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Egyptianization: Culture Hacking As A Method, Hadeer Omar
Egyptianization: Culture Hacking As A Method, Hadeer Omar
Theses and Dissertations
In a broad sense, cultures undergo a metamorphoses due to the external influences and systems impacting the evolution of internal identities. Conversely, Individuals within cultures react to those external influences and systems.The act of hacking a culture is an opportunity to challenge an existing or imported system in order to bring about change and improvement. An aspect of culture hacking is to create messages of satire or irony in order to criticize, or completely reject established systems within cultures.
Post Arab spring, Egyptians practiced culture hacking by applying their cultural tools to external systems and influences, producing a process of …