Digital Russia: The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
A note on transliteration and translation
Introduction
Part I Contexts
	1 The (im)personal connection: computational systems and (post-)Soviet cultural history
	2 From the utopia of autonomy to a political battlefield: towards a history of the “Russian internet”
Part II New media spaces
	3 Divided by a common web: some characteristics of the Russian blogosphere
	4 Social network sites on the Runet: exploring social communication
	5 Testing and contesting Russian Twitter
Part III Language and diversity
	6 The written turn: how CMC actuates linguistic change in Russian
	7 Slangs go online, or the rise and fall of the Olbanian language
	8 Language on display: on the performative character of computer-mediated metalanguage
	9 Translit: computer-mediated digraphia on the Runet
Part IV Literature and new technology
	10 Russian literature on the internet: from hypertext to fairy tale
	11 Occasional political poetry and the culture of the Russian internet
	12 Digitizing everything? Online libraries on the Runet
Part V The political realm
	13 Politicians online: prospects and perils of “direct internet democracy”
	14 Languages of memory
	15 Is there a Russian cyber empire?
Index