Mariupol Siege Viber-Community as a Form of Grassroot Movement in the Context of "Declining State of Global Democracy"
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2023
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Pavlova, Olena
Rohozha, Mariya
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The method of case analysis for examining the operations of the Viber channel of Mariupol citizens during and after the siege of the city was applied in this article. A relational content analysis of text messages and meta-data of the channel were conducted. The resulting empirical material was conceptualized in the logic of thematization of basic models of democracy and their criticism. The Viber channel media community during wartime was considered in the context of the concepts of the natural state and the social contract. A special place is occupied by the optics of the diversity of forms of "grassroots democracy" and their localization. In terms of "networks of trust" in the context of the opposition of "democratization–de-democratization" (Charles Tilly) and the search for a "deliberation sense of community" (Joseph Bessette). The non-political nature of grassroots movements of media communities and their homology to the decentralization reform in Ukraine are emphasized.
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crisis of democracy, grassroots democracy, trust network, Ukraine, Mariupol siege, state of nature, deliberation, democratic renovation, article
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Pavlova O. Mariupol Siege Viber-Community as a Form of Grassroot Movement in the Context of "Declining State of Global Democracy" / Olena Pavlova, Mariya Rohozha // Ideology and Politics Journal. - 2023. - № 1(22). – P. 241-275.