What causes state-powers to block internet access, disable digital networks or even shut off internet access? How is it done, what is the impact and how do dissidents attempt to fight back? In this timely and accessible volume a collection of high profile, international scholars answer these key questions using cases from Israel, Iran, Russia, Morocco, Vietnam and Kuwait and assess the political economy of the actors, institutions and regimes involved and effected by the state-management and control of digital networks.

Muzammil M. Hussain is Assistant Professor of Global Media Studies at the University of Michigan's Department of Communication Studies, and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research's Center for Political Studies. He tweets from @m_m_hussain. Philip N. Howard is a professor in the School of Public Policy at Central European University . His writings appear at and he tweets from @pnhoward.

Introduction: State Power 2.0, Muzammil M. Hussain, Philip N. Howard, Sheetal D. Agarwal; Part 1 Information Infrastructure and Social Control; Chapter 1 Origins of the Tunisian Internet, Katherine Maher, Jillian C. York; Chapter 2 The State of Digital Exception: Censorship and Dissent in Post-Revolutionary Iran, BabakRahimi; Chapter 3 Information Infrastructure and Anti-Regime Protests in Iran and Tunisia, MatthewCarrieri, Ronald J.Deibert, Saad OmarKhan; Chapter 4 Digital Occupation in Gaza's High-Tech Enclosure, HelgaTawil-Souri; Chapter 5 Leveraged Affordances and the Specter of Structural Violence, DavidKarpf, StevenLivingston; Part 2 Digital Media and Political Engagement; Chapter 6 Technology-Induced Innovation in the Making and Consolidation of Arab Democracy, ImadSalamey; Chapter 7 Al-Masry Al-Youm and Egypt's New Media Ecology, David MFaris; Chapter 8 Communicating Politics in Kuwait, FahedAl-Sumait; Chapter 9 Social Media and Soft Political Change in Morocco, MohammedIbahrine; Chapter 10 Leninist Lapdogs to Bothersome Bloggers in Vietnam, CatherineMcKinley, AnyaSchiffrin; Chapter 11 Dynamics of Innovation and the Balance of Power in Russia, GregoryAsmolov; Chapter 12 Anonymous vs. Authoritarianism, Jessica L.Beyer;