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The article is devoted to the analysis of civic activity in modern Russia. The article presents the results of a longitudinal study of civic activity in Russia since 2014. The study is conducted by a survey of experts. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the development of online and offline civic activity.
Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of mobilization and demobilization in civic activity. It examines what forms of organizations are most significant in civic engagement, as well as how authorities react to their activities, what tools are used to demobilize citizens.
The research show that the degree of development of civic activity has remained at approximately the same level for several years. At the same time, on-line activism is more developed than off-line. It seems that online activism is more massive and affordable, less labor-intensive for ordinary participants. At the same time, the Internet provides a fairly diverse set of tools, the application technologies of which are developing. Internet technologies are used as a mechanism by which political action can be seen by authorities and the public. At the same time, the state is forced to respond to such changes and is stepping up to regulate various forms of activity on the Internet.
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The reported study was funded by the grant from the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists MD-855.2020.6 “Mobilization and demobilization in modern practices of protest activity”.
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Sokolov, A., Palagicheva, A., Golovin, Y. (2020). Offline and Online Citizen Activism in Russia. In: Alexandrov, D.A., Boukhanovsky, A.V., Chugunov, A.V., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O., Musabirov, I. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1242. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65218-0_2
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