Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives’ - Book Launch

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Join the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D’s) upcoming webinar as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) hub of the Feminist AI Research Network with author Laila Shereen Sakr, celebrating the release of her new book Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives.

Laila Shereen Sakr is an Associate Professor of Media Theory and Practice at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research in media analytics and creative scholarship have deployed the idea, experimentation and aesthetics of glitches to make a series of conceptual points culminating in her single-authored book.

About the book:
‘Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics—one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements.’

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