Philip N. Howard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, with adjunct appointments at the Jackson School of International Studies and the Information School. Muzammil M. Hussain is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at the University of Washington and Visiting Scientist at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich.

• List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Acknowledgements ; Dedication ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Digital Media and the Arab Spring ; Chapter 2: The Recent History of Digital Media and Dissent ; Chapter 3: Information Infrastructure and the Organization of Protest ; Chapter 4: Authoritarian Responses and Consequences ; Chapter 5: Al Jazeera, Social Media, and Digital Journalism ; Conclusion: Digital Media and the Rhythms of Social Change ; References ; Endnotes ; Index

Democracy's Fourth Wave? guides readers through the avalanche of factors that meshed with digital media to produce the Arab Spring. The authors subtly adapt traditional methodologies to decode mysteries of complex causal effects. In doing so, their book brings clarity and insight to the conundrums of new technologies as factors in regime fragility and protest success.

Philip N. Howard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, with adjunct appointments at the Jackson School of International Studies and the Information School. Muzammil M. Hussain is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at the University of Washington and Visiting Scientist at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich.

• List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Acknowledgements ; Dedication ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Digital Media and the Arab Spring ; Chapter 2: The Recent History of Digital Media and Dissent ; Chapter 3: Information Infrastructure and the Organization of Protest ; Chapter 4: Authoritarian Responses and Consequences ; Chapter 5: Al Jazeera, Social Media, and Digital Journalism ; Conclusion: Digital Media and the Rhythms of Social Change ; References ; Endnotes ; Index

Democracy's Fourth Wave? guides readers through the avalanche of factors that meshed with digital media to produce the Arab Spring. The authors subtly adapt traditional methodologies to decode mysteries of complex causal effects. In doing so, their book brings clarity and insight to the conundrums of new technologies as factors in regime fragility and protest success.

Philip N. Howard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, with adjunct appointments at the Jackson School of International Studies and the Information School. Muzammil M. Hussain is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at the University of Washington and Visiting Scientist at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich.

• List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Acknowledgements ; Dedication ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Digital Media and the Arab Spring ; Chapter 2: The Recent History of Digital Media and Dissent ; Chapter 3: Information Infrastructure and the Organization of Protest ; Chapter 4: Authoritarian Responses and Consequences ; Chapter 5: Al Jazeera, Social Media, and Digital Journalism ; Conclusion: Digital Media and the Rhythms of Social Change ; References ; Endnotes ; Index

Democracy's Fourth Wave? guides readers through the avalanche of factors that meshed with digital media to produce the Arab Spring. The authors subtly adapt traditional methodologies to decode mysteries of complex causal effects. In doing so, their book brings clarity and insight to the conundrums of new technologies as factors in regime fragility and protest success.