Out now // Digital Icons 9: Russian Protest Movement R(e)-Visited

[Ellen Rutten]

Dear SEELANGS readers,

We are pleased to announce the publication of the new special issue of
Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media.
It is entitled

*Russian Protest Movement R(e)-Visited*

and is fully available online at http://www.digitalicons.org/

The 2011-12 Protest Movement in Russia re-defined the country and the
Russian-speaking community worldwide politically, socially and culturally.
It began as a response to the 2011 Russian legislative election process,
and it eventually grew to include various forms of opposition, dissent,
political debate, cultural production and mediation. In spring 2012 *Digital
Icons *published a special issue entitled ‘Russian Elections and Digital
Media (issue 7), which was the first large-scale reflection on the
phenomenon of Russian Protest Movement in the western academia. The issue
documented the Russian political process of 2011-12 and its engagement with
new media and assessed the overall social and cultural impact. Since the
publication of the issue our understanding of the Russian Protest Movement
and its reliance on new media has developed, and our spring 2013 issue
of *Digital
Icons* re-visits the turbulent events and re-considers our approaches to
the study of the phenomenon. The issue specifically examines the connection
between the Protest Movement and digital media by evaluating the general
context of Russian dissent and by focusing on one case study, Pussy Riot.

*9.0 Editorial | Vlad Strukov*

*9.1 Tweeting the Russian Protests | Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa*

*9.2 Quantifying Polarisation in Media Coverage of the 2011-12 Protests in
Russia | Rolf Fredheim*

*9.3 Russians in the City – ‘Patriots’ with a Touch of Spleen | Oksana
Morgunova (Petrunko)*

*Special Cluster: How Pussy Riot Rocked Russia and the World*

*9.4 Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer on Trial Online and in Court | Olga G.
Voronina*

*9.5 Pussy Riot: From Local Appropriation to Global Documentation | Vlad
 Strukov*

*9.6 Defining Pussy Riot Musically: Performance and Authenticity in New
Media | Polly McMichael*

*9.7 ‘Fashion Attack’: The Style of Pussy Riot | Claire Shaw*

*9.8 Book reviews*

The special cluster was guest-edited by Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds,
UK).

The issue was prepared by Sudha Rajagopalan, Ellen Rutten, Henrike Schmidt
and Vlad Strukov, with editorial support from Pedro Hernandez.

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