Digital Russia
The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication
1st Edition
Published on 25. February 2014
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-415-70704-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 5 s/w Zeichnungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
637 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-70704-6 (9780415707046)
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Michael Gorham | Ingunn Lunde | Martin Paulsen
Digital Russia
The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication
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Michael Gorham | Ingunn Lunde | Martin Paulsen
Digital Russia
The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication
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03/2014
1st Edition
Routledge
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Michael Gorham | Ingunn Lunde | Martin Paulsen
Digital Russia
The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication
E-Book
03/2014
1st Edition
Routledge
€44.99
Available for download
Persons
Michael S. Gorham is an Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida, USA.
Ingunn Lunde is Professor of Russian at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Martin Paulsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Ingunn Lunde is Professor of Russian at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Martin Paulsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Content
Introduction Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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 4: Literature and New Technology 10. Russian Literature on the Internet: From Hypertext to Fairy Tale 11. Occassional Political Poetry and the Culture of the Russian Internet 12. Digitizing Everything? Online Libraries on the Runet Part 5: The Political Realm 13. Politicians Online: Prospects and Perils of "Direct Internet Democracy" 14. Languages of Memory 15. Is there a Russian Cyber Empire?