Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

Cassandra Hartblay

Cassandra Hartblay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health & Society and Director of the Centre for Global Disability Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, as well as a member of the University of Toronto graduate faculty in the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies. She is author of I WAS NEVER ALONE or Oporniki: An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia (University of Toronto Press 2020), and her scholarship has appeared in American Ethnologist, Disability Studies Quarterly, among other publications.

Editorial – Issue 21

By Cassandra Hartblay and Tatiana Klepikova • Issue 21

In 2014 at the annual ASEEES convention, Stephen Hanson gave the presidential address; he argued that there was something worth exploring in the internally heterogenous regional cultural specificity in ‘the …
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Bodyminds Online: Digitally Mediated Selves in Regional Cultural Context

By Cassandra Hartblay and Tatiana Klepikova • Issue 21

In this introductory article framing a special issue, we argue that embodiment matters for understanding social subjectivity that emerges through digital media in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. We offer the …
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Call for papers: Issue 22 – Digital Selves: Embodiment and Co-Presence in New Media Cultures in Central Europe and Eurasia

By Cassandra Hartblay and Tatiana Klepikova • Uncategorized

Guest editors: Cassandra Hartblay (University of Toronto) Tatiana Klepikova (University of Toronto)

Since the emergence of new media cultures, the theorization of the relationship between embodied positioning in space and …
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Losing Pravda: Ethics and The Press in Post-Truth Russia

By Cassandra Hartblay • News

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