Internet in Russian Politics:
Utopia and Reality
DOI: 10.17976/jpps/2002.01.04
Peskov D.N. Internet in Russian Politics: Utopia and Reality . – Polis. Political Studies. 2002. No. 1. https://doi.org/10.17976/jpps/2002.01.04
«Internet is a Utopia - a place that there isn’t», - the author asserts. The paradox consists in that the Internet, while being Utopian by its essence, is nevertheless able to influence this very existing reality and to change it. In D.N.Peskov’s article, the global Web is treated as medium, or milieu, of various actors’ interaction in the «political field». Attention is concentrated so as to accentuate the possibilities the Web provides them and the use they make of these possibilities. The author attaches especial importance to the functions the actors realize in political dimensions of the Internet, because changes at the functional level in politics, in his opinion, are bound to entail not only radical reconstruction of the traditional «institutional design» of the whole political system, but also transformation of people’s political consciousness and behaviour.
See also:
Lukin A.V.,
The Transition Period in Russia: Democratization and Liberal Reforms. – Polis. Political Studies. 1999. No2
Oleskin A.V.,
Network Structures of Society from the Viewpoint of Biopolitics. – Polis. Political Studies. 1998. No1
Sokolskaya I.B.,
Is the Conservative Revolution Conservative? (On a Chronological Scale of Political Theories). – Polis. Political Studies. 1999. No6
Kulpin E.S.,
How to Transform Ourselves?. – Polis. Political Studies. 1991. No4
Blyakher L.Ye.,
Want of Nationalism, or National Self-Consciousness in Russia’s Far East. – Polis. Political Studies. 2004. No3