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Living in darkness: Internet humour and the politics of Egypt's electricity infrastructure
Author(s) -
El Khachab Chihab
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12268
Subject(s) - the internet , politics , order (exchange) , power (physics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , subject (documents) , electricity , state (computer science) , sociology , media studies , political science , history , law , business , computer science , world wide web , engineering , artificial intelligence , physics , electrical engineering , finance , algorithm , quantum mechanics
Power cuts have become a lively subject of discussion in Egypt, and they have been extensively mocked in internet memes. Based on a selection of images from the popular Asa7be page, this article examines the visual techniques and joking conventions employed in online memes in order to criticize the Egyptian state's management of the country's electricity infrastructure.