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Subversive affordances as a form of digital transnational activism: The case of Telegram’s native proxy
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2021-11-05
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SAGE Publications
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1461-4448
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Internet, social media, and app shutdowns have become frequent, not only in authoritarian states but also in emerging and fragile democracies. As Russian authorities enforced a legal blockage to Instant Messenger Telegram during the past 2 years, many users kept using the app seamlessly thanks to what we call a subversive affordance: a built-in proxy functionality that allows users to seamlessly circumvent the blockage. We claim it is subversive because it allows users to overcome the blockage as the consequence of the app’s development, with a significant fraction of users who did not have to take action to bypass the blockage. By conducting an online survey and performing a meta-cluster analysis, we found a group we labeled the undeprived: people that, despite presenting traits frequently associated with digital divides—such as gender, age, and low levels of digital skills—were able to keep using the app.
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The authors received funding from Universidad Finis Terrae through the grant CAI 2017, and from Chile’s National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) through the Millennium Science Initiative Program—Code ICN17_002.
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Santos, M., Saldaña, M., & Tsyganova, K. (2021). Subversive affordances as a form of digital transnational activism: The case of Telegram’s native proxy. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211054830
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