In this essay I consider the performances of Pussy Riot as part of the global protest movement, which utilities appropriation as its main means of expression. The paper identifies the internet as a new platform of performative appropriation and discusses the logic of Pussy Riot as a global meme and its impact on our understanding of the media system in Russia. I analyse the phenomenon of Pussy Riot as an example of global networked media; it provides me with material necessary for theorising global post-broadcast media. Pussy Riot tells a story of media as a machine, device, exhibition and performance; and it functions as an internet-based television channel. Pussy Riot exemplifies the next stage in the development of the post-broadcast era whereby audiences (re-)produce original content and enable the emergence of a new type of user subjectivity.
