Anat Ben-David

Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication, The Open University of Israel

Palestinian Border-Making in Digital Spaces

The dissertation conceptualizes border making online through a historical and spatial analysis of the Palestinian Web, by using digital methods for Web research. It analyzes the emergence and development of the Palestinian Web from the introduction of the Internet in the Palestinian Territories in 1993, immediately after the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority following the Oslo Interim Peace accords, and until 2010.