Digital Politics: Eurasia in the Global Context

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент политологии и международных отношений

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Преподаватель

Кабанов Юрий Андреевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The Internet and politics have a complex interrelationship. The former changes social communication, empowers or reinforces political actors, while political regime and power relations frequently shape the dynamics of the cyberspace. It is especially clear in case of modern non-competitive regimes, as many of them try to utilize Internet to gain legitimacy, competitiveness, and eventually, regime consolidation. The means of the Internet control in non-democracies now go far beyond its blocking and censorship. The course is arranged to provide a wide comparative perspective of the Internet politics and give students hints to explore this area in their research.

Learning Objectives

• To overview the Internet as the political space, globally and in particular regions of interest
• To familiarize students with the contemporary research on the Internet Studies in relation to politics and governance
• To overview the current methods, tools and policies of the Internet regulation and control in terms of comparative authoritarianism theories

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Applies the theories of comparative authoritarianism to the analysis of the political and social processes on the Internet
• Describes the peculiarities of the Internet development and governance in the regions of specialization
• Enumerates and describes the major tools of the Internet regulation in non-democracies
• Defines and applies the models of the Internet policy and governance
• Applies the theories of Political Science to the analysis of the impact of the Internet on Politics

Course Contents

• How to Think about Digital Politics: Key Concepts and Models
• The Internet and Political Participation
• Surveillance, Dataveillance and Algorithmic Governance
• Digital Transformation of Public Administration: E-Government
• Democratic Innovations. E-Participation
• Global Internet Governance

Assessment Elements

• Class Activities
  The lecturer evaluates students' participation in seminar discussions and other activities, their preparation for the seminars.
• Team Presentation
  During the final seminars students will discuss particular cases of the Internet Politics development. For the assignment, students need to form a group of 3-4 students, choose a country of interest and a topic. The presentation should be 15 minutes maximum. Students may choose a topic from the list or suggest their own topic (upon prior consultation with the lecturer).
• Exam
  The exam is conducted during the session. The duration of the exam is 60 minutes. The test consists of two parts: A - 10 multiple choice questions (10 points in total), 2 open questions (6 points in total).

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.3 * Class Activities + 0.5 * Exam + 0.2 * Team Presentation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• The logic of connective action : Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics. (2012). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.EA6634C5
• Venkataswamy, S. (2013). William H. Dutton (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.4DDAED5B

Authors

• KABANOV Iurii ANDREEVICH