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Title:

Liberation technology : social media and the struggle for democracy / edited by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xxvii, 176 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Political participation--Technological innovations.
Democratization--Technological innovations.
Social media--Political aspects.

Other Authors:

Diamond, Larry Jay.
Plattner, Marc F., 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Larry Diamond -- Liberation technology / Larry Diamond -- Liberation vs. control : the future of cyberspace / Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski -- International mechanisms of cyberspace controls / Ronald Deibert -- Whither Internet control? / Evgeny Morozov -- The battle for the Chinese Internet / Xiao Qiang -- China's "networked authoritarianism" / Rebecca MacKinnon -- Ushahidi as a liberation technology / Patrick Meier -- Egypt and Tunisia : the role of digital media / Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain -- Circumventing Internet censorship in the Arab world / Walid Al-Saqaf -- Social media, dissent, and Iran's Green Movement / Mehdi Yahyanejad and Elham Gheytanchi -- Challenges for international policy / Daniel Calingaert.

Series:

A journal of democracy book

ISBN:

9781421406985 (electronic)
1421406985 (electronic)
9781421405681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1421405687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781421405674 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1421405679 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)761858951

LCCN:

2012012206

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)