Online Self-Moderation in Response to Regime Repression: Foreign Agent Labelling in Russia
This talk presents findings from a study using Russia’s “foreign agent” label timing to examine repression’s effect on (1) content by labelled political pariahs and (2) user engagement with such “suspect” content online.
Online Self-Moderation in Response to Regime Repression: Foreign Agent Labelling in Russia
This talk presents findings from a study using Russia’s “foreign agent” label timing to examine repression’s effect on (1) content by labelled political pariahs and (2) user engagement with such “suspect” content online.
Public Art in Authoritarian Contexts: Looking East
This roundtable examines public and street art under authoritarianism, exploring the artistic practice not merely as genres but as contested states of publicness where artistic visibility becomes a site of political negotiation.
The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse
Joseph Kellner, historian of Russia and the Soviet Union at the University of Georgia, presents his recently-published book, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse.
Blending horror and farce, Moscow 93 presents Russia in the first decade after communism through the lens of a sordid expat scene. A scene that, one day, exploded into a war zone.