Public Networked Discourses in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict: 'Patriotic Hackers' and Digital Populism.
This paper explores the self-presentation and online discursive practices of grassroots hacker collectives on both sides of the Ukraine-Russia conflict within a larger geopolitical climate of a contested globalisation agenda and a growing fear of cyber warfare. Both pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian hac...
| Publicado en: | Irish Studies in International Affairs Vol. 28; pp. 99 - 117 |
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Royal Irish Academy
2017
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