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Divided Publics : Digital Media and Public Participation in Wartime Russia.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zvonareva, Olga.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Digital media can support democracy, freedom and social cohesion, but it can also erode them.This book explores that tension through the stories of grassroots volunteer networks in Russia, which emerged on Telegram after February 2022 to support Ukrainian refugees.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Part I
- Intermezzo 1.1 Politics Beyond the State
- Intermezzo 1.2 Rethinking Politics
- Chapter 1 Healthcare: Politics Otherwise
- Beginning: digitally mediated contingencies
- Tinkering with formats
- Assembling care collective
- Doing care
- Being part of a larger ecology
- Part II Participation
- Intermezzo 2.1 Diversity of Participation
- Intermezzo 2.2 Digital Technologies and Participation
- Chapter 2 A New Ecology of Volunteer Initiatives: Participating by Other Means
- Emergence of three different initiatives
- On the Move
- Another City chat
- Vasilisa
- Settling in different styles of work
- Being systematic versus being responsive
- Being orderly versus being spontaneous
- Being public versus being hidden
- Forming an ecology and filling in gaps
- Part III Publics
- Intermezzo 3.1 Searching for Publics
- Intermezzo 3.2 Publics in the Era of Digitalization
- Chapter 3 'Patriotic' Initiatives and Divided Publics
- Going public
- Extending the state
- Extending the state within Russia
- Extending the state beyond Russia
- Animating ideological formulas
- 'One people'
- The enemy
- Intermezzo 4 Reflections on National Identities
- Chapter 4 A World Less Common
- A note on national identities: the nation multiple
- Participation: de-composing a common world
- Ambivalence of digital media: Telegram as fluid technology
- Appendix Ethical and Methodological Questions
- Ethics
- Vulnerability as a situationally constructed characteristic and process-oriented ethics
- Unexpected findings and the ethics-first approach to confidentiality
- Dealing with emergent and uncontrollable risks
- Methodology
- Pre-research stage
- Data generation
- Data analysis
- References.
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-5535-X
- OCLC:
- 1587073102
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