The Networked Public Sphere in Moscow: How Young Adults Navigate Social Media and the Online Space

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dc.contributor.advisorSilverman, Carol
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Kyle
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-08T15:47:57Z
dc.date.available2020-12-08T15:47:57Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-08
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I examine how social media and the internet function as an alternative to Habermas’ public sphere and their potential to facilitate public discourse in the Russian Federation. Using in-depth interviews conducted in Moscow in 2019, I attempt to show how recent political and social circumstances influence such uses by young adults. To understand actually existing uses of these technologies, I contextualize these interviews within facets of post-Soviet life such as media bias, lack of trust in journalistic institutions and politicians, and political apathy. In this sense, this project has the potential to show how agentive uses of social media and the online space function as an alternative to Habermas’ public sphere within the context of my interlocutors’ lifeworlds.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25901
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectHabermasen_US
dc.subjectLifeworlden_US
dc.subjectPost Sovieten_US
dc.subjectPublic Sphereen_US
dc.subjectRussiaen_US
dc.subjectSocial Mediaen_US
dc.titleThe Networked Public Sphere in Moscow: How Young Adults Navigate Social Media and the Online Space
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineRussian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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