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- Title
SELF-CENSORSHIP AMONG POLITICAL BLOGGERS IN BELARUS AND RUSSIA: To make yourself heard, with minimal risk to yourself and your loved ones, that is the challenge.
- Authors
Rudnik, Alesia
- Abstract
Awareness of potential political sanctions can stop social media users from expressing critical and open political views for the sake of personal security. This essay focuses on political bloggers in Belarus and Russia as political opinion leaders who have become more frequent targets of these regimes in recent years. The essay presents the results of a survey on perception and practices of self-censorship conducted among 61 well-known political bloggers in Russia and Belarus and discusses them in relation to the theory of the spiral of silence.
- Subjects
BELARUS; RUSSIA; BLOGGERS; POLITICAL attitudes; POLITICIANS; PERSONAL security; SOCIAL media
- Publication
Baltic Worlds, 2020, Vol 13, Issue 2/3, p125
- ISSN
2000-2955
- Publication type
Article