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Since 2013 and Edward Snowden's revelations, the problem of cyber (or digital) sovereignty has become a fundamental concern in Russia. The Russian authorities have adopted new policies in order to ensure the security of digital infrastructures around the country. Within this frame, new promotion policies for the development of Russian software have been launched by State actors and private corporations, which primarily beneficiate from them. A strategy of russification of the software programs used in Russia seems to have emerged in the form of new norms and regulations to regulate the design, functioning and usage of informatic tools. This new central -and strategic- position of the digital industry in Russia, which is designed to safeguard the interests of the Russian corporations and the State, both inside and outside the country, allows us to wonder if the country can now be regarded as an international digital power: did Russia become a cyber power ?
Keywords: Russie, numérique, puissance, stratégie, cyber, Russia, digital, power, strategy, cyber
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This paper explores how the pandemic intersects with religious nationalism in Pakistan and isolates vulnerable groups through the use of its colonial-era Blasphemy Laws. Using the August 2020 case of a music video shoot inside a mosque, the paper emphasizes the role of social media ‘cancel culture’ in mobilizing these laws to persecute ‘wrongdoers’ in the name of ‘Islam’. The paper confronts power relations and creates new knowledge to challenge prevailing hegemonic structures by exploring the selective applicability of cancel culture and the Blasphemy Laws.
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This study explored how course instructional format (i.e., online, face-to-face, or hybrid) is related to the frequency and duration of out-of-class communication (OCC) between college instructors and students, to student motives for communicating with teachers, and to perceived teacher approachability for conversation outside of class. Though differences in frequency of and student motives for engaging in OCC were not significant, students enrolled in face-to-face courses reported significantly more ongoing/durative OCC with their instructors compared to students enrolled other course types (i.e., online or hybrid). Students in fully online courses reported instructors to seem less receptive to but also less discouraging of OCC than students in face-to-face or hybrid courses. Overall, this study offers a sense of how students who seek informal interaction with instructors beyond the classroom are faring amid the increased reliance on web-based learning environments in higher education.
Keywords: out-of-class communication (OCC), extra-class communication (ECC), computer-mediated communication, teacher approachability, hybrid education, online teaching, online learning, course format
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Nowhere in the Arab world have anxieties about social and cultural change been as intensely discussed as in Saudi Arabia, where the Salafi doctrine of Wahhabiyya at the heart of the Saudi system as a sacrosanct vision of authenticity grounded in cultural and religious purity and gender separation. The advent of « reality television » in the mid-2000s has activated these debates in the kingdom. Notably Star Academy, a popular Arabic-language reality show broadcast by the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) via satellite from Lebanon since December 2003 achieved record Saudi ratings and provoked an intense controversy in Saudi Arabia, emptying city streets and animating mosque sermons, opinion pages, and talk-shows. Elsewhere I have mapped how the show became the locus of a battle between Saudi radicals, conservatives and liberals. This article traces overlapping Saudi-Islamist discourses about television, including various rhetorics of censorship and critical engagement, drawing on a variety of primary texts, most centrally a widely circulated sermon titled Satan Academy by Shaykh Muhammad Saleh Al Munajjid. I focus on how public controversies about reality television has crystallized new episodes of long-standing debates.
Keywords: Kraidy, Arabie saoudite, modernité, authenticité, islam, téléréalité, Kraidy, Saudi Arabia, Modernity, Authenticity, Islam, Reality TV, Kraidy, Arabia saudita, modernidad, autenticidad, islam, tele-realidad
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Considered as the first social movement « documented by its own players », the Arab uprisings initiated in late 2010 have resulted in a profusion of images, shot with mobile phones and posted online. The amount of operators, their constancy and risk-taking in front of repression, and the declarations, repeated in the recordings, such as « It must be filmed ! », establish the act of filming as a crucial gesture, necessary to tell the world what is happening... and to state their own existence. Too often reduced to a « citizen journalism », this practice is not just dedicated to inform and serve different functions such as to allow the re-appropriation of representation. The « filming citizens » appear as struggling for the recognition of their collective and individual dignity.
Keywords: Riboni, printemps arabes, vidéo, mobilisations, image, révolte, réseaux sociaux, Égypte, Tunisie, Riboni, Arab Spring, Videoactivism, Images, Mobilisations, Social Networks, Egypt, Tunisia, Riboni, primavera árabe, vídeo, imágenes, movilizaciones, redes sociales, Egipto, Túnez
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This article compares Donald Trump's and Jair Bolsonaro's strategies of governance in terms of what we define here as “gore mediation.” Gore mediation is the use of different electronic media in order not only to communicate political positions but also to terrorize people into accepting exclusionary policies and discriminatory practices. The creation of artificial threats and the dismissal of real ones (like the COVID pandemic) characterizes the actions of both Trump and Bolsonaro, whose governments operate fundamentally on symbolic bases, but whose incessant print, televisual, and networked mediations have violent socio-economic consequences.
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This paper investigates the use of Internet-based local and transnational social networks by young migrants living in the outlying regions of Quebec, with the aim of defining how the networks relate to identity (sense of belonging). The young people surveyed all use the Internet to stay in contact with their immediate family and friends in their homeland, but make very little use of it — and especially use it in a different way — with their new friends in Quebec. With the exception of two respondents who completely reject the idea of belonging, the migrants surveyed all identify with their homeland, and most of them also identify with Quebec. The latter, whether intentionally or not, have developed a social network that includes native-born Quebeckers. This finding provides evidence of the role played by others in the development of conceptions of self in the Internet age.
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Activist groups like No Estamos Todas (NET) leverage social media to share art memorializing feminicide victims. While analyzing NET’s social media posts for patterns in representations of victims, we noticed contributions starting in 2017 from middle schoolers in Illinois. The way these artworks focus on victims’ lives led us to explore a collaboration between NET, these students, and their teacher. Through a feminist pedagogical analysis of the project, we argue that the students engage in recognition-based gender justice. We provide guidelines for implementation and pedagogical approaches, hoping to inspire teachers to recognize students as agents of change.
Keywords: Art Teaching, enseignement des arts, Gender-Based Violence, violence fondée sur le genre, Feminist Pedagogy, pédagogie féministe