Broadband internet and protests: Evidence from the Occupy movement

Guilherme Amorim, Rafael Lima and Breno Sampaio

Information Economics and Policy, 2022, vol. 60, issue C

Abstract: This paper investigates the influence of broadband internet availability in the occurrence of events of civil unrest. Using collected data on 2011’s Occupy Movement in the U.S., we find that each new Internet Service Provider (which is associated to an increase in broadband penetration) accounts for an increase between 1 and 3 p.p. in the probability of observing protests in a given location. Results are consistent when analyzing county-level data for the contiguous U.S., for each different U.S. region separately (Northeast, Midwest, South and West), and when analyzing city-level data for California.

Keywords: Internet; Civic engagement; Protests; Occupy movement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 D74 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100982

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