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Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
Larry Diamond
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Description for Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
Paperback. Howard, Muzammil M. Hussain, Rebecca MacKinnon, Patrick Meier, Evgeny Morozov, Xiao Qiang, Rafal Rohozinski, Mehdi Yahyanejad Editor(s): Diamond, Larry; Plattner, Marc F. Series: A Journal of Democracy Book. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JMG; JFD; JPHV; JPW; UBJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation helped spark the massive protests that toppled longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Egypt's "Facebook revolution" forced the ruling regime out of power and into exile. While such "Liberation Technology" has been instrumental in freeing Egypt and Tunisia, other cases - such as China and Iran - demonstrate that it can be deployed just as effectively by authoritarian regimes seeking to control ... Read more
The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation helped spark the massive protests that toppled longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Egypt's "Facebook revolution" forced the ruling regime out of power and into exile. While such "Liberation Technology" has been instrumental in freeing Egypt and Tunisia, other cases - such as China and Iran - demonstrate that it can be deployed just as effectively by authoritarian regimes seeking to control ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
A Journal of Democracy Book
Condition
New
Weight
301g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405681
SKU
V9781421405681
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About Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy.
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