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Yerkebulan Sairambay - New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan, Inbunden

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New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan

Exploring the Lived Experiences of Young People in Eurasia

Av Yerkebulan Sairambay

Del i serien Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures

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New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Young People in Eurasia confronts the sociological problem of the usage of new media by young people in political participation, particularly in Eurasian countries. The author explains how and why new media promotes political participation among young people in Russia and Kazakhstan. While there has been no shortage of analysis about the interlinkage between new media and political participation, this research is different—it explains the mechanisms and reasons of new-media-assisted political participation. This book develops two models—theoretical and New-Media-Led Political Participation—that better explain how new-media use translates into political participation. These models are of paramount importance for the study of new-media-led political participation, which builds in-depth knowledge to the research area from a post-communist perspective. This book not only sheds light on the ways in which, and the reasons why, new media contributes to the nature of political participation, but also explains why citizens use new media in their political participation. The author sets his sights on what occurs downstream, i.e., not in the minds of political leaders and/or well-known oppositionists but on the ground in specific contexts such as cities, towns, and villages by young people.
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Yerkebulan Sairambay is currently a senior research fellow and assistant professor at Suleyman Demirel University (Kaskelen, Kazakhstan). He was previously a research associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

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Sairambay offers a useful study of political participation among youth in Russia and Kazakhstan. A native speaker of both languages with access to focus groups and survey facilitators in both countries, Sairambay gets close to the ground to better understand how, why, and to what extent citizens between the ages of 18 and 29 are active in domestic politics. The book starts slowly with an excessive literature review, but the discussion becomes more interesting when Sairambay turns to his own findings. He confirms the long-suspected belief that, compared to their elders, young people rely predominantly, if not exclusively, on digital media for information about national politics, and that urban residents are better networked than rural ones. More novelly, Sairambay discusses the difference and relationship between "political engagement" (following, reading, sharing, liking) and "political participation" (voting and joining in grassroots movements and demonstrations). Contra cyber pessimists, he contends that even seemingly innocuous political engagement equips young people with a "political tool kit" that increases the potential for more direct participation. He ends on a more speculative note: even within regimes characterized by "networked authoritarianism," youth political (and oppositional) engagement will continue to grow. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

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