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A Self-Critical Public : Cumulation of Opinion on Belarusian Oppositional YouTube before the 2020 Protests. / Bodrunova, Svetlana S.; Blekanov, Ivan S.
в: Social Media + Society, Том 7, № 4, 063464, 12.2021, стр. 1-13.Результаты исследований: Научные публикации в периодических изданиях › статья › Рецензирование
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TY - JOUR
T1 - A Self-Critical Public
T2 - Cumulation of Opinion on Belarusian Oppositional YouTube before the 2020 Protests
AU - Bodrunova, Svetlana S.
AU - Blekanov, Ivan S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - YouTube-based discussions are a growing area of academic attention. However, we still lack knowledge on whether YouTube provides for forming critical publics in countries with no established democratic tradition. To address this question, we study commenting to Belarusian oppositional YouTube blogs in advance of the major wave of Belarusian post-election protests of 2020. Based on the crawled data of the whole year of 2018 for six Belarusian political videoblogs, we define the structure of the commenters’ community, detect the core commenters, and assess their discourse for aggression, orientation of dialogue, direction of criticism, and antagonism/agonism. We show that, on Belarusian YouTube, the commenters represented a genuine adversarial self-critical public with cumulative patterns of solidarity formation and find markers of readiness for the protest spillover.
AB - YouTube-based discussions are a growing area of academic attention. However, we still lack knowledge on whether YouTube provides for forming critical publics in countries with no established democratic tradition. To address this question, we study commenting to Belarusian oppositional YouTube blogs in advance of the major wave of Belarusian post-election protests of 2020. Based on the crawled data of the whole year of 2018 for six Belarusian political videoblogs, we define the structure of the commenters’ community, detect the core commenters, and assess their discourse for aggression, orientation of dialogue, direction of criticism, and antagonism/agonism. We show that, on Belarusian YouTube, the commenters represented a genuine adversarial self-critical public with cumulative patterns of solidarity formation and find markers of readiness for the protest spillover.
KW - Belarus
KW - opinion cumulation
KW - political blogging
KW - self-critical public
KW - YouTube
KW - IDEOLOGY
KW - BYELARUS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120947982&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/20563051211063464
DO - 10.1177/20563051211063464
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120947982
VL - 7
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Social Media + Society
JF - Social Media + Society
SN - 2056-3051
IS - 4
M1 - 063464
ER -
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