Howard, Philip N.

Democracy's fourth wave? digital media and the Arab Spring / [electronic resource] : Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource : ill. - Oxford studies in digital politics . - Oxford studies in digital politics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780199333080 (ebook) : No price


Arab Spring, 2010-
Information technology--Political aspects--Arab countries.
Internet--Political aspects--Arab countries.
Internet--Social aspects--Arab countries.
Revolutions--History--Arab countries--21st century.


Arab countries--Politics and government--21st century.

JQ1850.A91 / H68 2013

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