In this seminar we will discuss the findings resulting in the book The Internet and Political Protest in Autocracies , written by Nils B. Weidmann and Espen Geelmuyden R?d. Their research has studied this in the context of the Arab Spring.
(There is a form for registration on PRIOs webpage)
Program
PRIO and the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo invites you to this seminar with the following program:
- Social Media and Protest - introduction by Nils B. Weidmann (University of Konstanz) and Espen Geelmuyden R?d (Uppsala University)
- Comments by Jon Nordenson (University of Oslo) and Marianne Dahl (PRIO)
- The seminar will be chaired by H?vard Mokleiv Nyg?rd (PRIO)
- A light lunch will be served from 11:30
About the book:
- Presents a new theory for why the Internet can foster protest but also prevent it
- Introduces a new dataset on political protest in autocracies
- Presents a fine-grained, disaggregated study of political protest at the level of cities in more than 60 autocratic countries
- Illustrates how autocratic control of the population increasingly employs digital tactics