Abstract
Online communication platforms have rapidly become a substantial element of e-governance processes in Europe and beyond. Today, research has shown that, in cases of social unrest and/or emergency, political actors responsible for their resolution are able to efficiently use microblogging platforms (including Twitter) to promote the discourse of harmonization. But in today's Russia, where the growth of inter-ethnic conflicts between the re-settlers from the post-Soviet South (Central Asia and South Caucasus) and the host communities in cities and towns has coincided with the growth of online communication milieus and their radicalization, political actors as well as NGOs seem to play minor roles in online communication management, including the cases of social unrest. We explore two Twitter discussions on inter-ethnic conflicts in Moscow to describe the presence of political actors, their roles in conflict resolution, and the patterns of expectations of other users towards the politicians. We discover extremely low political participation, as well as the phenomenon of 'radical replacement' of the roles of political emergency managers by nationalist users.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | eGose 2017 - 2017 International Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society |
Subtitle of host publication | Challenges in Eurasia, Proceedings |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 40-47 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450354127 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 4 Sep 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2017 International Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society, eGose 2017 - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Duration: 4 Sep 2017 → 6 Sep 2017 |
Publication series
Name | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series |
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Volume | Part F130282 |
Conference
Conference | 2017 International Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society, eGose 2017 |
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Country/Territory | Russian Federation |
City | St. Petersburg |
Period | 4/09/17 → 6/09/17 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
Keywords
- Inter-ethnic conflict
- Patterns of blaming
- Political actors
- Web crawling