Organizing “cultural resistance”: Tactical social networking among Russian Artivist collectives rodina and Rebra Evi
Journal: Hybrid
Year: 2022

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 pape