Violent Suppression of Protest Actions as a Factor of the Spreading of Information about the Protest Movement: Evidence from Russia in 2017-2018

Student: Filippov Ilya

Educational Programme: Applied Politics (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The impact of the violent suppression of a protest episode shapes an important fragment of the relationship between the repressions and development of the protest movement. However, the consequences of the use of force towards protesters remain largely understudied. Using posts and commentaries, collected from the site-social network "Vkontakte" we demonstrated that, in comparison to the communication around the action that ended peacefully, the communication around the action which was suppressed by police included more users, tended to be more centralized and was characterized by more active involvement of users.

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