Activist Journalists and Postsocialist Politics Through the Lens of the Armenian Velvet Revolution



: Korhonen Juho, Rodina Elena

Publisher: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd

: 2023

: Europe-Asia Studies

: EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES

: EUROPE-ASIA STUD

: 22

: 0966-8136

: 1465-3427

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2023.2228520

: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2023.2228520


This article draws on a cross-disciplinary framework to analyse the 2018 'Velvet Revolution' in Armenia and its success in implementing regime change through grassroots resistance. Utilising interview data, we suggest that the success of the Armenian revolution-that is, the relative postrevolutionary democratisation-can be partially explained by the combination of the global trend towards the digitisation of political discourse with the active political role played by the local 'activist journalists' within the context of a postsocialist state.



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