“We Will All Get in Trouble”: Outsourced Relational Repression and the High Stakes of Disclosing Activism in Authoritarian Azerbaijan

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Katy E. Pearce University of Washington, Seattle, USAKaty E. Pearce is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and holds affiliations with the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies and the Center for an Informed Public. Her research focuses on social and political uses of technologies and digital content in the transitioning democracies and semi-authoritarian states of the South Caucasus and Central Asia, but primarily Armenia and Azerbaijan. She is the chair of the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association and an associate editor at the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

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