Marielle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia\u2019s approach to algorithmic governance and internet control? Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics from Maastricht University,\xa0Mari\xeblle Wijermars, talks about her ongoing research on Russian politics, internet policy and platform governance.\nIn a conversation with\xa0Joanne Kuai, Mari\xeblle Wijermars also talks about\xa0The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies.\xa0This open-access handbook was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020 and was edited by Mari\xeblle together with Daria Gritsenko and Mikhail Kopotev.\nThis handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the \u2018digital\u2019 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.\nDr. Mari\xeblle Wijermars is an Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics at\xa0Maastricht University\xa0in the Netherlands. She is currently a CORE Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, where she researches internet freedom and the human rights\u2019 implications of internet policy and platform governance, in particular in authoritarian states.\nYou can connect with Mari\xeblle Wijermars on Twitter\xa0@Marielle_W_\xa0and on Mastodon\xa0@Marielle_W@mastodon.social.\nJoanne Kuai\xa0is 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\xa0LinkedIn\xa0or on Twitter\xa0@JoanneKuai.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law