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A Cyberconflict Analysis Of The Arab Spring Uprisings, Athina Karatzogianni
A Cyberconflict Analysis Of The Arab Spring Uprisings, Athina Karatzogianni
Athina Karatzogianni
A cyberconflict perspective on the Arab Spring focuses in the first instance on the environment of cyberconflict. This includes situating the different countries swept by the Arab Spring in the world-systemic, geopolitical and international relations context, and the regional, and national socio-political and economic positions and relationships these countries have historically held. To put it simply then, this addresses the impact of the similarities and differences and identifies the common threads in the diffusion and spread of the uprisings across so many different settings. This is in addition to the obvious social media acceleration, diffusion and transnationalism hypothesis, which is …