Tanya Lokot
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Tanya Lokot
@tanyalokot.bsky.social
Ukrainian academic living in Ireland. I study digital media, civic mobilisation, & networked authoritarianism. Nature & cats keep me sane. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Work in this area by F Musiani, K Ermoshina, L DeNardis, K Easterling, F Daucé, R Deibert, and many others is vital.
June 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The investigation’s discovery is also another argument for a greater focus on the materiality of technology in platform governance and digital authoritarianism research to highlight the central role of infrastructures in transnational information flows and points of control.
June 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I and @mariellew.bsky.social discuss this in our OA article on Telegram as a political actor and coin the concept of ‘platform actorness’ doi.org/10.1080/1060...
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states
This paper examines the practices, performance, and perceptions of the messaging platform Telegram as an actor in the 2020 Belarus protests, using publicly available data from Telegram’s public sta...
doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reposted by Tanya Lokot
Some people can’t get it through their thick heads that Pu doesn’t want to compromise and he’s the obstacle to any midway solution actually taking place, not Ukraine’s rightful desire for a just peace.
June 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM