Investigating the structure of global Internet connectedness, Seo and Thorson XXXXXXXXXXmeasured structural changes in bandwidth and the centrality of digital nodes in the Middle East and North...

Investigating the structure of global Internet connectedness, Seo and Thorson (2012) measured structural changes in bandwidth and the centrality of digital nodes in the Middle East and North Africa. They showed that between 2002 and 2010, several countries in the Middle East rose to prominence, linking strong intraregional networks.