Rania Fawzy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 669740 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rania Fawzy |
| PRENOMES | Rania |
| SOBRENOME | Fawzy |
| ASSINATURA | FAWZY R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3638-0514 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
‘You Gotta Snipe the Ride While You’re Awake’
This article approaches gig driving both as precarious work and a ‘semiotic surveillance mechanism’ that describes how platform interfaces and drivers’ discourse jointly produce the appearance of choice while making labor increasingly visible, calculable, and governable. Empirically, the article analyzes five Arabic-language YouTube videos produced by Egyptian inDrive drivers, supplemented by a rider-app walkthrough conducted in Cairo to contextu…
A Tapestry of Evolving Signs
The Axiology of Postdigital Memory
Non-discrete care
This article examines Vezeeta, a leading Egyptian medical aggregator app, as a platformized site in which healthcare is reorganised through neoliberal discourse and interface governance. Drawing on Chouliaraki and Fairclough's dialectical-relational (DR) approach to critical discourse analysis, the study foregrounds the principle of non-discreteness, treating discourse as different from – yet inseparable from – material practice and institutional…
Mediating the algorithm
This study examines how Egyptian inDrive driver-bloggers make platform work intelligible and actionable by producing YouTubed ‘vernacular theorization’, as discourse-in-action. Drawing on six Arabic-language YouTube videos, it analyses how drivers interpret and operationalize key interface cues—such as rider profile labels, ratings and trip history, ‘fair price’ prompts, counter-offer affordances, commission triggers and acceptance/refusal feedba…
Interactive resemiotization and Sacred Timespace
The International Fair and Museum of the Prophet’s Biography employs immersive, technologically enabled multimedia to depict socio-historical moments from the life of Prophet Muhammad and his companions in Medina (formerly Yathrib) following the sacred event of hijrah . Informed by this, the study develops a tripartite theoretical framework to analyze these depictions. Data are drawn from selected exhibits, including representations of ancient Me…
Humanitarian disaster and historical injustice
Ludic Surveillance and Semogenesis of Choice in The Uber Game
News gamification integrates video game mechanics such as points, badges, and challenges, transforming the experience of news reading into an interactive, competitive process. This commodifies users’ news consumption, aligning it with the logic of neoliberal self-entrepreneurship and engagement metrics. To this end, this study examines how the gamified news feature story The Uber Game transforms choice into a semiotic mechanism of control, where …
Semiotic and sociolinguistic perspectives on maqāmāt in the Islamic call to prayer
We examine the Islamic call to prayer (adhān) as an embodied, supra-linguistic sonic practice that continually remakes sacred space, time and ethical disposition. Bringing sonic geography into dialogue with Farabian music theory, Touma's analysis of the Arabic tone system and Agha's theory of enregisterment, the study treats the adhān's mode (maqām) as a spatio-temporal and semio-ethical medium. Methodologically, we draw on sound-walkthroughs, si…
The Semiotics of Silence as a Heterotopia of Agency and Legitimization
Postdigital Meantime, Silent Labor
The Al Jazeera’s visual stance on 30 June revolution
30 June Revolution and the military support that followed on 3rd of July are seen as controversial events that have led to redefining the key actors in the Egyptian authorities at that time: Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian Military. As new photos play an important role in promoting certain political aspects, the current study examines the Al Jazeera’s feature stories photos on this event. In doing so, the study synthesizes Appraisal theory wi…
The Invisible Hand of Uber in Cairo
This article analyses the Uber driver interface in Cairo, Egypt, as a site of labour governance, operating through semiotic nudging and gamified affordances. Adopting a semio-pragmatic framework, the study examines how the Uber app sustains neoliberal labour ideologies by conflating the boundaries between autonomy and control, flexibility and precarity. Through directive forces, game-like rewards, and behavioural nudges, Uber’s interface function…
Postdigital Videogames Literacies
This article is a collective response to the 2003 iteration of James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy . Gee’s book, a foundational text for those working in game studies, literacy studies, and education, identified 36 principles of ‘good learning’ which he argued were built into the design of good games, and which have since been used to unsettle the landscape of formal education. This article brings togeth…
Unravelling the Intra-actional Postdigital Temporality of Touristscapes
Appified surveillance
Locative media in the context of travel apps alter the representations of space. However, locative media technologies, more specifically travel apps, do not neutrally mediate travelscapes. Rather, they produce a complex surveillance apparatus in which users and the interface algorithm interactionally assembled. To this end, the study argues that travel apps stand as assemblage interventions which regulate the accessibility of travelscapes and rec…
Biometric Citizens in smart cities
This article addresses the socio-cognitive conceptualizations of the notion of ‘citizenship’ within the space of smart cities. It discusses how smart cities expos are endowed with ideological bearings that mark a shift in these conceptualizations. This ideological shift is explored in the policy releases of Barcelona expo media centre 2019/2020 as retrieved from the Smart City Expo World Congress website. The framework accounts for the socio-cogn…
Translocalizing the space of old Nubia in digital narrative
Digitality is closely related to and expressed within analogicity, offering a sense of intersectional continuity between the online and offline realms. However, this poses a theoretical and conceptual challenge, particularly when addressing the heterogenous notion of contemporary diaspora as a phenomenon of online/offline and past/present co-constituency. To this end, this article advances a semio-chronotopic approach to reclaiming indigenous ide…
The spatiotemporal constitution of Dubai as a semiotically assembled touristscape
Mobile technologies mark an increasing construct of heterogeneous semiotic resources which coexist in a networked symmetrical interrelations. This area of research is still understudied, especially in terms of demonstrating how app-mediated touristscapes are co-told, transduced, and augmented by networked assemblage between participants and mobile interfaces. Drawing on a pragma-semiotic approach, the present study aims to investigate the spatiot…
Metaphorical Representation in Egyptian and American Multimodal Coronavirus Memes
This study investigates the potential socio-political commentaries entailed by the multimodal metaphorical conceptualizations in Egyptian and American coronavirus memes. A contrastive qualitative and quantitative analysis is carried out on 80 multimodal memes, retrieved from Facebook, in which Coronavirus is the target domain. The sample is composed of 40 Egyptian and 40 American Coronavirus Memes. The data are analyzed within the framework of Cy…
Interfacing the cultural dialectics of commodification and resistance
Nubian culture is explored in the current study as a system of symbolic repertoires informed by dialectics. The study has drawn on the cultural approach to discourse (CAD) [Shi-xu. 2005. A Cultural Approach to Discourse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; Shi-xu. 2014. "In Cultural Dialogue with CDA: Cultural Discourse Studies." Critical Discourse Studies 11 (3): 360–369. https://do.org/10.1080/17405904.2014.890947; Shi-xu. 2015. "China's National Def…
Enchronic cultural discourse analysis
Calendrical events can conflate the political with the popular, for example, merging national identity with that of a political community, reflecting characteristics of glocalism. This article seeks to probe into Saudi national identity as emerging in the socio-political context of the calendrical event of Saudi Founding Day. Theoretically grounded in Shi-xu's cultural approach to discourse (CAD), it adopts a methodological approach called Enchro…
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D
Drawing on VR affordances and its relevant discourse of embodiment, immersion and engagement, Indigenous Futurisms (IF) challenges mainstream stereotypes of indigenous cultures. This article explores how the VR movie Crow: The Legend mediates an intercultural experience of IF. The framework proposed for understanding the virtually-mediated IF intercultural experience is grounded in the integration of SF-MDA and postphenomenology. The suggested th…
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization
The present study proposes the notion-complex of “spatiotemporal glocalization” as a potentially postdigital phenomenon inhering in the touristscape representations mediated by mobile apps, with an analytic focus on the Dubai Travel mobile app. An integrative tripartite approach has been adopted with three theoretical models at work: (1) Don Ihde’s postphenomenological perspective as reconcilable with Roudometof’s model of refracted glocalities; …
Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app
The current study investigates the intersection between crowdsourcing apps and postdigital affective polarization of online communities as manifested in the mobile app Safecity. The main thesis is that the embodied, affective semiosis, as enacted by the app algorithmic agency and participants' testimonials, produces a negative discourse of fear that may regulate the spatial actions of the putative app users. Safecity algorithms discursively frame…
Commodification of the Egyptian New Capital
Signs in the urban landscapes are never neutral; they always enact connections to power relations and social hierarchies. By examining the New Administrative Capital of Egypt’s (NAC) advertising billboards, the current study relates itself to the literature of Linguistic Landscape (LL). The study examines the NAC from a semio-discursive perspective. More specifically, it relies on the tools of Semiotic Landscape (SL) to discuss how the landscape …
A tale of two squares
Both Al Tahrir and Rabaa Squares have a significant iconized value especially after being involved as places in which to stage protests. Since, protests and revolts take place in public spaces, the visualization of these spaces reveals much about the representation and circulation of the protesters’ ideologies, trends and attitudes. This article explores the role of visual representations in the production of protest urban spaces. In so doing, th…
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D
Drawing on VR affordances and its relevant discourse of embodiment, immersion and engagement, Indigenous Futurisms (IF) challenges mainstream stereotypes of indigenous cultures. This article explores how the VR movie Crow: The Legend mediates an intercultural experience of IF. The framework proposed for understanding the virtually-mediated IF intercultural experience is grounded in the integration of SF-MDA and postphenomenology. The suggested th…
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization
The present study proposes the notion-complex of “spatiotemporal glocalization” as a potentially postdigital phenomenon inhering in the touristscape representations mediated by mobile apps, with an analytic focus on the Dubai Travel mobile app. An integrative tripartite approach has been adopted with three theoretical models at work: (1) Don Ihde’s postphenomenological perspective as reconcilable with Roudometof’s model of refracted glocalities; …
Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app
The current study investigates the intersection between crowdsourcing apps and postdigital affective polarization of online communities as manifested in the mobile app Safecity. The main thesis is that the embodied, affective semiosis, as enacted by the app algorithmic agency and participants' testimonials, produces a negative discourse of fear that may regulate the spatial actions of the putative app users. Safecity algorithms discursively frame…
Temporal agency of social movements
The article examines, through the lens of cognitive semiotics, temporal agency and experiences that define the protestors’ identity within the space of the Floyd protests as visualized in AP sequenced news photos. The analysis points to the role of resemiotized chronotopic motifs that bring together the past, present and future times of racial discrimination. In this regard, the paper synthesizes the Bakhtinian chronotope with Multimodal Conceptu…
You Are just a No
The aim of this study is to surface pragmatic forces and the semiotically constructed self-governed persona in the self-tracking context. In so doing, the article adopts a pragma-semiotic approach to investigate the self-tracking app “Habiticia” as an example of the construction of new regimes of algorithmic self-governance. The adopted approach benefits from intersecting pragmatics and Greimassian semiotics as proposed by Sbisá, Sbisá and Fabbri…
Neoliberalism in your living room
Aestheticizing suffering
A tale of two squares
Both Al Tahrir and Rabaa Squares have a significant iconized value especially after being involved as places in which to stage protests. Since, protests and revolts take place in public spaces, the visualization of these spaces reveals much about the representation and circulation of the protesters’ ideologies, trends and attitudes. This article explores the role of visual representations in the production of protest urban spaces. In so doing, th…
Neoliberalism in your living room
Let’s Play News
Gamification redefines news reading activity by turning it into a playful experience. The shift from a reading mode to a playing mode marks a shift in news semogenesis strategies that need to be investigated to provide a better understanding of the emerging genres of news gamification and to build some reflections on the ongoing changes in journalistic practices and news values. This article takes a case study of the Al Jazeera gamified news, #Ha…
Commodification of the Egyptian New Capital
Signs in the urban landscapes are never neutral; they always enact connections to power relations and social hierarchies. By examining the New Administrative Capital of Egypt’s (NAC) advertising billboards, the current study relates itself to the literature of Linguistic Landscape (LL). The study examines the NAC from a semio-discursive perspective. More specifically, it relies on the tools of Semiotic Landscape (SL) to discuss how the landscape …
You Are just a No
The aim of this study is to surface pragmatic forces and the semiotically constructed self-governed persona in the self-tracking context. In so doing, the article adopts a pragma-semiotic approach to investigate the self-tracking app “Habiticia” as an example of the construction of new regimes of algorithmic self-governance. The adopted approach benefits from intersecting pragmatics and Greimassian semiotics as proposed by Sbisá, Sbisá and Fabbri…
Temporal agency of social movements
The article examines, through the lens of cognitive semiotics, temporal agency and experiences that define the protestors’ identity within the space of the Floyd protests as visualized in AP sequenced news photos. The analysis points to the role of resemiotized chronotopic motifs that bring together the past, present and future times of racial discrimination. In this regard, the paper synthesizes the Bakhtinian chronotope with Multimodal Conceptu…
Translocalizing the space of old Nubia in digital narrative
Digitality is closely related to and expressed within analogicity, offering a sense of intersectional continuity between the online and offline realms. However, this poses a theoretical and conceptual challenge, particularly when addressing the heterogenous notion of contemporary diaspora as a phenomenon of online/offline and past/present co-constituency. To this end, this article advances a semio-chronotopic approach to reclaiming indigenous ide…
The spatiotemporal constitution of Dubai as a semiotically assembled touristscape
Mobile technologies mark an increasing construct of heterogeneous semiotic resources which coexist in a networked symmetrical interrelations. This area of research is still understudied, especially in terms of demonstrating how app-mediated touristscapes are co-told, transduced, and augmented by networked assemblage between participants and mobile interfaces. Drawing on a pragma-semiotic approach, the present study aims to investigate the spatiot…
Metaphorical Representation in Egyptian and American Multimodal Coronavirus Memes
This study investigates the potential socio-political commentaries entailed by the multimodal metaphorical conceptualizations in Egyptian and American coronavirus memes. A contrastive qualitative and quantitative analysis is carried out on 80 multimodal memes, retrieved from Facebook, in which Coronavirus is the target domain. The sample is composed of 40 Egyptian and 40 American Coronavirus Memes. The data are analyzed within the framework of Cy…
Interfacing the cultural dialectics of commodification and resistance
Nubian culture is explored in the current study as a system of symbolic repertoires informed by dialectics. The study has drawn on the cultural approach to discourse (CAD) [Shi-xu. 2005. A Cultural Approach to Discourse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; Shi-xu. 2014. "In Cultural Dialogue with CDA: Cultural Discourse Studies." Critical Discourse Studies 11 (3): 360–369. https://do.org/10.1080/17405904.2014.890947; Shi-xu. 2015. "China's National Def…
Enchronic cultural discourse analysis
Calendrical events can conflate the political with the popular, for example, merging national identity with that of a political community, reflecting characteristics of glocalism. This article seeks to probe into Saudi national identity as emerging in the socio-political context of the calendrical event of Saudi Founding Day. Theoretically grounded in Shi-xu's cultural approach to discourse (CAD), it adopts a methodological approach called Enchro…
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D
Drawing on VR affordances and its relevant discourse of embodiment, immersion and engagement, Indigenous Futurisms (IF) challenges mainstream stereotypes of indigenous cultures. This article explores how the VR movie Crow: The Legend mediates an intercultural experience of IF. The framework proposed for understanding the virtually-mediated IF intercultural experience is grounded in the integration of SF-MDA and postphenomenology. The suggested th…
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization
The present study proposes the notion-complex of “spatiotemporal glocalization” as a potentially postdigital phenomenon inhering in the touristscape representations mediated by mobile apps, with an analytic focus on the Dubai Travel mobile app. An integrative tripartite approach has been adopted with three theoretical models at work: (1) Don Ihde’s postphenomenological perspective as reconcilable with Roudometof’s model of refracted glocalities; …
Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app
The current study investigates the intersection between crowdsourcing apps and postdigital affective polarization of online communities as manifested in the mobile app Safecity. The main thesis is that the embodied, affective semiosis, as enacted by the app algorithmic agency and participants' testimonials, produces a negative discourse of fear that may regulate the spatial actions of the putative app users. Safecity algorithms discursively frame…
Postdigital Videogames Literacies
This article is a collective response to the 2003 iteration of James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy . Gee’s book, a foundational text for those working in game studies, literacy studies, and education, identified 36 principles of ‘good learning’ which he argued were built into the design of good games, and which have since been used to unsettle the landscape of formal education. This article brings togeth…
Unravelling the Intra-actional Postdigital Temporality of Touristscapes
Appified surveillance
Locative media in the context of travel apps alter the representations of space. However, locative media technologies, more specifically travel apps, do not neutrally mediate travelscapes. Rather, they produce a complex surveillance apparatus in which users and the interface algorithm interactionally assembled. To this end, the study argues that travel apps stand as assemblage interventions which regulate the accessibility of travelscapes and rec…
Biometric Citizens in smart cities
This article addresses the socio-cognitive conceptualizations of the notion of ‘citizenship’ within the space of smart cities. It discusses how smart cities expos are endowed with ideological bearings that mark a shift in these conceptualizations. This ideological shift is explored in the policy releases of Barcelona expo media centre 2019/2020 as retrieved from the Smart City Expo World Congress website. The framework accounts for the socio-cogn…
The Semiotics of Silence as a Heterotopia of Agency and Legitimization
Postdigital Meantime, Silent Labor
The Al Jazeera’s visual stance on 30 June revolution
30 June Revolution and the military support that followed on 3rd of July are seen as controversial events that have led to redefining the key actors in the Egyptian authorities at that time: Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian Military. As new photos play an important role in promoting certain political aspects, the current study examines the Al Jazeera’s feature stories photos on this event. In doing so, the study synthesizes Appraisal theory wi…
The Invisible Hand of Uber in Cairo
This article analyses the Uber driver interface in Cairo, Egypt, as a site of labour governance, operating through semiotic nudging and gamified affordances. Adopting a semio-pragmatic framework, the study examines how the Uber app sustains neoliberal labour ideologies by conflating the boundaries between autonomy and control, flexibility and precarity. Through directive forces, game-like rewards, and behavioural nudges, Uber’s interface function…
‘You Gotta Snipe the Ride While You’re Awake’
This article approaches gig driving both as precarious work and a ‘semiotic surveillance mechanism’ that describes how platform interfaces and drivers’ discourse jointly produce the appearance of choice while making labor increasingly visible, calculable, and governable. Empirically, the article analyzes five Arabic-language YouTube videos produced by Egyptian inDrive drivers, supplemented by a rider-app walkthrough conducted in Cairo to contextu…
A Tapestry of Evolving Signs
Sociology (20 obras) · Art (13 obras) · Epistemology (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Aesthetics (11 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Semiotics (11 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Law (8 obras)