Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods
used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia, codeswitching, language …

Social media platforms provide major opportunities for online activism and the emergence of
digital counterpublics. Research on counterpublics has focused on actors and their narrative …

The war correspondent is an endangered species–and that is a serious problem for
democracy. Media companies everywhere are reducing the number of foreign …

The Syrian revolution has brought about the creation of a pop-up news ecology, an entirely
new, oppositional news system fueled by citizen activists' use of social media to report on …

Humor in political communication has always been about more than bringing fun and
entertainment to serious matters. Humor can help to popularize one's positions or stultify …

Abstract Using Performance Theory as an explanatory basis, this essay explicates the
performance of gender in social media beginning with the gendered history of digital …

Despite the scientific and technological progress made in coping with disasters, many lives
are still lost due to gaps in warning communication. Women are overrepresented in the …

This article strives to set in motion comprehensive research on the ways in which Arabic is
evolving in Arabic blogs and computer mediated communication (CMC). By combining …

This article addresses the usefulness of the concepts public sphere, counterpublics, and
cultural citizenship for understanding some of the most popular noncommercial Lebanese …

This chapter contributes to the understandings of youth activism through an examination of
constructions of youth and activism in Lebanon. Lebanon provides an interesting case study …