Online: Digital Icons Issue 2. From Comrades To Classmates: Social Networks on the Russian Internet

[Ellen Rutten]

*D*igital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
ISSUE 2: FROM COMRADES TO CLASSMATES. SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE RUSSIAN
INTERNET
http://www.digitalicons.org/

<http://www.digitalicons.org/>The editors are pleased to announce the online
publication of issue 2 of *Digital Icons <http://www.digitalicons.org>*,
'From Comrades to Classmates: Social Networks on the Russian
Internet.' *Digital
Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media* was
previously known as *The Russian Cyberspace Journal*. The journal changed
its title in 2009 to reflect a widened geographic scope and the journal’s
increasingly complex media orientation.

One of the main aims of the issue is to examine the structure, taxonomy,
function, and significance of social networks on the Russian Internet.
The contributors address a number of issues, including the role these new
web-based forms of socializing play in contemporary Russia, particularly
given the paradoxical stereotypes of Russian society as collectivistic on
the one hand, and amorphous and apathetic on the other. The authors aim to
investigate whether social networking in Russia represents a cultural form
specific to post-Soviet Russia, or whether it is only an unreconstructed and
uncritical adaptation of “Western” net practices. Finally, as a separate
issue, the contributors determine the role of social networks in maintaining
Russia’s regional integrity by binding together the widely dispersed
Russian-speaking diaspora.

2.0 Editorial - Vlad Strukov
2.1 Social Networking on RuNet - Karina Alexanyan
2.2 Examining Political Group Membership on LiveJournal - Heather MacLeod
2.3 Psychoanalytical Aspects of Self-Representation in Blogs - Lidia
Mikheeva
2.4 Tatar Groups in Vkontakte - Dilyara Suleymanova
2.5 Social Media and Ukrainian Presidential Elections - Tetiana Katsbert
2.6 The Online Library and the Classic Literary Canon in Post-Soviet  Russia
- Kåre Johan Mjør
2.7 Social Networks in an Un-Networked Society - Dmitry Golynko-Volfson
2.8 Reviews: Books, Digital Films, Animation, and Computer games

*The full issue is available online on
**http://www.digitalicons.org/*<http://www.digitalicons.org/>
*.*

*For more information, please visit the website or write to the editors:
editor at digitalicons.org.*

*Best regards,*

*The Digital Icons Editorial Team:*

Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht)
Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam)
Robert Saunders (New York)
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Vlad Strukov (London)


*Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media*
 (*Digital Icons) is an online publication that appears twice per year. The
journal is a multi-media platform that explores new media as a variety of
 information flows, varied communication systems, and networked communities.
*

*Contributions to Digital Icons cover a broad range of topics related to the
impact of digital and electronic technologies on politics, economics,
society, culture, and the arts in Russia, Eurasia, and Central Europe. Digital
Icons publishes articles from scholars from a variety of academic
backgrounds, as well as artists’ contributions, interviews, comments,
reviews of books,  digital films, animation, and computer games, and
relevant cultural and academic events, as well as any other forms of
discussion of new media in the region.*

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