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In Putin's Russia, Information Has You: Media Control and Internet Censorship in the Russian Federation

In Putin's Russia, Information Has You: Media Control and Internet Censorship in the Russian Federation

Katherine Ognyanova
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466685536|ISBN10: 1466685530|EISBN13: 9781466685543
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8553-6.ch003
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Ognyanova, Katherine. "In Putin's Russia, Information Has You: Media Control and Internet Censorship in the Russian Federation." Management and Participation in the Public Sphere, edited by Mika Markus Merviö, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 62-79. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8553-6.ch003

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Ognyanova, K. (2015). In Putin's Russia, Information Has You: Media Control and Internet Censorship in the Russian Federation. In M. Merviö (Ed.), Management and Participation in the Public Sphere (pp. 62-79). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8553-6.ch003

Chicago

Ognyanova, Katherine. "In Putin's Russia, Information Has You: Media Control and Internet Censorship in the Russian Federation." In Management and Participation in the Public Sphere, edited by Mika Markus Merviö, 62-79. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8553-6.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter outlines the practices of state control over Internet content in Russia and highlights their grounding in the information culture and media environment of the country. Building on existing data on freedom of the press and online censorship, the text explores the socio-cultural context of Kremlin's considerable influence on the Web. To this end, three relevant spheres of power relations are explored. The first one involves censorship and self-censorship routines embedded in the Russian information tradition. The second pertains to the state-controlled mainstream media where news goes through a political filter and the framing of Internet's role in the Russian social life is predominantly negative. The third domain concerns local legislative frameworks and their selective application. The analysis suggests that most of the tools used to control objectionable materials on the Russian Web are not Internet-specific. Rather, they can be seen as a natural extension of the censorship mechanisms used in traditional media.

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