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Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent

Event description
This new book examines how citizens in Ukraine and Russia understand the affordances of social media for public discontent.
About this Event
This new book examines how citizens use digital social media to engage in public discontent and offers a critical examination of the hybrid reality of protest where bodies, spaces and technologies resonate. It argues that the augmented reality of protest goes beyond the bodies, the tents, and the cobblestones in the protest square, incorporating live streams, different time zones, encrypted conversations, and simultaneous translation of protest updates into different languages. Based on more than 60 interviews with protest participants and ethnographic analysis of online content in Ukraine and Russia, it examines how citizens in countries with limited media freedom and corrupt authorities perceive the affordances of digital media for protest and how these enable or limit protest action.

Ukraine , Moscow , Moskva , Russia , Ireland , Washington , United-states , Dublin-city , Irish , Tanya-lokot , School-of-communications , Communication-society