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The Dictators’ Digital Dilemma: When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks?
This Policy Paper appears on the Brookings Website. When do governments decide to interfere with the Internet, and why? While many observers celebrate the creative use of digital media by activists and civil society leaders, there are a significant number of incidents involving government-led Internet shutdowns. Governments have offered a [...]
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Seattle Times: The Real Success in the Tunisian Elections is an Authentic, Democratic Process
(This appeared as an OpEd entitled “The Real Success in the Tunisian Elections is an Autthentic, Democratic Process” in the Seattle Times. TUNISIA, a country that had never experienced democracy, held a successful election last week. This was the first election of the Arab Spring, and the first in an [...]
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Reuters: The Upside Downside of Social Media Protests
(This originally appeared as “The Upside Downside of Social Media Protests” on the Reuters Commentary Wire.) In Bahrain, Iran and Syria, tough rulers are using social media to entrap activists and crowd source the identity of people who attend protests. After Anders Breivik’s massacre in Norway, flash mobs in Philadelphia [...]
Academic Articles
When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks?
Howard, Philip N., Muzammil Hussain, and Sheetal Agarwal. “When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks?” The Communication Review 14, no. 2 (2011): 216-232. Although there have been many studies of the different ways regimes censor the use of social media by their citizens, shutting off social media altogether is something [...]
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