Holding Back The Flood: Regimes of Censorship in the Middle East & North Africa in Comparative Perspective

In order to investigate the relationship between censorship and popular uprisings, I survey trends in repression of information across Iran and the Arab states of the Middle East & North Africa over several decades to see if the recent wave of popular mobilization appears to respond to change...

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Published in:	Global Media Journal: German Edition
Main Author:	Edward Webb
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	Berlin Universities Publishing 2012-05-01
Subjects:	censorship media Arab world revolution social movements mobilization Middle East North Africa authoritarianism
Online Access:	http://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-25469/GMJ3_EdWebb_final.pdf