{"id":3637,"date":"2024-06-28T11:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:11:56","slug":"shutting-it-down-the-relationship-between-regime-types-and-internet-shutdowns-during-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/06\/28\/shutting-it-down-the-relationship-between-regime-types-and-internet-shutdowns-during-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutting it down: The Relationship between Regime Types and Internet Shutdowns during Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Nerissa Muthayan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br \/><strong>Supervisor:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Nerissa Muthayan - Shutting it down:  The relationship between Regimes Types and Internet....\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXc_EEGTD0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>The principles of democracy are crumbling, as the internet is becoming more censored.&nbsp; Internet shutdowns during elections are detrimental to democracy and indicate a dangerous disregard for human rights and effective governance.&nbsp; This study examined the relationship between regime types and internet shutdowns during elections.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1498\" height=\"956\" src=\"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Nerissa-Muthayan.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Nerissa-Muthayan.png 1498w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Nerissa-Muthayan-600x383.png 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Nerissa-Muthayan-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Nerissa-Muthayan-1024x654.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Nerissa-Muthayan-768x490.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1498px) 100vw, 1498px\" \/><\/figure><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0Nerissa Muthayan, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor:\u00a0\u00a0Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The principles of democracy are crumbling, as the internet is becoming more censored.&nbsp; Internet shutdowns during elections are detrimental to democracy and indicate a dangerous disregard for human rights and effective governance.&nbsp; This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}