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Ideological Segregation in the Russian Cyberspace: Evidences from St. Petersburg

Authors : Denis Martyanov, Il’ia Bykov

Published in: Digital Transformation and Global Society

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This paper is devoted to the study of political attitudes of Internet-users in Russia. The study is based on empirical data obtained by a survey conducted in 2015 in St. Petersburg. The authors have identified groups of political ideologies’ supporters in St. Petersburg which compose a political spectrum of communists, social-democrats, conservatives, liberals, and nationalists. These ideologically motivated groups tend to be unlike in terms of online news consumption, political online activities, and political approaches to regulate cyberspace. The authors were able to identify ideological groups that can be described as cyber-leftists and cyber-rightists in the Russian Internet.

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Title: Ideological Segregation in the Russian Cyberspace: Evidences from St. Petersburg
Authors: Denis Martyanov
Il’ia Bykov
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Digital Transformation and Global Society
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-69783-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-69784-0

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69784-0_22

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