Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East (Critical Youth Studies)

At a time when much of what is written about youth online activity in the Middle East is patently hyperbolic or woefully simplistic, Wired Citizenship offers a refreshing corrective to much of the mythology surrounding youth engagement in a time of revolution. Herrera has compiled a truly unlikely volume that actively problematizes and courageously deconstructs the most prescient propositions on young people's digital practices. Topically and thematically, the book is expansive yet consummately nuanced, covering a vast geographic terrain and unsettling a broad range of canons-from literacy and education to mass communication and international relations. -Adel Iskandar, Georgetown University, USA

Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East is an excellent new collection on virtual learning for critical citizenship in the digital age. With its focus on wired and revolutionary activity it also investigates the troubled geopolitics of North Africa and the Middle East. It is a timely and valuable comment on the `Facebook Revolution' and essential reading for understanding the Arab youth activism and the power of the Internet. -Michael A. Peters, University of Waikato, New Zealand

In addition to its significant contribution to the fields of youth culture and the sociology of youth, Wired Citizenship calls for a rethinking of the way we perceive the concepts of citizenship and de- mocracy. I hope this call will also be an inspiration for the researchers of youth studies to think about youth political participation beyond the limited patterns that seem given and unchangeable owing to the old and conventional ways of doing politics. -KULT Online Journal