Unlike some other national segments of the World Wide Web, the Russian Internet has a
name of its own: it is often called Runet. One may ask why there is a need for a special term …

This paper contributes to the literature on solidarity mobilizations and the framings of social
and political change in the context of the shrinking welfare state, de-democratization, and …

Crowdsourcing can be analyzed not only as a mechanism for empowerment, but also as
operating a form of control over volunteers. This article applies Foucault's notion of …

Asmolov offers a conceptual framework that contributes to an understanding of crisis
communication in an authoritarian environment with a significant scale of proliferation of …

This chapter suggests that the Russian Internet has two different, though interrelated, faces.
The first face is that of Runet in everyday life. The second is that of Runet in crisis situations …

This chapter addresses contemporary crisis communication research produced by Russian
and international scholars. It features a variety of original sources that reveal both Russian …

Character assassination (CA) refers to the strategic effort to discredit an individual or group
target via subversive communication (Samoilenko et al., 2020). CA is a natural social …

Tanulmányomban a COVID19 járvány első hullámában az általános és középiskolák fizikai
terének bezárása nyomán aktivizálódó civil szervezetekkel, illetve az alulról szerveződő …

The history of public relations (PR) in Russia resembles the trajectory of other post-Soviet
democratic institutions: it blossomed in the 1990s, lost impetus during the next decade, and …

Tanulmányomban a COVID19 járvány első hullámában az általános és középiskolák fizikai
terének bezárása nyomán aktivizálódó civil szervezetekkel, illetve az alulról szerveződő …