Post Tagged with: "Egypt"

In The News / Interviewed / Video

Caged Cairo: Where Journalism is a Crime

on July 21, 2014 at 7:10 am ×

Contributed to documentary on arrested journalists in Egypt.     http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2014/06/caged-cairo-where-journalism-crime-2014628115412729805.html#.U7EsJtLN28A.twitter

Data Share: Logged Number of Tweets on #egypt, by Location
Data / Original Data

Data Share: Logged Number of Tweets on #egypt, by Location

on May 12, 2014 at 9:07 am ×

Here are the aggregated numbers for daily tweets of #egypt at a critical moment during the Egyptian uprising of early 2011.  This information is analyzed in the report Howard, Philip N., and Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, Muzammil Hussain, Will Mari, and Marwa Mazaid. “Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During […]

What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring
Academic Articles / Publications

What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

on April 18, 2013 at 11:59 am ×

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 […]

Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring
Books / Publications

Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring

on February 23, 2013 at 8:08 am ×

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 world’s most entrenched dictators. Howard […]

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