The Slow Shutdown: Information and Internet Regulation in Tanzania From 2010 to 2018 and Impacts on Online Content Creators.
A slow shutdown is an ensemble of flexible state regulations implemented over time that have the effect of prohibiting, interrupting, or making too costly online content creation. A slow shutdown differs from a technical shutdown in which a state authority blocks access to the Internet or platforms...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Communication (19328036) Vol. 14; pp. 4288 - 4309 |
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University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press
2020
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