SAVE THE DATE & CALL FOR PAPERS: POST-SOVIET INTERNET

[a_timberlake at BERKELEY.EDU]

SAVE THE DATE & CALL FOR PAPERS:  POST-SOVIET INTERNET
With this we want to make you aware of a conference, The Etiology and
Ecology of Post-Soviet Communication, which we have planned for the
weekend of May 7-8(-9) 2010 at the Harriman Institute of Columbia, in New
York City.  The focus of the conference will be the development of the
internet in the post-Soviet space, first and foremost Russia, though
comparative work that goes beyond this geographical focus is also of
interest.

We anticipate panels on such questions as:    emergence and evolution of
social networks; patterns of interlinking; the phenomenon of social
contagion in online communications; political clustering in the
blogosphere and beyond; public versus private identities; doublethink,
cynicism, coded language; the emergence of opinion leaders in the
blogosphere; freedom of the press on the internet; forms and degrees of
censorship, online activism/social movements on the internet; dissenters
and political activism; democracy to autocracy in the Russian internet.

We would welcome one-page abstracts sent to nmc.conference at gmail.com by
February 1, 2010.

The conference culminates a one-year project on New Modes of Communication
at Columbia’s Harriman Institute.  For more information on the project,
please see http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/

Yours truly,
Eugene Gorny Florian Toepfl, Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Alan Timberlake,
Guobin Yang.

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