Subversive affordances as a form of digital transnational activism: The case of Telegram’s native proxy

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dc.contributor.authorSantos, Marcelo
dc.contributor.authorSaldaña, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorTsyganova, Ksenia
dc.coverage.spatialEEUUes
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-29T14:37:17Z
dc.date.available2021-12-29T14:37:17Z
dc.date.issued2021-11-05
dc.description.abstractInternet, 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.es
dc.description.sponsorshipThe 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.es
dc.identifier.citationSantos, 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/10.1177/14614448211054830es
dc.identifier.issn1461-4448
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-2658-3764es
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-1218-0091es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12254/2208
dc.language.isoen_USes
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationses
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNew Media and Society;
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Chile (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 CL)
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cl/
dc.subject.otherAffordanceses
dc.subject.otherIMes
dc.subject.otherPavel Duroves
dc.subject.otherRussiaes
dc.subject.otherTelegrames
dc.subject.otherDigital divideses
dc.subject.otherDigital resistancees
dc.subject.otherInternet censorshipes
dc.titleSubversive affordances as a form of digital transnational activism: The case of Telegram’s native proxyes
dc.typeArtículoes
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