Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgements 5
3. Table of Contents 7
4. Introduction: About Space as a Media Product 9
5. Part I Cartographies
6. 1. Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production and Government in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire 27
7. 2. Who Maps Middle Eastern Geographies in the Digital Age? Inequalities in Web 2.0 Cartographies in Israel/Palestine 45
8. 3. Taking the Battle to Cyberspace : Delineating Borders and Mapping Identities in Western Sahara 71
9. 4. Wargaming the Middle East: The Evolution of Simulated Battlefields from Chequerboards to Virtual Worlds and Instrumented Artificial Cities 95
10. Part II Movements
11. 5. Iranian Internet Cinema, a Cinema of Embodied Protest : Imperfect, Amateur, Small, Unauthorized, Global 119
12. 6. From Amateur Video to New Documentary Formats : Citizen Journalism and a Reconfiguring of Historical Knowledge 139
13. 7. Cinematic Spaces of ‘the Arab Street’ : Mohamed Diab’s Inverted Road Movie Clash (2016) 159
14. 8. Body-Space-Relation in Parkour : Street Practices and Visual Representations 175
15. 9. Mediated Narratives of Syrian Refugees : Mapping Victim–Threat Correlations in Turkish Newspapers 201
16. Part III Agencies
17. 10. Documenting Social Change and Political Unrest through Mobile Spaces and Locative Media 225
18. 11. Reframing the Arab Spring : On Data Mining and the Field of Arab Internet Studies 241
19. 12. Where is Iran? Politics between State and Nation , Inside and Outside the Polity 261
20. 13. Mapping Genocide? Giving Visual Memory to Oral Culture 283
21. 14. Reconfiguring the Kurdish Nation on YouTube : Spatial Imaginations, Revolutionary Lyrics, and Colonial Knowledge 299
22. Index 319