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100			_aSchuler, Paul and Truong, Mai _931898
245			_aConnected countryside: The inhibiting effect of social media on rural social movements
260			_aComparative Politics
300			_a52(4), Jul, 2020: p.647-670
520			_aWhile much research focuses on social media and urban movements, almost no research explores its potentially divergent effects in rural areas. Building on recent work emphasizing the multidimensional effects of online communication on vertical and horizontal information, we argue that while the Internet may facilitate urban movements, it inhibits rural movements. Because social media increases vertical information flows between government and citizens, the central government responds quickly to rural protests, preventing such protests from developing into a large-scale movement. By contrast, social media does less to change the vertical information flows in urban areas. We explore the plausibility of our argument by process tracing the evolution of protests in urban and rural areas in Vietnam in the pre-and post-Internet eras. Our theory addresses a critically overlooked effect of social media within authoritarian regimes. – Reproduced
650			_aSocial movement, Vietnam, Social media, Protest, Authoritarian regimes _929139
773			_aComparative Politics
906			_aSOCIAL MOVEMENT
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