Journal article
Digital media and the Arab Spring
- Abstract:
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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
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Bibliographic Details
- 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:
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1086-3214
- ISSN:
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1086-3214
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:631460
- UUID:
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uuid:05e13455-3e16-478b-b0b3-f75b58ef489c
- Local pid:
- pubs:631460
- Source identifiers:
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631460
- Deposit date:
- 2016-07-01
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- Copyright holder:
- National Endowment for Democracy
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
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This is an
accepted manuscript of a journal article published by Johns Hopkins University Press in Journal of Democracy on 2011-07-03, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jod.2011.0041
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