“Arab” Cultural Studies: Phenomenology Being Digital, and Other Notes
Sabry, T. 2023. “Arab” Cultural Studies: Phenomenology Being Digital, and Other Notes. in: The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East London Wiley. pp. 45-52
Sabry, T. 2023. “Arab” Cultural Studies: Phenomenology Being Digital, and Other Notes. in: The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East London Wiley. pp. 45-52
| Chapter title | “Arab” Cultural Studies: Phenomenology Being Digital, and Other Notes |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabry, T. |
| Abstract | In this essay I extend my reflections on the Arab cultural studies project and rehearse alternative critical spaces in which to engage with digital media, culture, and society in the Arab region. It proposes an ‘interrupted phenomenology’ as a processual method (and way of philosophising) with which to navigate through/between the (inside-outside) shuttling processes of cultural translation as a means to decolonise the sign. The essay also demonstrates, using examples from empirical research, how phenomenology can be a useful way to ask new questions about the media and digitality, as well as our ontological/ethical vulnerabilities and uncertainties as researchers. This essay locates digital media within the context of human existence and, therefore, within that of human communication (how humans communicate). It describes the condition of sharedness that comes with our being-with-in-the-world and highlights the kind of multi-sensorial forms of communication that humans derive from being digital. |
| Book title | The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East |
| Page range | 45-52 |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 09 Jun 2023 |
| Place of publication | London |
| Series | Global Handbooks in Media and Communications co-published by IAMCR and Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISBN | 9781119637066 |
| 9781119637134 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119637134.ch5 |