Autocracy and Resistance in the Internet Age
Rachel Vanderhill | | ISBN: 978-1-62637-899-5 $95.00 |
| ISBN: 978-1-62637-919-0 $95.00 |
| 2020/289 pages/LC: 2020024103 |
DESCRIPTION
How do autocratic governments exploit communication technology in their efforts to maintain power? Can prodemocracy activists successfully use that same technology to support the overthrow of autocratic rulers? Rachel Vanderhill addresses these two questions, exploring in detail how social media are both aiding and undermining autocratic regimes in the Middle East, North Africa, and the former Soviet republics.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachel Vanderhill is associate professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at Wofford College.
CONTENTS
- The Revolution Will Be Tweeted ... Or Not?
- Authoritarian Regimes and Information Communication Technology.
- Censorship, Surveillance, and Propaganda: The Cases of Iran and Russia.
- Protest Without Change: The Cases of Armenia and Moldova.
- Regime Overthrow Is Not Democratization: The Cases of Kyrgyzstan and Egypt.
- From Protest to Democratization: The Case of Tunisia.
- Autocracy in the Internet Age.
