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After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State

Lynch, Marc·2011·Perspectives on Politics
DOI 10.1017/s1537592711000910
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The uprisings which swept across the Arab world beginning in December 2010 pose a serious challenge to many of the core findings of the political science literature focused on the durability of the authoritarian Middle Eastern state. The impact of social media on contentious politics represents one of the many areas which will require significant new thinking. The dramatic change in the information environment over the last decade has changed individual competencies, the ability to organize for collective action, and the transmission of information from the local to the international level. It has also strengthened some of the core competencies of authoritarian states even as it has undermined others. The long term evolution of a new kind of public sphere may matter more than immediate political outcomes, however. Rigorous testing of competing hypotheses about the impact of the new social media will require not only conceptual development but also the use of new kinds of data analysis not traditionally adopted in Middle East area studies.

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  1. Zuckerman, 2011, The First Twitter Revolution?, Foreign Policy
  2. Lynch, 2006, Voices of the New Arab Public: Al-Jazeera, Iraq, and Arab Politics Today
  3. Latar Noam , Asmolov Gregory , and Gekker Alex . 2010. State Cyber Advocacy. Working Paper for the Tenth Annual Herzliya Conference. (http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_Uploads/3035Newmediafinal.pdf), accessed March 8, 2011.
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  5. Tarrow, 1996, Contentious Politics
  6. Wheeler, 2006, The Internet in the Middle East
  7. Aday, 2010, Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics

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Authors
Lynch, M.
Affiliations
George Washington University (US)
Corresponding author
Lynch, Marc
ORCID
Lynch, Marc
Venue
Perspectives on Politics
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2011-06
Volume
9
Issue
2
Pages
301-310
ISSN
  • 1537-5927 (ISSN-L)
  • 1541-0986
DOI
10.1017/s1537592711000910
OpenAlex
W2132282266
Cited by
388
References
52
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 38 · 2014: 35 · 2013: 38 · 2012: 19
FWCI
101.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 2 d)
Locations
Perspectives on Politics (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East Politics and Society
Keywords
Arab Spring, social media, authoritarianism, Arab world, online political mobilization, collective action, information environment, public sphere, contentious politics, Egypt

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