Roskomnadzor-chan and Other Beings: Performative Practices and Folklore Reaction to the Telegram Lockout
[Roskomnadzor-tian i drugie: performativnye praktiki fol’klornoi reaktsii na blokirovki Telegram]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 09.01.2020
Accepted: 20.05.2020
About author(s)
Daria Radchenko | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9298-7783 | darradchenko@gmail.com | Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (82 prospekt Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119571, Russia)
Keywords
internet folklore, digital anthropology, contemporary folklore, performative practice, protest, digital resistance, Telegram
Abstract
Reacting to the official prohibition and attempts to block Telegram (a popular messenger application), user groups invent new forms of symbolic or direct protest offline and online to build and maintain solidarity of the users and recruit additional supporters. In this article, I show how, through these pro test performative practices (from transmitting jokes in social media to rallies and hacker activities), the users demonstrate their idea of their own agency and of the limits of their “virtual body”.
Funding Information
This research was supported by the following institutions and grants:
Russian Foundation for Basic Research, https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002261 [17-01-00357-OGN-A]
Citation
Radchenko, D.A. 2020. Roskomnadzor-chan and Other Beings: Performative Practices and Folklore Reaction to the Telegram Lockout [Roskomnadzor-tian i drugie: performativnye praktiki fol’klornoi reaktsii na blokirovki Telegram]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 3: 24–37. https://doi.org/10.31857/S086954150010046-0
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