In the course of the research, the author revealed an inverse correlation between the number of active users of Web 2.0 platforms, services, applications in the regions and the voter turnout in the 2016 electoral cycle (the more number of active users in the region, the voter turnout is lower, and vice versa).Also found that after the adoption of each legislative initiative aimed at regulating the network space, the number of Tor (allows to stay anonymous in the network and bypass the state-imposed restrictions) users increases significantly, which indicates the desire of the network space to gain autonomy from state supervision and regulation.Analyzing the obtained empirical results, as well as such processes and phenomena as cyberparties, network monitory actors, political network movements and communities, the involvement of the "digital" generations Y and Z through the network space into the political life of the society, the influence of the network space on the processes of protest mobilization, the use of digital network communications as an instrument of political participation of citizens, the author concludes that there was a conjugation of the network space and political reality. In conclusion, the author outlines the main features of conjugation and its possible consequences.
Translated title of the contributionConjugation of network space and political reality
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)22-34
JournalСОЦИОДИНАМИКА
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

    Scopus subject areas

  • Political Science and International Relations

    Research areas

  • policy networks, network society, political communication, electoral behavior, electoral politics, blockchain, network space, political change, civil society, civil participation, political reality

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