Democracy's Fourth Wave?: Digital Media and the Arab Spring

by Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain

Book Overview

Did digital media really "cause" the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy's fourth wave? An unlikely network of citizens used digital media to start a cascade of social protest that ultimately toppled four of the world's most entrenched dictators. Howard and Hussain find that the complex causal recipe includes several economic, political and cultural factors, but that digital media is consistently...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199936978
• ISBN13: 9780199936977
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"