arXiv cs.CY· Polina Smirnova, Mykola Makhortykh·· 13 小时前AI 评分31
俄罗斯极右翼 Telegram 表情包如何为威权统治提供合法性
Strong Men Create Good Memes: Far-Right Memes as Means of Authoritarian Legitimation in Russia
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一项基于 404,013 张图片的研究发现，俄罗斯极右翼 Telegram 频道通过表情包自下而上地生产合法性叙事，与国家宣传形成互补。研究使用自动人脸识别、CLIP 图像嵌入和 HDBSCAN 聚类，识别出涉及普京、梅德韦杰夫及泽连斯基、拜登、特朗普的表情包，并揭示其将威权领导人塑造为英雄、将对手描绘为腐败、软弱或非人的反复视觉模式。
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Abstract:This study examines how Russian far-right communities on Telegram shape perceptions of political figures through meme-based visual narratives. In Russia, such groups are central because they articulate the ideological foundations of the war against Ukraine and reflect the regime's drift toward ultranationalist rhetoric. Drawing on a dataset of 404,013 images from expert-selected far-right Telegram channels, the study uses automated face recognition, CLIP-based image embeddings, and HDBSCAN clustering with UMAP to identify memes featuring Russian (Putin, Medvedev) and foreign politicians (Zelensky, Biden, Trump) and to uncover recurrent visual patterns in their representation. Findings show that far-right memes co-produce state propaganda by generating new bottom-up narratives of legitimation and delegitimation that situationally align with state ideology. By framing authoritarian leaders as heroic and their opponents as corrupt, weak, or non-human, far-right actors act as informal co-creators of authoritarian legitimacy within Russia's informational autocracy.
| Subjects: | Computers and Society (cs.CY) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2601.14190 [cs.CY] |
| (or arXiv:2601.14190v2 [cs.CY] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.14190 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
Submission history
From: Polina Smirnova [view email]
[v1]
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:48:06 UTC (11 KB)
[v2]
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:13:53 UTC (4,918 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.CY · arxiv.org