%0 Journal Article
%T Wearing shades in the bright future of digital media: Limitations of narratives of media power in Egyptian resistance
%A Karin Gwinn Wilkins
%J MedieKultur : Journal of Media and Communication Research
%D 2012
%I Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
%X Political engagement means more than reliance on a single medium, but requires collective human action. In making this argument, I consider how the media landscape, along with social and political contexts, have contributed to this process of shifting political power in Egypt. This background contextualizes the limitations of a dominant Hollywood narrative in U.S. media, not only telling a reductive tale of hero, victim and villain, but also privileging the role of social media as an anthropomorphic heroic sidekick. Mediated communication can be valuable as a vehicle for mobilization and as a site for political contestation, but it is the access to the production and reception of knowledge that matters. In essence, the critical issue in political resistance is power, not technology.
%K Political Communication
%K Media
%K Egypt
%U http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/5491