Journal article icon

Journal article

Digital media and the Arab Spring

Abstract:
During the "Arab Spring," young tech savvy activists led uprisings in a dozen countries across North Africa and the Middle East. At first, digital media allowed democratization movements to develop new tactics for catching dictators off guard. Eventually, authoritarian governments worked social media into their own counter-insurgency strategies. What have we learned about the role of digital media in modern protest? Digital media helped to turn individualized, localized, and co... Expand abstract
Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

Actions


Access Document


Files:
Publisher copy:
10.1353/jod.2011.0041

Authors


More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Democracy Journal website
Volume:
22
Issue:
3
Pages:
35-48
Publication date:
2011-07-03
Acceptance date:
2011-05-31
DOI:
EISSN:
1086-3214
ISSN:
1086-3214
Keywords:
Pubs id:
pubs:631460
UUID:
uuid:05e13455-3e16-478b-b0b3-f75b58ef489c
Local pid:
pubs:631460
Source identifiers:
631460
Deposit date:
2016-07-01

Terms of use


Views and Downloads






If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record

TO TOP