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Affordance folklore: Truth, community and visibility during Sri Lanka’s Internet shutdowns

New Media & Society

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Abstract

New Media & Society, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 1504-1523, April 2026.
To governments worldwide, Internet shutdowns are the trip-switch solution to civic unrest, and they occur with surprising regularity. In Sri Lanka, Internet shutdowns have been tactically deployed to geo-specific regions and specific platforms on three ...