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A doctoral thesis asks what Ukrainian torrent culture can do

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Media scholar Kateryna Boyko presents her research on Ukrainian torrent communities, online activism, and decolonisation.

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For: Readers of Ukrainian media, online activism, and digital culture
Worth noticing: The thesis pseudonymises its research site as “Komora,” the largest Ukrainian-language torrent tracker.

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The thesis frames torrent activity through civic-culture, media-practice, and postcolonial theory rather than treating it only as a copyright question. The page describes users sharing unofficial Ukrainian dubbing, digitising books, and preserving media files from endangered websites, and links to the thesis PDF, publications, and media coverage.

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