Thank you to the colleagues, students, journalists, policy professionals and interested members of the public who came to watch my coauthor Muzammil Hussain (@m_m_hussain) and I launch Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring. For those who are interested, here is the Prezi that we used for several of [...]
Thank you to the colleagues, students, journalists, policy professionals and interested members of the public who came to watch my coauthor Muzammil Hussain (@m_m_hussain) launch Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring. For those who are interested, here is the Prezi that we used for several of the [...]
It has been 15 years since the last wave of democratization. But as a region, North Africa and the Middle East were noticeably devoid of popular democracy movements—until the early months of 2011. Democratization movements had existed long before technologies like mobile phones and the Internet came to these countries. But [...]
Extensive interview about latest book: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jOo8ooJlQO1JJegyGHyt0EfG4kiA?docId=CNG.2f0283cf2a3e62330d534900dcb74d83.171
Now in print! (And byte). Did digital media really “cause” the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy’s fourth wave? An unlikely network of citizens used digital media to start a cascade of social protest that ultimately toppled four of the [...]
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