Spaiser, V orcid.org/0000-0002-5892-245X, Chadefaux, T, Donnay, K et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Communication Power Struggles on Social Media: A Case Study of the 2011-12 Russian Protests. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 14 (2). pp. 132-153. ISSN 1933-1681
Abstract
In 2011-2012 Russia experienced a wave of mass protests surrounding the Duma and presidential elections. The protests, however, faded shortly after the second election. We study the Russian political discourse on Twitter during this period and the main actors involved: the pro-government camp, the opposition and the general public. We analyse around 700.000 Twitter messages and investigate the social networks of the most active Twitter users. Our analysis shows that pro-government users employed a variety of communication strategies to shift the political discourse and marginalise oppositional voices on Twitter. This demonstrates how authorities can disempower regime critics and successfully manipulate public opinion on social media.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Viktoria Spaiser, Thomas Chadefaux, Karsten Donnay, Fabian Russmann, Dirk Helbing. Published with license by Taylor and Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Communication Power; Social Media; Twitter; Political Discourse; Russia; Natural Language Processing; Protest |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2016 12:31 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2018 00:54 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2017.1308288 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/19331681.2017.1308288 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:109466 |