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dc.contributor.authorWAGNER, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-07T13:16:33Z
dc.date.available2014-04-07T13:16:33Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationTelecommunications Policy, 2012, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 484-492en
dc.identifier.issn1879-3258
dc.identifier.issn0308-5961
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/30917
dc.description.abstractInternet censorship and control have been commonplace in Tunisia since the Internet became available to then public in 1996. It was not until the last days of the Jasmine revolution in January 2011 that the Tunisian government shut down the censorship regime, raising numerous questions about Internet censorship in Tunisia. This article will look at how former Tunisian president Ben Ali was able to shut down the Internet censorship regime within a matter of hours. In order to answer this question, it looks at the history of the Tunisian Internet and its Internet censorship regime, before analysing Internet architecture, Internet institutions, functional differentiation between elements of the regime and the role of international technology markets. Each of these factors contributes to the overall censorship regime and helps understand how former President Ben Ali was able to shutdown Internet censorship within a matter of hours. In conclusion, tracing the genesis of the Tunisian censorship regime may contribute to understanding the role of institutional, architectural and market-based factors in enabling other censorship regimes across the world.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofTelecommunications Policyen
dc.titlePush-button-autocracy in Tunisia : analysing the role of internet infrastructure, institutions and international markets in creating a Tunisian censorship regimeen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.telpol.2012.04.007
dc.identifier.volume36en
dc.identifier.startpage484en
dc.identifier.endpage492en
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dc.identifier.issue6en


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