'Anti-Regime Influentials' Across Platforms: A Case Study of the Free Navalny Protests in Russia

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العنوان: 'Anti-Regime Influentials' Across Platforms: A Case Study of the Free Navalny Protests in Russia
المؤلفون: Glazunova, Sofya, Amadoru, Malmi
المصدر: Media and Communication, 11, 3, 187-202, Social Media's Role in Political and Societal Mobilization
بيانات النشر: PRT, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
مصطلحات موضوعية: Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen, Politikwissenschaft, News media, journalism, publishing, Political science, Navalny, digital platforms, non-systemic opposition, Wirkungsforschung, Rezipientenforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur, interaktive, elektronische Medien, Impact Research, Recipient Research, Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture, Interactive, electronic Media, Russland, Soziale Medien, politischer Einfluss, Opposition, Propaganda, politische Bewegung, politisches Regime, Protestbewegung, Russia, social media, political influence, opposition, propaganda, political movement, political regime, protest movement
الوصف: The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022 has put the future of the Russian opposition further at stake. The new limitations towards political, internet, and press freedoms have led to a severe disintegration of the anti-regime movement in Russia, including its leaders like Alexey Navalny. Digital platforms had previously hosted anti-Kremlin narratives online and played a role in the facilitation of Russian anti-regime protests. The latest scalable anti-regime rallies to date were the Free Navalny protests, caused by the imprisonment of Navalny in 2021. Digital platforms strengthened the voice of the Russian regime critics; however, their growing visibility online caused further suppression in the country. To understand this paradox, we ask which main anti-regime communicators were influential in the protests’ discussions on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, and how platform features have facilitated their influence during the Free Navalny protests. We develop a multi-platform methodological workflow comprising network analysis, social media analytics, and qualitative methods to map the Russian anti-regime publics and identify its opinion leaders. We also evaluate the cultures of use of platforms and their features by various Russian anti-regime communicators seeking high visibility online. We distinguish between contextual and feature cultures of platform use that potentially aid the popularity of such actors and propose to cautiously confer the mobilisation and democratisation potential to digital platforms under growing authoritarianism.
نوع الوثيقة: Zeitschriftenartikel
journal article
تدمد: 2183-2439
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6643
URL الوصول: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/88398
حقوق: Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0
رقم الأكسشن: edsgso.88398
قاعدة البيانات: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
الوصف
تدمد:21832439
DOI:10.17645/mac.v11i3.6643