Theorizing Digital Politics in Russian and Foreign Studies: Introducing the Issue

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The guest editor of this issue, Sergey Volodenkov, is a recognized expert in digital political communications, manipulation and propaganda technologies in modern informational confrontations, public consciousness management, problems of national information security and hybrid wars. His editorial article presents this thematic issue dedicated to the phenomenon of digitalization of political processes and digital politics in general. The purpose of the issue is to demonstrate the achievements of Russian political scientists who develop their original approaches and work in collaboration with foreign academics in political communication studies and demonstrate the lines of the most rigorous research.

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Sergey V. Volodenkov

Lomonosov Moscow State University

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Email: s.v.cyber@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2928-6068

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Department of Public Policy, Faculty of Political Science

Moscow, Russian Federation

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