Broken Walls: Challenges to Patriarchal Authority in the Eyes of Sudanese Social Media Actors


This article presents and discusses voices of active social media users from the urban Sudan on the social impact of internet and mobile communication, with a focus on changes in individuals’ attitudes to established patriarchal norms, in particular regarding relations between the sexes, and between...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hofheinz, Albrecht (Συγγραφέας)
Τύπος μέσου: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
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Έκδοση: 2017
Στο/Στη: Die Welt des Islams
Έτος: 2017, Τόμος: 57, Τεύχος: 3/4, Σελίδες: 278-302
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά:B Διαδίκτυο <μοτίβο> social media Sudan patriarchy privacy youth
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Σύνοψη:This article presents and discusses voices of active social media users from the urban Sudan on the social impact of internet and mobile communication, with a focus on changes in individuals’ attitudes to established patriarchal norms, in particular regarding relations between the sexes, and between young people and their parents’ generation. The picture that emerges from interviews and online sources is that of young people often impatient with the pace of change in their society, while at the same time professing that the new technologies have enabled them, in their own lives, to break established norms, to expand the realm of their private sphere, and to assert their own voice. Such sociocultural change risks going unnoticed if one focuses mainly on the political side of the Arab Spring; it may, however, be as important as regime change to the understanding of current dynamics in the Arab world.

Φυσική περιγραφή:Online-Ressource
ISSN:1570-0607
Περιλαμβάνει:In: Die Welt des Islams
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700607-05734p02