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The blogging revolution

Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press (2008), vii, 294 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 219-294

ISBN 978-0-522-85490-9 (pbk); 978-0-522-85911-9 (ebook)

"This searching examination explores how the internet is threatening the rule of particularly repressive governments - including China, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Addressing internet censorship, citizen journalism, and the growing popularity of blogging as a means for change, this in-depth analysis provides unique insight into these cultures as well as the latest media technologies." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Getting on the Blogging Bandwagon, 1
Iran: Welcome to the Axis of Evil, 17
Egypt: Challenging a 'Moderate' American Dictatorship, 59
Syria: Dissent behind the Assad Curtain, 93
Saudi Arabia: Blooming Online in a Fundamentalist Desert, 116
Cuba: Blogging away the Castro Blues, 141
China: Punching through the Great Firewall, 173
Afterword, 209