Migrating Servers, Elusive Users: Reconfigurations of the Russian Internet in the Post-Snowden Era

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...

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Published in:Media and communication (Lisboa) 2017-01, Vol.5 (1), p.42-53
Main Authors: Ermoshina, Ksenia, Musiani, Francesca
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Censorship
digital sovereignty
Edward Snowden
Geopolitics
Governance
Infrastructure
International relations
Internet
Internet geopolitics
Internet governance
Internet infrastructure
Resistance
Russian Internet
Tactics
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2183-2439
2183-2439
DOI:10.17645/mac.v5i1.816