Original
How Exiles Mobilize Domestic Dissent
Abstract
How can exiles mobilize dissent back home? We argue that internet communication technologies enable exiles to play an instigator role in domestic contentious politics. Analyzing the behavior of three types of social media users—influencers, amplifiers, and consumers—we explore how Egyptian exiles participated in a cascade of online dissent that culminated in sizable anti-regime protests in September 2019. Analyses of large-scale digital trace data from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube demonstrate that exiles were central to the introduction and amplification of oppositional content, facilitating its circulation among a domestic audience that then localized the content by linking it with place-based calls for protest. Our findings suggest that content produced and amplified by exiles facilitates coordination among domestic opposition and challenges the supporting role typically ascribed to opposition abroad.
中文
流亡者如何动员国内异议
摘要
流亡者如何动员国内的异议？我们认为，互联网通信技术使流亡者能够在国内抗争政治中扮演煽动者角色。通过分析三类社交媒体用户——影响者、放大者和消费者——的行为，我们探讨了埃及流亡者如何参与一场在线异议的级联，最终在2019年9月引发了规模可观的反政权抗议。对来自Facebook、Google、Twitter和YouTube的大规模数字痕迹数据的分析表明，流亡者在反对性内容的引入和放大中处于核心地位，促进了其在中文国内受众中的传播，而国内受众随后通过将内容与基于地点的抗议呼吁联系起来，使内容本地化。我们的发现表明，流亡者制作并放大的内容促进了国内反对派之间的协调，并挑战了通常赋予海外反对派的辅助性角色。
关键词
流亡者、互联网通信技术、社交媒体、抗争政治、埃及、数字痕迹数据、抗议动员、海外反对派