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Indisputably, media cannot be ignored when analyzing political and societal transformation processes. Historically, media have always played a role in reshaping public debates and reorganizing social and political hierarchies (see, e. g. Armbrust, 2012 or Fahmy, 2011 for a historical perspective on the role of media in the Middle East). In recent times of digitalization, the process of mediatization, i. e. of incorporating media into everyday life communication, has increased tremendously (Hepp & Krotz, 2014).
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Richter, C., Antonakis, A., Harders, C. (2018). Introduction: Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation – a Dialectical and Multi-Scalar Reading. In: Richter, C., Antonakis, A., Harders, C. (eds) Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia. Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20700-7_1
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