全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP11254 Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP11254
	DP11254 Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia
	Ruben Enikolopov; Alexey Makarin; Maria Petrova
发表日期	2016-05-02
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	Do new communication technologies, such as social media, reduce collective action problem? This paper provides evidence that penetration of VK, the dominant Russian online social network, affected protest activity during a wave of protests in Russia in 2011. As a source of exogenous variation in network penetration, we use information on the city of origin of the students who studied together with the founder of VK, controlling for the city of origin of the students who studied at the same university several years earlier or later. We find that a 10% increase in VK penetration increased the probability of a protest by 4.6%, and the number of protesters by 19%. Additional results suggest that social media has affected protest activity by reducing the costs of coordination, rather than by spreading information critical of the government. In particular, VK penetration increased pro-governmental support and reduced the number of people who were ready to participate in protests right before the protests took place. Also, cities with higher fractionalization of network users between VK and Facebook experienced fewer protests. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that municipalities with higher VK penetration received smaller transfers from the central government after the occurrence of protests.
主题	Development Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Social media Political protests Collective action Impact of technology adoption
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp11254
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540072
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ruben Enikolopov,Alexey Makarin,Maria Petrova. DP11254 Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia. 2016.