Using network analysis and cultural analytics, panelist will present social media content on the “Arab Spring,” collected and analyzed on R-Shief.org since 2008. To defamiliarize our understanding of “Arab,” she will contextualize the extreme brutality in Bahrain, and the more popularized violent tactics of the Syrian regime, to the military complex in Egypt. If globalization is hyper-local, then how can visualizations of petabytes of media offer a window on different regional, national, and local practices? (VJ Um Amel)

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