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Migrating servers, elusive users: reconfigurations of the Russian Internet in the post-Sowden era
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Abstract In response to the growing censorship of their national Internet, Russian users, content producers and service providers have developed several resistance tactics. This paper analyzes these tactics with particular attention paid to their materiality. It first addresses the different levels of Intern... view more
In response to the growing censorship of their national Internet, Russian users, content producers and service providers have developed several resistance tactics. This paper analyzes these tactics with particular attention paid to their materiality. It first addresses the different levels of Internet "governance by infrastructure" in Russia, then focuses on the different tactics of individual and collective resistance and concludes by discussing how forms of control enacted at different levels of infrastructure are reconfiguring the geopolitics of the Russian Internet.... view less
Keywords
geopolitics; Internet; governance; digitalization; sovereignty; infrastructure; Russia; Eastern Europe; censorship; resistance; non-violence; user
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Media Politics, Information Politics, Media Law
Free Keywords
Snowden, E.
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 42-53
Journal
Media and Communication, 5 (2017) 1
Issue topic
Post-Snowden Internet policy
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed