Of Blackouts and Bandhs: The Strategy and Structure of Disconnected Protest in India

• In Event: Taiwan, Israel, and India Case Studies in Information and Communication

Brief Overview

Using the case of India, I statistically test a theory of ‘disconnective action’ to examine how the structure and strategy (violence vs. non-violence) of collective action are transformed by a digital information vacuum (network shutdown).

Author

• Jan Andrzej Rydzak, Stanford University