ISBN:
9781306481618
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (313 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series 53
Parallel Title:
Print version Digital Russia
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Digital Russia
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Russisch
;
Internet
;
Kommunikation
;
Wortschatz
;
Internetliteratur
Abstract:
〈P〉〈EM〉Digital Russia〈/EM〉 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.〈/P〉
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Testing and contesting Russian TwitterPart 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Part V The political realm13 Politicians online: prospects and perils of "direct internet democracy"; 14 Languages of memory; 15 Is there a Russian cyber empire?; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
