Arab Revolutions: Breaking Fear| Egypt's Unfinished Revolution: The Role of the Media Revisited

Anne Alexander, Miriyam Aouragh

Abstract


This article analyzes the role of the media in the Egyptian revolution, distinguishing between the political synchronization of media forms, which was achieved during the 18 Days uprising, and broader processes of media convergence. We locate the key dynamics of media production and consumption by revolutionary activists not in the affordances of the Internet but in the shifting balance of forces between revolution and counterrevolution on the wider political stage. Using various examples, we argue that parts of the popular movement inEgypt have moved away from reliance on old and new capitalist media as simply carriers of their voices and hopes toward media practices seeking to develop media voices and infrastructures of their own.


Keywords


Egypt; revolution; internet; journalism; political activism

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