexander, J.C. ( 2006) The Civil Sphere . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[6] Appadurai, A. ( 1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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[8] Atton, C. ( 2002) Alternative Media . London: SAGE.

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[10] Bajaj, M. ( 2015) “Pedagogies of Resistance and Critical Peace Education Praxis”, Journal of Peace Education 12 ( 2): 154– 166.

[11] Baker, M. (ed.) ( 2016) Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution . New York: Routledge.

[12] Barber, B. ( 2004) “Which Technology and Which Democracy?”, in H. Jenkins and D. Thorburn, eds, Democracy and New Media . Cambridge: The MIT Press.

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[14] Bayat, A. ( 1997) Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran . New York: Columbia University Press.

[15] Bayat, A. ( 2003) “The ‘Street’ and the Politics of Dissent in the Arab World”, Middle East Research and Information Project, No. 226. Available online at http://www.merip.org/mer/mer226/street-politics-dissent-arab-world.

[16] Bellin, E. ( 2007) “Arab Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective”, Comparative Politics 36 ( 2): 139– 157.

[17] Benhabib, S. ( 1992) Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics . London: Polity Press.

[18] Benkler, Y. ( 2006) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom . New Haven: Yale University Press.

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[20] Bennett, W.L. and Segerberg, A. ( 2012) “The Logic of Connective Action”, Communication & Society 15 ( 5): 739– 768.

[21] Bridgman, K. ( 2014) Assemblages of Dissent: The Emergence of Online Identities during the Egyptian Revolution . Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

[22] Brown, A. ( 2013) Practical Digital Preservation: A How to Guide for Organizations of Any Size . London: Facet Publishing.

[23] Brown, S. ( 2014) “The Criminology of Hybrids: Rethinking Crime and Law in Technosocial Networks”, Theoretical Criminology 10 ( 2): 223– 244.

[24] Brownlee, J. ( 2007) Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization . New York: Cambridge University Press.

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[28] Carrabine, E. ( 2012) “Just Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology”, British Journal of Criminology 52 ( 3): 463– 489.

[29] Carroll, W.K. and Hackett, R.A. ( 2006) Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication . London: Routledge.

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[31] Castells, M. ( 2007) “Communication, Power and Counter-Power in the Network Society”, International Journal of Communications 1: 238– 266.

[32] Chadwick, A. ( 2013) The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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