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Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown
In April to June 2020, Russia passed through a major COVID-19 lockdown which, as elsewhere, has led to a rise of online connectivity and co-practice. We argue that several online mass-participation activities by Russians during the lockdown have grown into examples of contributive action. As a type...
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description | In April to June 2020, Russia passed through a major COVID-19 lockdown which, as elsewhere, has led to a rise of online connectivity and co-practice. We argue that several online mass-participation activities by Russians during the lockdown have grown into examples of contributive action. As a type of connective action, contributive action is based upon individual motivation to partake in unorganized personal action. However, its focus moves from connection-and-action (mostly impossible during lockdowns) to online projects where user participation-by-contribution turns an activity into socially and/or politically meaningful action. In Russia, activities based on contributive action, such as virtual protests or online Victory Day celebrations, came in place of connective action at a time when offline collectivity was unavailable or minor. They also served as a way back to normality in relations between the society and the state, as well as a means for social coping with the crisis. |
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spelling | pubmed-82633692021-07-08 Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown Bodrunova, Svetlana S Media International Australia Extraordinary Issue: Pandemic as Global Event In April to June 2020, Russia passed through a major COVID-19 lockdown which, as elsewhere, has led to a rise of online connectivity and co-practice. We argue that several online mass-participation activities by Russians during the lockdown have grown into examples of contributive action. As a type of connective action, contributive action is based upon individual motivation to partake in unorganized personal action. However, its focus moves from connection-and-action (mostly impossible during lockdowns) to online projects where user participation-by-contribution turns an activity into socially and/or politically meaningful action. In Russia, activities based on contributive action, such as virtual protests or online Victory Day celebrations, came in place of connective action at a time when offline collectivity was unavailable or minor. They also served as a way back to normality in relations between the society and the state, as well as a means for social coping with the crisis. SAGE Publications 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8263369/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X20953536 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Extraordinary Issue: Pandemic as Global Event Bodrunova, Svetlana S Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown |
title | Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown |
title_full | Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown |
title_fullStr | Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown |
title_full_unstemmed | Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown |
title_short | Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown |
title_sort | contributive action: socially mediated activities of russians during the covid-19 lockdown |
topic | Extraordinary Issue: Pandemic as Global Event |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8263369/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X20953536 |
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