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<p>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. </p><p>While such “liberation technology” has been instrumen

Who reads Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book)?

Author

Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421405674

Category

politics

Subjects

Sociology, History, Political Science

Rating

3.55 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13