Theorizing Digital Politics in Russian and Foreign Studies

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• digital politics
• digitalization
• digital participation
• digital trust
• digital protest
• big data
• artificial intelligence
• echo chamber
• post-truth
• fake news
• digital metaverses