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Roberts, Joseph W.

Joseph W. Roberts is Assistant Professor of Political Science at RogerWilliams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Utah.

How the Internet is Changing the Practice of Politics in the Middle East: Political Protest, New Social Movements, and Electronic Samizdat
2009 0-7734-4734-2
This work examines the socio-economic and socio-political factors that make modern information technology a useful and viable tool for expatriate political and social movements in dealing with the rigid state control of the traditional media in the Middle East.