Social media, online activism and government control in Kazakhstan

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Beisembayeva, Dila
Papoutsaki, Evangelia
Kolesova, Elena
Kulikova, Svetlana

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2013

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Kazakhstan
Zhanaozen massacre (Kazakhstan, 2011)
2011
social media
activism
netizens
internet censorship

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Beisembayeva, D., Papoutsaki, E., Kolesova, E., and Kulikova, K. (2013). Social media, online activism and government control in Kazakhstan. Paper presented at Proceedings in the International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, June 25-29, Dublin, Ireland

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This paper presents preliminary findings from an ongoing research project on the role of online social media and activism in political processes and political participation in Kazakhstan that uses as a case study the civic conflict in the town of Zhanaozen in 2011 and the engagment of netizens as bloggers in the subsequent events.

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International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference

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