State Power 2.0: Authoritarian Entrenchment and Political Engagement Worldwide
What causes state-powers to block internet access, disable digital networks or even shut off internet access? How is it done, what is the impact and how do dissidents attempt to fight back? In this timely and accessible volume a collection of high profile, international scholars answer these key questions using cases from Israel, Iran, Russia.
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Information Infrastructure and Social Control
Origins of the Tunisian Internet / Katherine Maher and Jillian C. York
Censorship and Dissent in Post-Revolutionary Iran / Babak Rahimi
Information Infrastructure and Anti-Regime Protests in Iran and Tunisia / Matthew Carrieri, Ronald J. Deibert, and Saad Omar Khan
Digital Occupation in Gaza's High-Tech Enclosure / Helga Tawil-Souri
Leveraged Affordances and the Specter of Structural Violence / David Karpf and Steven Livingston
Digital Media and Political Engagement
Technology-Induced Innovation in the Making and Consolidation of Arab Democracy / Imad Salamey
Al-Masry Al-Youm and Egypt's New Media Ecology / David M. Faris
Communicating Politics in Kuwait / Fahed Al-Sumait
Social Media and Soft Political Change in Morocco / Mohammed Ibahrine
Leninist Lapdogs to Bothersome Bloggers in Vietnam / Catherine McKinley and Anya Schiffrin / Dynamics of Innovation and the Balance of Power in Russia / Gregory Asmolov
Anonymous vs. Authoritarianism / Jessica L. Beyer
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