Dec 24, 2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

Daria Gritsenko, Mariëlle Wijermars, and Mikhail Kopotev

Hosted by Joanne Kuai

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Summary

How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia’s approach to algorithmic governance and internet control? Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics from Maastricht University, Mariëlle Wijermars, talks about her ongoing research on Russian politics, internet policy and platform governance.

In a conversation with Joanne Kuai, Mariëlle Wijermars also talks about The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies. This open-access handbook was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020 and was edited by Mariëlle together with Daria Gritsenko and Mikhail Kopotev.

This handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses to digitalization.

Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars is an Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is currently a CORE Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, where she researches internet freedom and the human rights’ implications of internet policy and platform governance, in particular in authoritarian states.

You can connect with Mariëlle Wijermars on Twitter @Marielle_W_ and on Mastodon @Marielle_W@mastodon.social.

Joanne Kuai is a PhD Candidate at Karlstad University, Sweden, with a research project on Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Newsrooms. Her research interests centre around data and AI for media, computational journalism, and the social implications of automation and algorithms. Find her on LinkedIn or on Twitter @JoanneKuai.

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Joanne Kuai

Dr Joanne Kuai is a Research Fellow at RMIT University and an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Her research focuses on digital journalism, AI and data governance, and the social implications of automation and algorithms. She serves on the Editorial Board of Digital Journalism, is an instructor with the JournalismAI Academy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), hosts the New Books Network podcast, and is the Early Career Representative for the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA).

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