Muzammil M Hussain

Biographic Data

ID4383654
NAMEMuzammil M Hussain
GIVEN NAMESMuzammil M
FAMILY NAMEHussain
SIGNATUREHUSSAIN M M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS139
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Constructing a Data‐Driven Society: China's Social Credit System as a State Surveillance Infrastructure

    Open AccessFan Liang, Vishnupriya Das et al.ARTICLEPolicy & Internet2018

    Big data technologies have been adopted by both the public and private sectors to develop and expand surveillance capacities. This article traces the institutional processes and political‐economic interests of the public and private stakeholders involved in the construction of China's Social Credit System (SCS), which is currently on track for full deployment on 1.4 billion citizens by 2020. The SCS aims to centralize data platforms into a big da…

  • Three Arenas for Interrogating Digital Politics in Middle East Affairs

    Open AccessMuzammil Hussain, Muzammil M Hussain et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal Middle East…2015References: 1

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  • Democracy’s Fourth Wave?: Digital Media and the Arab Spring

    Philip N Howard, Muzammil Hussain et al.BOOKDemocracy's Fourth Wave?2013

    "Did digital media really "cause" the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy's fourth wave? An unlikely network of citizens used digital media to start a cascade of social protest that ultimately toppled four of the world's most entrenched dictators. Howard and Hussain find that the complex causal recipe includes several economic, political and cultural factors, but that digital media is consiste…

  • What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

    Open AccessMuzammil Hussain, Muzammil M Hussain et al.ARTICLEInternational Studies Review2013

    It has been 15 years since the last wave of democratization. But as a region, North Africa and the Middle East were noticeably devoid of popular democracy movements—until the early months of 2011. Democratization movements had existed long before technologies like mobile phones and the Internet came to these countries. But with these technologies, people sharing an interest in democracy built extensive networks and activated collective action mov…

  • Democracy's Fourth Wave: Digital Media and the Arab Spring

    Philip N Howard, Muzammil M HussainBOOKDemocracy's Fourth Wave?2013

  • News and Political Entertainment Effects on Democratic Citizenship

    Open AccessPatricia Moy, Michael A Xenos et al.CHAPTER2012

    For decades, political communication scholars have sought to better understand the various impacts of mediated communication on political behaviors that constitute the essence of democratic citizenship. Focusing on the key concepts of voter turnout, political participation, civic engagement, and political conversation, this chapter explores how various forms of media content shape individuals' political behaviors. It examines the extent to which …

  • Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Information Technologies and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

    Open AccessMuzammil M Hussain, Philip N HowardARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2012

  • Journalism’s digital disconnect: The growth of campaign content and entertainment gatekeepers in viral political information

    Open AccessMuzammil Hussain, Muzammil M HussainARTICLEJournalism2012Cited by: 3References: 10

    There is much concern about the long-tail of online political information that now competes with standard news content. Yet we know little about how successfully it does so, and why. From the 2008 US presidential campaign, I develop a rich, original meta-database to map the relationships between the top viral election videos (278 million views) and the known-universe of blogs that linked to them (13,000 links). Through a mixed-method analysis of …

  • Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?

    Open AccessPhilip N Howard, Aiden Duffy et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2011

  • When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks? Regime Responses to the Political Uses of Social Media

    Philip N Howard, Sheetal D Agarwal et al.ARTICLEThe Communication Review2011

    Although there have been many studies of the different ways regimes censor the use of social media by their citizens, shutting off social media altogether is something that rarely happens. However, it happens at the most politically sensitive times and has widespread—if not global—consequences for political, economic and cultural life. When do states disconnect their digital networks, and why? To answer this question, the authors build an event h…

  • The Upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia: The Role of Digital Media

    Open AccessPhilip N Howard, Muzammil Hussain et al.ARTICLEJournal of democracy2011Cited by: 136

    During the "Arab Spring," young tech savvy activists led uprisings in a dozen countries across North Africa and the Middle East. At first, digital media allowed democratization movements to develop new tactics for catching dictators off guard. Eventually, authoritarian governments worked social media into their own counter-insurgency strategies. What have we learned about the role of digital media in modern protest? Digital media helped to turn i…