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SUMMARY:New Media|Alternative Politics: Communications technologies and po
 litical change in the Middle East and Africa - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Sharath Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:"CLICK HERE for registration and programme details":http://www
 .crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1323/\n\nThe spread of digital technologies in th
 e Middle East and Africa has generated the view that 'new media' open up p
 olitical spaces for dissent\, activism and emancipation. This conference o
 ffers an opportunity to critically reassess these assumptions. “New medi
 a\, alternative politics” will bring together researchers\, academics\, 
 activists\, journalists and policy makers to discuss whether and how new m
 edia empower an alternative politics and mobilise political change.
LOCATION:CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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