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This book examines the stresses that the Internet and its constitutive IP technologies bring to the establishment and ongoing articulation of a young nation-state, the United Arab Emirates; socially, culturally, economically and politically. In so doing, this book positions the UAE as a bellwether not only for other young Gulf states that are in the process of building out their digital infrastructure but also for emergent post-national states such as Canada, and so-called traditional federal states such as the United States, Russia, China, and India, where post-national trends towards political and economic regionalism and cultural disaggregation are under way. This book accomplishes this by combining a discussion of recent developments in communications, cyber, cultural and social theory with a detailed analysis of the results of a longitudinal large-scale survey research project—The Emirates Internet Project (EIP), a member partner of the World Internet Project—that surveys residents of the UAE along the dimensions enumerated, above.

CHAPTER 19 The Arab World: The Broadband Market Is Taking Off—How Far Away Is Webcasting? Ilhem Allagui and Claude Martin University of Montréal The Arab Telecommunication market has been witnessing an important change over the last decade. Transformations ...

Abstract This chapter uses results from the Emirates Internet Project to address effects of the Internet upon the articulation of expatriate communities in the UAE, in particular the Internet's effect upon the aggregation of expatriate cultures and polities in the UAE. These groups' ...

CHAPTER 4 Webcasting in Canada: The Imbedded Media Claude Martin, Ilhem Allagui, and Marylaine Chaussé University of Montreal Canadian webcasting has been developing in a quite favorable context. Internet penetration is high and spending on cultural products or ...

... 1 of 20 Article No. 6 Multiple Mirrors of the Arab Digital Gap Ilhem Allagui American University of Sharjah, UAE Abstract This paper discusses the digital divide in the Arab region. It studies the digital divide on double dimensions: the access and the usage. The access gap ...

Political Islam is at the forefront of all political discussions in and about the Middle East. It is associated regionally and internationally with “terrorism” affecting the interstate as well as intrastate politics and conflicts. The ways in which the A.

New Information and Communication Technologies are recognized as having a great potential to drive development in the Arab world and reduce the digital gap among countries and regions. Efforts to promote this vision are displayed by private and public sector and ...