ABSTRACT
This chapter will apply the concept of imagined affordances to an analysis of natively digital women’s issues that emerge in the contexts of blogs from and on women’s issues in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Blogs, although now almost a thing of the past, are important repositories of information about women’s issues, discussions and activities in these two countries and deserve more attention. Although most of the blogs discussed in this chapter have been abandoned and blogging has now been supplanted by a more intense and intensive use of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, this chapter will highlight why these platforms represent an important source of ‘history’ in the articulation and enactment of natively digital women’s issues. In this chapter I will also present the results of blog discussions identified in both countries and discuss the findings.
