ABSTRACT
Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have both shaped and been shaped by social, political, linguistic and literary realities, and examines online features and trends that are characteristic of, and in some cases specific to, the Russian-language internet.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|46 pages
Contexts
chapter 1|23 pages
The (im)personal connection
Computational systems and (post-) Soviet cultural history
chapter 2|21 pages
From the utopia of autonomy to a political battlefield
Towards a history of the “Russian internet”
part II|50 pages
New media spaces
part III|69 pages
Language and diversity
chapter 8|15 pages
Language on display
On the performative character of computer-mediated metalanguage
part IV|56 pages
Literature and new technology
part V|54 pages
The political realm
