Democracy's Fourth Wave? by Philip N Howard
In 2011, the international community watched as citizens mobilized through the Internet and digital media to topple three of the world's most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, and Qaddafi in Libya. This book examines not only the unexpected evolution of events during the Arab Spring, but the longer history of desperate-and creative-digital activism through the Arab world.-
The Hybrid Media System
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We Tried to Tell Y'All
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Trolling Ourselves to Death
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Computational Propaganda
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Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era
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If...Then
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Tweeting Scared
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The Ubiquitous Presidency
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Risk and Hyperconnectivity
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Money Code Space
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When the Nerds Go Marching In
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The Citizen Marketer
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The Only Constant is Change
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The Civic Organization and the Digital Citizen
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Prototype Politics
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Networked Publics and Digital Contention
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Apostles of Certainty
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Designing for Democracy
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Analytic Activism
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Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age
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Using Technology, Building Democracy
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Bits and Atoms
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Tweeting to Power
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Expect Us
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Taking Our Country Back
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The Internet and Political Protest in Autocracies
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Digital Cities
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News on the Internet
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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
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The MoveOn Effect
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China's Digital Nationalism
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Digital Feminist Activism
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Observed Correction
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Outside the Bubble
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Hacking Hybrid Media
Democracy's Fourth Wave? guides readers through the avalanche of factors that meshed with digital media to produce the Arab SpringThe authors subtly adapt traditional methodologies to decode mysteries of complex causal effects. In doing so, their book brings clarity and insight to the conundrums of new technologies as factors in regime fragility and protest success. * Monroe E. Price, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania *
This unprecedented multidisciplinary approach to the examination of the Arab Spring situates itself in digital revolutions and political transformations. I highly recommend it for students, activists, and policy makers seeking to understand how modern communication technologies are driving the Fourth Wave of Democracy in the Arab world. * Imad Salamey, Associate Professor of Political Science, Lebanese American University *
This book represents the first serious effort to transcend the polarized debate between cyber-utopians and tech-skeptics regarding digital media's role in the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Carefully argued and documented, it is of landmark importance and should be required reading for all those who seek to understand the interface of technology and political change and the future of democratization. * Peter Mandaville, George Mason University, author of Global Political Islam *
Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain's study implies that... digital media played a much longer term role in creating favorable conditions for uprisings, helped to publicize key igniting events, and then facilitated those uprisings and their diffusion; but digital media did not do this alone or as suddenly as some observers have claimed... There are a number of other unique contributions, but there is insufficient space to review them all. Overall, I predict that future research will look kindly to the authors' key findings, particularly the book's central claim that digital media were one essential ingredient in larger casual recipes for revolution and democratization. * Political Science Quarterly *
This unprecedented multidisciplinary approach to the examination of the Arab Spring situates itself in digital revolutions and political transformations. I highly recommend it for students, activists, and policy makers seeking to understand how modern communication technologies are driving the Fourth Wave of Democracy in the Arab world. * Imad Salamey, Associate Professor of Political Science, Lebanese American University *
This book represents the first serious effort to transcend the polarized debate between cyber-utopians and tech-skeptics regarding digital media's role in the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Carefully argued and documented, it is of landmark importance and should be required reading for all those who seek to understand the interface of technology and political change and the future of democratization. * Peter Mandaville, George Mason University, author of Global Political Islam *
Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain's study implies that... digital media played a much longer term role in creating favorable conditions for uprisings, helped to publicize key igniting events, and then facilitated those uprisings and their diffusion; but digital media did not do this alone or as suddenly as some observers have claimed... There are a number of other unique contributions, but there is insufficient space to review them all. Overall, I predict that future research will look kindly to the authors' key findings, particularly the book's central claim that digital media were one essential ingredient in larger casual recipes for revolution and democratization. * Political Science Quarterly *
Philip N. Howard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, with adjunct appointments at the Jackson School of International Studies and the Information School. Muzammil M. Hussain is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at the University of Washington and Visiting Scientist at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199936953 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199936951 |
| Title | Democracy's Fourth Wave? |
| Author | Philip N Howard |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Digital Politics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2013-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 162 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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