Issue 2

This section contains interviews, comments, and reviews of books, digital films and animation, computer games, and relevant cultural and academic events, as well as any other forms of discussion of …
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Vkontakte is a popular Russian online social network where, among other things, users can create thematic groups and invite people to join them to exchange information, meet other users, and …
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In this article, I discuss the ambitious Internet project The Fundamental Electronic Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB), which was launched in 2002. In contrast to the Russian online …
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This article offers an outline of possible studies of blogs using the structural psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. This paradigm reveals a new perspective on the phenomenon of virtual personality. Sharing …
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On the eve of presidential elections in Ukraine 2010, numerous profiles of presidential candidates have been set up on the popular network sites Livejournal, Twitter, YouTube, and Vkontakte, either by …
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Global networks with English-language interfaces connect peers all over the world according to a platform of openness, cooperation, and, occasionally, pirated access to knowledge; yet, quite the opposite is the …
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Following the tightening of control over traditional media outlets in the Russian Federation, the Internet has been proposed as a new tool for dissemination of political information, political organization, and …
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Any discussion about the parameters of online social networking is like trying to describe a landscape from a moving train: the view keeps changing as one is attempting to process …
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The Editorial contains an overview of the issue, the contributors’ biographies and abstracts of the submissions.

The issue was prepared by Vlad Strukov, Ellen Rutten, Robert Saunders and …
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