Abstract
This article explores various uses of social networks in a non-democratic context, in order to investigate the Internet’s capacity to work as an agent of democracy beyond mere ideology of online participation. As a diving off point, it takes the examples of two activist-artist collectives based in St. Petersburg which belong to a performative art movement, and which have remained very active in online social networks since their founding. Considering the specificity of these two cases, this paper’s aim is to draw a portrait of Russia in the digital age, to determine certain uses of the Internet in order to understand their “tactical” reach, and lastly, to measure on a micropolitical level the impact of their artistic practices as they circulate online.
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