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Democracy's fourth wave? [electronic resource] : digital media and the Arab Spring / Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain.
By: Howard, Philip N
Series: Oxford studies in digital politics: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource : illISBN: 9780199333080 (ebook) :Subject(s): Arab Spring, 2010- | Information technology -- Political aspects -- Arab countries | Internet -- Political aspects -- Arab countries | Internet -- Social aspects -- Arab countries | Revolutions -- Arab countries -- History -- 21st century | Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 21st centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780199936953DDC classification: 909.097492708312 LOC classification: JQ1850.A91 | H68 2013Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: In 2011, the international community watched as citizens mobilized through the Internet and digital media to topple three of the world's most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia Mubarak in Egypt, and Qaddafi in Libya. This book examines not only the unexpected evolution of events during the Arab Spring but the longer history of desperate - and creative - digital activism through the Arab world.
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In 2011, the international community watched as citizens mobilized through the Internet and digital media to topple three of the world's most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia Mubarak in Egypt, and Qaddafi in Libya. This book examines not only the unexpected evolution of events during the Arab Spring but the longer history of desperate - and creative - digital activism through the Arab world.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Mar. 12, 2013).
Includes bibliographical references and index.