Anonymous Communication Strategy in Telegram: Toward Comparative Analysis of Russia and Belarus

Bykov, Ilya A.; Medvedeva, Mariia V.; Hradziushka, Aleksandr

doi:10.1109/comsds52473.2021.9422858

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“…Previous research in Telegram-centred anti-government movements has focused on more restrictive and authoritarian contexts (Akbari and Gabdulhakov, 2019; Bykov et al, 2021; Urman et al, 2020; Wijermars and Lokot, 2022), stressing moderation modes, censorship escape and alternative media, marking the messenger a useful tool for different types of movements. The results of this study show how Telegram is employed as a space that unifies secluded, separate, deplatformed communities sharing similar discourse and narratives.…”

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From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19 sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram

Almodt

2023

Discourse & Society

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Telegram is a central space for unifying far-right actors and ideology, activists and movements, alternative media, conspiracies, and Coronavirus scepticism. While much research has focused on network dynamics and topic modelling, there is a scarcity of large scale, in-depth content analyses. The present research examines this environment through a semi-automated content analysis of German COVID-19 protest movement Querdenken on Telegram, to determine discursive features of the politicisation of this public health crisis within Querdenken’s communities. The analysis of 1.4 million chat messages shows that key elements of right-wing populist discourse can be detected in several sub-communities. The people and the homeland are antagonised by the corrupt, oppressive elite. Within this environment, politicised anti-COVID-19 restrictions narratives combine with populist discourse, distributed from Querdenken channels via general information channels, connecting to activist, protest, news, lawyer, and doctor-themed chats. Within these channels, external links lead towards publications promoting far-right ideology and conspiracies.

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From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19 sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram

Almodt

2023

Discourse & Society

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Message Deletion on Telegram: Affected Data Types and Implications for Computational Analysis

Buehling

2023

Communication Methods and Measures

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Local Digital Media in the Struggle for the Attention of the Audience in a Changing Media Landscape of Belarus

Hradziushka

Machalava

2022

2022 Communication Strategies in Digital Society Seminar (ComSDS)

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Anonymous Communication Strategy in Telegram: Toward Comparative Analysis of Russia and Belarus

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19 sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram

From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19 sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram

Message Deletion on Telegram: Affected Data Types and Implications for Computational Analysis

Local Digital Media in the Struggle for the Attention of the Audience in a Changing Media Landscape of Belarus

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