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Azawad's Facebook Warriors: Currents in Media, Social and Religious Movements in the Middle East

Autor Michael Keen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 iul 2021
In January 2012, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a group dominated by members of the Tuareg ethnic group, launched a military uprising seeking the independence of Mali¿s vast but sparsely populated north as the democratic, secular nation-state of Azawad. Azawad¿s Facebook Warriors tells the extraordinary story of a small group of social media activists who sought to broadcast the MNLA¿s cause to the world. Azawad¿s Facebook Warriors offers a groundbreaking new study of the MNLA¿s use of social media through the original analysis of more than 8,000 pro-MNLA Facebook posts published over a four-year period and interviews with key architects of the MNLA¿s media strategy. The book further places the MNLA¿s social media activism in context through a nuanced treatment of northern Mali¿s history and an unparalleled blow-by-blow account of the MNLA¿s role in the Malian civil war from 2012 through 2015. More broadly, through the case study of the MNLA, the book argues that studying rebel social media communications, a field that has until now unfortunately received scant scholarly attention, will prove an increasingly important tool in understanding rebel groups in coming years and decades.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781433186363
ISBN-10: 1433186365
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 150 x 225 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Peter Lang Copyright AG
Seria Currents in Media, Social and Religious Movements in the Middle East


Notă biografică

Michael Keen (BA, Emory University; MLitt, University of St. Andrews) is an analyst whose work focuses on security issues in the Sahel. He has published work on Mali's recent conflicts in numerous outlets, including Small Wars Journal and Afkar.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments - Key Acronyms - Introduction - Repression, Rebellion, and Nationalism: Northern Mali/ Azawad Through 2011 - War and Peace in Northern Mali/ Azawad: The MNLA, October 2011-December 2015 - The MNLA on Facebook: Social Media Outreach by the Numbers - A Comparative Look at the MNLA's Use of Social Media - Dominant Pro-MNLA Discourse Frames and Identity on Facebook - Sacred Visual Motifs in Pro-MNLA Facebook Discourse - Mali Since 2015: A Failing Peace Process and the Death of the MNLA's Ideology - Conclusion: Change Without Resolution - Appendix 1: Full Texts of Official Social Media Posts Referenced in Chapter 5 - Appendix 2: Links to Selected Images Posted or Shared by Official Accounts Referenced in Chapter 6 - Select Bibliography - Index.


Descriere

Through the study of MNLA's use of social media by analyzing pro-MNLA Facebook posts and interviews with key architects of the MNLA's media strategy, the book explores MNLA's role in the Malian civil war from 2012 to 2015.