title: Government’s echo. Twitter discussions around news topics in Russian networked authoritarianism
abstract: This research uses the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method to determine the main actors in Twitter discussions around news topics. First, using the theory of networked authoritarianism (MacKinnon, 2011 MacKinnon, R. (2011). Liberation technology: China’s “networked authoritarianism”. Journal of Democracy, 22(2), 32–46. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2011.0033[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), it conceptualizes the ways that authoritarian states may influence domestic media and the
journal: Russian Journal of Communication