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A growing body of research reveals the emergence of forms of youth public participation, intensified by digital technologies, practices and cultures. This is a multilevel study of the reconstruction of Lebanese youth and children's rights in the digital age through discourses and practices of participation in the #YouStink protest movement against a waste collection crisis. The article explores these rights by focusing on children and young people's engagement with the movement, their ability to express their views freely and to influence decisions. It analyses how such participation through communicative, cultural and political practices becomes a contested resource for various actors, institutions and networks.

The Middle East's digital turn has renewed hopes of socio-economic development and political change across the region, but it is also marked by stark contradictions and historical tensions. In this book, Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil contend that the region is caught in a digital double bind in which the same conditions that drive the state, market, and public immersion in the digital also inhibit change and perpetuate stasis. The Digital Double Bind offers a path-breaking analysis of how the Middle East negotiates its relation to the digital and provides a roadmap for a critical engagement with technology and change in the Global South.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Media and Culture in the Middle East: An Introduction -- Part I Theories, Ideologies, and Problematics -- Chapter 1 Orientalism and Culture -- Beyond Orientalism? -- References -- Chapter 2 Muslims, Art, and Invisible Modernities -- Muslim Blur, Fugitivity, and Mounir Fatmi's Art -- References -- Chapter 3 Development and Modernization in the Middle East -- Development in the Middle East -- Modernization in Middle East Development Programs -- References -- Chapter 4 Hybridity as Dazzlement: Rethinking Fusion Through Joseph Tonda's Postcolonial Imperialism -- Tonda's Critique of Hybridity -- Tonda's Theory of the Image -- South-to-South Hybridities? -- References -- Chapter 5 "Arab" Cultural Studies: Phenomenology Being Digital, and Other Notes -- Media as Equipment and Being Digital -- Cultural Studies: Towards Double-Thrownness as Method -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Politics, Gender, Minorities, and Class -- Chapter 6 Intellectuals, Modernities, and the Emerging Public Sphere -- Introduction -- Debating Intellectuals and Commitment -- Intellectuals Encounter with Modernities -- Intellectuals and the Emerging Public Sphere -- References -- Chapter 7 Feminisms and Feminist Movements in the Middle East -- The Rise of Feminist Movements -- Organizing, Issues, and Tactics -- References -- Chapter 8 The State, the Media, and the Revival of Labor Activism in the Middle East -- References -- Chapter 9 The Meaning and Purpose of "Minority Media" in the Middle East and North Africa -- Introduction -- Does Minority Media Exist? -- The Tasks of an Alternative Media Space -- Minority Media/Global Media -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Media Industries, Markets, and Technologies.