Tents, Tweets, and Television: Communicative Ecologies and the No to Military Trials for Civilians Grassroots Campaign in Revolutionary Egypt
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Tents, Tweets, and Television : Communicative Ecologies and the No to Military Trials for Civilians Grassroots Campaign in Revolutionary Egypt. / Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke.
Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age. ed. / Margaret D'Silva; Ahmet Atay. Routledge, 2019.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Tents, Tweets, and Television
T2 - Communicative Ecologies and the No to Military Trials for Civilians Grassroots Campaign in Revolutionary Egypt
AU - Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke
PY - 2019/12/9
Y1 - 2019/12/9
N2 - In this chapter, I show in ethnographic detail how activists and journalists built relationships in the context of the campaign, No to Military Trials for Civilians. The campaign was initiated after the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) took control of Egypt following protests in Tahrir Square and across the country in January–February 2011. The army has effectively ruled Egypt since the 1952 coup. Throughout this time, Egypt has experienced significant censorship. Journalists and activists have fought these attempts at monopolizing public conversation for generations. During the 2011–2013 uprising, the state’s attempts to control information was significantly influenced by the ongoing protests. In this context, No to Military Trials for Civilians succeeded in getting broad corporate media attention to the issue of military trials. Using the concept of communicative ecologies as an analytical lens, I argue that their ability to do so was dependent on their vast array of communicative practices. These included setting up tents in Tahrir Square during sit-ins, video recording testimonies, tweeting from battles, having a hotline, exchanging phone numbers in lines in front of military prisons in the desert, appearances on television, and much more. The chapter is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Egypt.
AB - In this chapter, I show in ethnographic detail how activists and journalists built relationships in the context of the campaign, No to Military Trials for Civilians. The campaign was initiated after the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) took control of Egypt following protests in Tahrir Square and across the country in January–February 2011. The army has effectively ruled Egypt since the 1952 coup. Throughout this time, Egypt has experienced significant censorship. Journalists and activists have fought these attempts at monopolizing public conversation for generations. During the 2011–2013 uprising, the state’s attempts to control information was significantly influenced by the ongoing protests. In this context, No to Military Trials for Civilians succeeded in getting broad corporate media attention to the issue of military trials. Using the concept of communicative ecologies as an analytical lens, I argue that their ability to do so was dependent on their vast array of communicative practices. These included setting up tents in Tahrir Square during sit-ins, video recording testimonies, tweeting from battles, having a hotline, exchanging phone numbers in lines in front of military prisons in the desert, appearances on television, and much more. The chapter is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Egypt.
U2 - 10.4324/9780203731277
DO - 10.4324/9780203731277
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781138303256
BT - Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age
A2 - D'Silva, Margaret
A2 - Atay, Ahmet
PB - Routledge
ER -
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