Knowledge and legitimacy: the fragility of digital mobilisation in Sudan.
This paper examines digital mobilisation with respect to knowledge production, legitimacy and power in Sudan since new communication and surveillance technologies became widespread. Enthusiasm for digital opposition peaked with the Arab Spring and troughed through the repressive government apparatus...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Eastern African Studies Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 35 - 54 |
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