Liberation Technology Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy

Name: Liberation Technology Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
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ISBN: 9781421405681

ISBN-10: 1421405687

ISBN-13: 9781421405681

Edition: 2012

Authors: Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner

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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. Yet while technology has been instrumental in freeing Egypt and Tunisia (earning it the label "liberation technology"), other cases—such as China and Iran—demonstrate that it can be deployed just as effectively by authoritarian regimes seeking to control the…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Liberation vs. Control in Cyberspace



Liberation Technology




Liberation vs. Control: The Future of Cyberspace




International Mechanisms of Cyberspace Controls




Whither Internet Control?




Liberation Technology in China



The Battle for the Chinese Internet




China's "Networked Authoritarianism"




Liberation Technology in the Middle East



Ushahidi as a Liberation Technology




Egypt and Tunisia: The Role of Digital Media




Circumventing Internet Censorship in the Arab World




Social Media, Dissent, and Iran's Green Movement




Policy Recommendations



Challenges for International Policy



Index