Digital source imperialism and the Arab world

Mestyan, A

Abstract

The term “digital imperialism” has been commonly used to describe cases where digital products transform social customs, but I use the term “digital source imperialism” here to refer to those who seek to control or monopolize access to digital products that belong to the public domain.

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Digital publication

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Digital Humanities
Arabic
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Mestyan, A (2016). Digital source imperialism and the Arab world. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13683.

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Adam Mestyan

Associate Professor of History

Dr. Mestyan is on sabbatical leave in the academic year 2023-2024.Adam Mestyan researches and teaches the history of empire and subordinated states in the Arabic-speaking world. He is most interested in devising new analytical categories to describe temporal change. His current research interest centers on the relationship between nature, Islamic law, taxation, and state formation in the twentieth century. He is now writing an environmental history of Cairo.Hi

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