Online Media and Offline Empowerment in Post-Rebellion Tunisia: An Analysis of Internet Use During Democratic Transition

Breuer, Anita; Groshek, Jacob

doi:10.1080/19331681.2013.850464

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“…By lowering information costs, the Internet can bring attitudinal changes by exposing citizens to alternative sources of information (Breuer and Groshek, 2014; Tang and Huhe, 2014; Ruijgrok, 2017). Specifically, Internet use was found to be associated with greater citizen commitment to democratic norms (Nisbet et al ., 2012) – many democratically oriented citizens are created as they engage in the Internet age (Huhe et al ., 2018).…”

Section: The Internet Political Trust and Regime Typesmentioning

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The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

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Wang

2019

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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The Internet has played important roles in driving political changes around the world. Why does it help to topple political regimes in some places but improve the quality of governance in others? We found Internet usage in general leads to citizens’ distrust in political institutions. Different political environments, however, can condition such trust-eroding impacts of the Internet in significantly different ways. A democracy enables citizens to connect their online behaviors and offline expression and organization, releasing political discontent while facilitating state–society communication. On the contrary, by restricting various forms of off-line expression, authoritarian regimes drive Internet-active citizens' discontent and distrust to higher levels. We use the World Values Survey data to establish these different mechanisms across democracies and authoritarian systems. Entropy balancing shows our findings to be highly robust.

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Section: The Internet Political Trust and Regime Typesmentioning

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The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

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Wang

2019

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…At the macro level, country‐level analyses show positive associations between Internet penetration and either democratization or good governance (e.g., Best and Wade, ; Groshek, ; Khazaeli and Stockemer, ). At the citizen‐level, Internet use promotes democratic mobilization by influencing political interest, knowledge, efficacy, trust, and political participation while decreasing the costs associated with political participation (e.g., Bakker and de Vreese, ; Boulianne, ; Breuer and Groshek, ; Ceron, ; Lei, ; Howard and Hussain, ; Wojcieszak and Smith, ).…”

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A Psychological Firewall? Risk Perceptions and Public Support for Online Censorship in Russia*

Nisbet

Kamenchuk

Dal

2017

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective Authoritarian regimes commonly justify Internet censorship by framing the Internet as a threat to their citizens that must be tightly controlled for their own protection. This threat rhetoric underpins government censorship and creates a “psychological firewall” driving public support for a censored Internet. Methods Based on risk and decision‐making scholarship, we evaluate how mass media and partisan regime support promulgate these threat perceptions, and in turn how they influence citizen attitudes about censorship. Employing Russia as a case study, we tested our hypotheses with a national survey (N = 1,600) conducted in May 2014. Results We found that reliance on Russian national TV news predicted greater Internet threat perceptions, and in turn these threat perceptions significantly increased support for online political censorship. Conclusion Approval of the Putin government further amplified the impact of these threat perceptions on support for censorship. Implications for understanding psychological foundations for support for censorship in authoritarian contexts are discussed.

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“…While a range of recent studies on the use of Internet network during protests and social movement, such as Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, is available (Breuer & Groshek, 2013;Christensen, 2011;Jensen & Bang, 2013), most of the existing studies were performed in the setting of democratic Western societies. The role of the process of bottom-up agenda setting through online media may be therefore culturally sensitive and conditioned by cultural factors and institutional settings.…”

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Use of Microblogs in Grassroots Movements in China: Exploring the Role of Online Networking in Agenda Setting

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Chau

2014

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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Online Media and Offline Empowerment in Post-Rebellion Tunisia: An Analysis of Internet Use During Democratic Transition

Cited by 44 publications

References 39 publications

The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

A Psychological Firewall? Risk Perceptions and Public Support for Online Censorship in Russia*

Use of Microblogs in Grassroots Movements in China: Exploring the Role of Online Networking in Agenda Setting

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