Consultation about e-brigades and virtual squads

[Maria Dmytriyeva]

Dear Natalia, 

I haven't seen any decent analysis of this phenomenon, but it has been around for a while now. 
In the Ukrainian LiveJournal we first encountered these guys (the so-called star-shouldered bloggers) on a mass scale during the Orange Revolution. 
they were very similar to each other and they all sang the same song. 
a friend of mine who is an Internet-expert (I mean he is very knowledgeable about Internet nuts and bolts and technicalities) wrote a post on them then -- based on his observations these people were appearing with either identical or very similar IPs.

they are usually called brigades. when one gets engaged in a discusssion (if you can call this discussion) a lot of others would come up as well to force the original poster either to close the post  or to delete it. after some time you learn to recognize them in one comment and ignore and ban. 
(though at first they don't differ much either in their views or in the ways of their expression from a whole lot of regular Russian-speaking bloggers)
fighting these guys as well as regular Russian bloggers who are sure there is no such country as Ukraine, no such language as Ukrainian and that entire Orange Revolution was funded directly by the Department of State helped me find a lot of nice people and great friends. 

I was collecting some articles to use in my own article on the Russian-speaking LiveJournal in relation to this topic. 
I think you might find them interesting. most of them are on the Russian-Georgian war, some on Ukrainian forums, some on Israeli bloggers.

With best regards,
Maria 

http://lenta.ru/articles/2008/08/13/blogs/
Первая блогерская:
Осетинская война в блогосфере
13.08.2008, 19:03:00

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:rc3FRjdtw8sJ:www.5-tv.ru/news/13040/+%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B+%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B5+%D0%B2+%D0%AE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%9E%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B8&cd=1&hl=uk&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=opera
Блоггеры о конфликте в Южной Осетии

http://www.rb.ru/topstory/politics/2008/08/12/181859.html
Южная Осетия разожгла одну из крупнейших в истории информационных войн
Опубликовано 12.08.2008 в 18:18 | Автор - Илья Зиненко

http://muacre.livejournal.com/65335.html
Русская 101-я клавиатурная дивизия

Живой Журнал и война
«Радио Свобода» 20-08-2008
http://telekritika.ua/daidzhest/2008-08-20/40109


Информационная война перешла в ЖЖ
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/305112.html

Информационные мародеры
http://www.pravda.ru/science/technolgies/internet/15-08-2008/279617-livejournal-0


http://stillavinsergei.livejournal.com/131643.html
Чем мы можем ответить на пропаганду США?

http://ut-magazine.livejournal.com/49509.html
Інформаційна війна переходить у інтернет-форуми, блоги та коментарі читачів

http://hutorjanyn.livejournal.com/3142.html
Jul. 4th, 2008 05:54 pm Політтехнології на інтернет-форумах

http://www.mignews.com/news/society/world/180109_172043_59115.html
Репатрианты помогут Израилю в информационной войне
18.01 17:32   MIGnews.com

Как получить удовольствие в общении с носителями тоталитарного сознания ("Обком", Украина)
http://inosmi.ru/translation/239271.html







> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Could someone point me to research that analyzes from a comparative  
> perspective the discourse
> of virtual squads inhabiting post Soviet spaces?
> 
> I have in mind something akin to what is described in the following  
> articles:
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/russia-theme/the-kremlins-virtual-squad
> 
> http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1158744&NodesID=7
> 
> http://grani.ru/Society/p.119861.html
> 
> Thanking you in advance,
> 
> N.  Pylypiuk,
> U of A
> 
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