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Decolonizing Palestine in the Digital Public Sphere

Narrative Sovereignty and Representation Online

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Decolonizing Palestine in the Digital Public Sphere

Narrative Sovereignty and Representation Online

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How do Palestinians and their global allies use online platforms to reshape narratives about Palestinian self-determination amid systemic erasure and contested representation? This book examines how Palestinian voices navigate the digital public sphere across websites and social media platforms including Facebook, X, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, tracing the long arc of Palestinian media practice from pre-digital forms shaped by censorship and external gatekeeping to contemporary counter-narratives, networked witnessing, and transnational solidarity. It analyses the effects of algorithmic moderation, shadow banning, and content takedowns on Palestinian visibility, while documenting the ingenuity through which Palestinians assert cultural identity online through digital archives, language, and everyday practice. Situating these dynamics through the lenses of Orientalism, hegemony, the politics of representation, narrative sovereignty, and digital decolonization, the book contributes to wider debates on platform governance, algorithmic justice, and decolonial futures, arguing that Palestinian digital resistance is a globally significant case for understanding representation in an AI-mediated world.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Digital Public Sphere and Palestinian Voices
Chapter 1: Digital Public Sphere and Palestinian Narrative Sovereignty
Chapter 2: Palestine and Media Prior to the Digital Revolution
Chapter 3: New Discourse and Language – Palestinian Counter-Narratives
Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Representations of Palestine in the Digital Sphere
Chapter 5: Digital Solidarity Networks – Global Advocacy for Palestine
Chapter 6: AI Challenges and Implications for Palestinian Digital Representation
Chapter 7: Palestinian Culture Online and Preservation of Identity
Chapter 8: Conclusion – Reflections on Decolonized Narratives in the Digital Age

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 18 Feb 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9780755653980
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 20 b&w images
Series SOAS Palestine Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Shadi Abu-Ayyash

Shadi Abu-Ayyash is Assistant Professor in the Dep…

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