Caged Cairo: Where Journalism is a Crime
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
Phil Howard
Author, ProfessorPost Tagged with: "Egypt"
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Data / Original Data
Data Share: Logged Number of Tweets on #egypt, by Location
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 […]
Academic Articles / Publications
What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring
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 […]
Books / Publications
Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring
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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