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During the global anti-epidemiological measures imposed to combat the COVID-19, in July 2020 protests broke out in Bulgaria, caused by a number of corruption scandals in the country. The demand was the resignations of the chief prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria and the ruling government and sumonning of early elections for national Parliament. The object of the study is the public unrest against corruption in Bulgaria. The subject is the relationship between digital and real environment through computerization. The research method is analysis. Some of the conclusions are that the protests in Bulgaria ran from the virtual to the real environment and back through social networks and social media and had significant societal impacts.
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The present study was carried out in the framework of the DATASOC Project KP-06-M35/4 - 18.12.2019 of the National Scientific Fund.
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Velinova, N. (2022). Social Challenges to Communication in Digital Environment. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V. IHIET 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 319. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_15
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