Repression Reloaded: Digital Disinformation and the New Terrain of Protest Politics

• In Event: Social Movement, Protest and Political Violence: State Repression and its Effects

Brief Overview

This study examines how disaggregated metrics of digital repression—specifically disinformation, internet shutdowns, and surveillance—shape offline protest mobilization in non-democratic regimes.

Author

• Samuel Olufeso, University of Massachusetts, Lowell