The Internet and political protest in autocracies
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Bibliographic Information
The Internet and political protest in autocracies
(Oxford studies in digital politics / series editor: Andrew Chadwick)
Oxford University Press, c2019
- : pbk
- : hardcover
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Eight years after the Arab Spring there is still much debate over the link between Internet technology and protest against authoritarian regimes. While the debate has advanced beyond the simple question of whether the Internet is a tool of liberation or one of surveillance and propaganda, theory and empirical data attesting to the circumstances under which technology benefits autocratic governments versus opposition activists is scarce. In this book, Nils B. Weidmann
and Espen Geelmuyden Rod offer a broad theory about why and when digital technology is used for one end or another, drawing on detailed empirical analyses of the relationship between the use of Internet technology and protest in autocracies. By leveraging new sub-national data on political protest
and Internet penetration, they present analyses at the level of cities in more than 60 autocratic countries. The book also introduces a new methodology for estimating Internet use, developed in collaboration with computer scientists and drawing on large-scale observations of Internet traffic at the local level. Through this data, the authors analyze political protest as a process that unfolds over time and space, where the effect of Internet technology varies at different stages of protest.
They show that violent repression and government institutions affect whether Internet technology empowers autocrats or activists, and that the effect of Internet technology on protest varies across different national environments.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Political Mobilization in Autocracies in the Digital Age
Chapter 3: Internet Technology and Political Protest
Chapter 4: Coding Protest Events in Autocracies
Chapter 5: From Event Reports to Protest Analysis
Chapter 6: Internet Coverage and the Occurrence of Protest
Chapter 7: Internet Coverage and the Temporal Dynamics of Protest
Chapter 8: The Internet and the Spatial Diffusion of Protest
Chapter 9: Reinforcement or Substitution? Internet and Protest across Different Autocracies
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"