Online: Russian Cyberspace 1. Virtual Power

[Ellen Rutten]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 1 of The Russian
Cyberspace Journal, 'Virtual Power. Russian Politics and the Internet.'
Through a variety of approaches to the study of new media, 'Virtual Power'
presents a scholarly investigation of the representation and web mediation
of Russia's political discourse and the most significant political events of
2008: the presidential elections and the Georgia-Ossetia conflict.

The full issue is available online at www.russian-cyberspace.com.

The Russian Cyberspace Journal is a biannual online publication on Russian,
Eurasian, and Central European new media, published by Russian Cyberspace, a
consortium of scholars concerned with new media studies. For further
information on the Russian Cyberspace project, please visit our site at
www.russian-cyberspace.org <http://russian-cyberspace.org>.

Best regards,

The editors

Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk (Moscow)
Ellen Rutten (Cambridge/Amsterdam)
Robert A. Saunders (New York)
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Vlad Strukov (London/Leeds)


Issue 1. Virtual Power. Table of contents

Editorial

Robert Saunders (Rutgers University, New Jersey), 'Wiring the Second World.
The Geopolitics of Information and Communications Technology in
Post-Totalitarian Eurasia'

Ellen Rutten (Cambridge University), 'More Than a Poet? Why Russian Writers
Didn't Blog on the 2008 Elections'

Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds), 'Possessive and Superlative: On the
Simulation of Democracy and Nationhood in Russia'

Henrike Schmidt (Freie Universitat Berlin), 'Designing Political
Participation. Social Software and Viral Marketing on the Runet'

Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk (RGGU, Moscow), 'Media Constructions of Reality'

Natalia Sokolova (University of Samara), 'Runet for Television Fans: The
Space of / without Politics'

Olena Goroshko & Elena Zhigalina (Technical University Kharkiv), 'Quo Vadis?
Political Interactions in the Russian Blogosphere'

Tatjana Hofmann (Humboldt University Berlin), 'The Third Siege of
Sevastopol': How Historical Myths Are Written 'Bottom-Up' on the Internet'

Discussion, reviews, interviews, and artists' contributions

Floriana Fossato (Oxford University), 'Is Runet the Last Adaptation Tool?'

Aleksei Krivolap (Belarusian State University, Minsk), 'Virtualization of
Belarusian Power'

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