Political Memes as Tools of Dissent and Alternative Digital Activism in the Russian-language Twitter
Journal: WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster)
Year: 2016

This research has analysed the role of Internet memes in the contemporary Russian alternative discourse. It has identified memes as the Internet common language that users exploit to communicate on all topics and also utilise as the mind-bombs to influence the political discourse. This project focused on the employment of memes in the deliberation of the Crimean crisis in the Russian Twitter in 2014. Pro-government and anti-government activists have used this format of texts to promote their age