Which came first, the Tweety or the Egg? The Backfire Effects of Repression Online
The 2017 Catalan independence referendum on the first of October was both a transformative event for the Catalan independence movement and the beginning of Spain’s constitutional crisis. The actions by the Spanish government could be described as repressive, but did audiences online interpret it as such? Protest and resistance, on the streets and online, criticising the government’s actions are ev