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Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book) by Marc F. Plattner; Larry Jay Diamond; is a politics available to read on EtoBox.

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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. While such “liberation technology” has been instrumental in fre

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Marc F. Plattner; Larry Jay Diamond;
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781421406985
Category
politics
Subjects
Sociology, Political Science, Government & Politics
Updated
2026-03-25

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