Democracy as pothole repair: Civic applications and cyber-empowerment in Russia
Vol.8,No.3(2014)
Special issue: New Media and Democracy
empowerment; ICT; contention; civic applications; Russia
Ksenia Ermoshina
Ksenia Ermoshina is a PhD candidate at the Center for Sociology of Innovation, at Mines Paris Tech, France. She specializes in sociology of innovation and political sociology and is researching the civic hacking movement and uses of new ICTs by contemporary social movements. Her PhD thesis focuses on mobile technologies and smartphone applications as new tools of civic participation in Russia and France.
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