Shifting Paradigms of Cultural Expression: Toward a Critical Framework for Arab Digital Cultural Studies | ||||
| مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة السويس | ||||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 16 May 2025 | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfask.2025.384707.1226 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
ريهام Øسني 
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| قسم اللغة الإنجليزية، كلية الآداب، جامعة المنيا | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study proposes a critical framework for Arab digital cultural studies by examining the dynamic intersections of aesthetics, digital infrastructures, and power structures within Arabic social media literature. It interrogates how digital platforms shape processes of cultural production, resistance, and creative agency, addressing significant gaps in current scholarship—particularly the lack of epistemological reflexivity. Drawing on two case studies, the research explores themes of participatory creativity, platform politics, and algorithmic governance, shedding light on how digital environments enable new modes of literary expression while simultaneously constraining them through mechanisms of control and commodification. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, the study challenges technologically deterministic narratives and foregrounds the socio-political conditions that influence digital cultural practices. The findings demonstrate that although digital media extend the expressive horizons of Arabic literature, they also entangle it within the logics of platform capitalism and geopolitical asymmetries. This study contributes to rethinking authorship, resistance, and cultural agency in the Arab digital public sphere. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Arab digital cultural studies; digital authorship; Digital literary production; Participatory creativity; Geopolitics of creativity | ||||
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