title: Mobilization and Dissent On Blogs and Social Media
abstract: In Rus sia, digital technologies have impacted the world of activism and ways of protesting.The extent of this transformation is of such global magnitude that reflection on the internet and digital social networks is now essential to any research on these activities (Desroches 2011).Like other aspects of the social world, collective mobilization has increasingly been mediated by computerized technological media, especially on handheld devices, even in the most remote parts of the country.Most pr
journal: The MIT Press eBooks