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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Политология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-1438</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-1446</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">31855</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-1438-2022-24-3-530-544</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND INTERNET PROTEST</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ПОЛЯРИЗАЦИЯ И ИНТЕРНЕТ-ПРОТЕСТ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The “Moscow Case” as a Factor of Protest Communication Activity in the Social Network “VK”</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>«Московское дело» как фактор активности протестной коммуникации в социальной сети «ВКонтакте»</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1464-2923</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Philippov</surname><given-names>Ilya B.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Филиппов</surname><given-names>Илья Борисович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>postgraduate in the PhD School of Political Science</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>студент аспирантской школы по политическим наукам</p></bio><email>ibfilippov@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">National Research University “Higher School of Economics”</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-09-07" publication-format="electronic"><day>07</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>24</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Internet and Politics</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Интернет и политика</issue-title><fpage>530</fpage><lpage>544</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-09-07"><day>07</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Philippov I.B.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Филиппов И.Б.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Philippov I.B.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Филиппов И.Б.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/31855">https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/31855</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">This paper addresses the impact of negative juridical sanctions implemented against the participants of the 2019 protest movement in Moscow on the communication in the social network “VK”. The empirical analysis of the mentions of protests and juridical prosecutions allowed to estimate the volume of discussions about the negative sanctions, to compare it with the discussions around the protest rallies and to outline the main factors affecting how active the discussion is on different episodes of negative sanctions. The results show that the coverage of the criminal persecution of activists provokes substantively less interest among the authors and the readers than the communication on the protest movement itself. Increased activity in comments is not observed, while the communication is concentrated in large communities. The input in the protest communication was not the same for sanctions against different activists: the impact was more notable when the media campaign in defense of the accused managed to involve persons with high media capital or a considerable number of people outside the protest movement. In the cases when the events around the accused were only relevant for other activists the surge in online communication turned out to be less noticeable. This implies that negative juridical sanctions are not a newsbreak themselves but have the potential to provoke an outburst in protest communication if the coverage is complemented by the traditional forms of political mobilization or includes opinion leaders.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Исследуется влияние юридических негативных санкций по отношению к участникам протестного движения в Москве в 2019 г. на протестную коммуникацию в социальной сети «ВКонтакте». В ходе исследования корпуса упоминаний протестов и негативных санкций в социальных сетях был оценен масштаб обсуждения судебного преследования в сравнении с обсуждениями самих протестов и очерчены основные факторы, влиявшие на магнитуду коммуникации вокруг различных эпизодов негативных санкций. Оказалось, что освещение уголовного преследования активистов вызывает существенно меньший интерес авторов и читателей, чем обсуждение самих митингов. Всплеска комментаторской активности не происходит, а сама публикационная активность оказывается сконцентрированой в крупных сообществах. Вклад в протестную коммуникацию для санкций против различных фигурантов не был одинаковым: наибольшее влияние оказывалось тогда, когда публичной кампании в защиту подсудимого удавалось вовлечь персон с высоким медиакапиталом либо большое число внешних по отношению к протестному движению людей. В случае, когда вокруг фигуранта было много информационных поводов, интересных только для других активистов, всплеск онлайн-коммуникации оказывался менее заметным. Таким образом, сами по себе юридические негативные санкции не становятся существенным информационным поводом автоматически, но создают потенциал для всплеска протестной коммуникации в случае, если информирование о преследовании дополняется традиционными формами политической мобилизации или вовлечением лидеров общественного мнения.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>social media</kwd><kwd>political participation</kwd><kwd>contentious politics</kwd><kwd>political protest</kwd><kwd>political communication</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>социальные медиа</kwd><kwd>политическое участие</kwd><kwd>состязательная политика</kwd><kwd>политический протест</kwd><kwd>политическая коммуникация</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Исследование выполнено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ в рамках научного проекта № 20-311-90078 «Влияние применения негативных санкций в отношении протестующих на коммуникацию вокруг протестного движения в социальных медиа».</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-311-90078 «The Impact of Negative Sanctions against Protesters on the Communication around Protest Movement on Social Media».</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source></award-group></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Akhremenko, A., &amp; Philippov, I. 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