This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule. By breaking up the causal chain into various steps, it provides a thorough and nuanced understanding of internet’s role in different stages of the mobilization process. It argues that the impact of internet use on anti-governmental protesting differs per step in the ‘mobilization chain’, and also that the effect depends on both the on- and offline repression of the regim...
قائمة المحتويات
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Mobilisation Chain under Authoritarian Rule.- Chapter 3. The Direct Effect of Internet Use on Anti-Government Protest.- Chap...
عن المؤلف
Kris Ruijgrok is Lecturer at the PPLE Multi-Disciplinary Institute (Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.