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ISSN 2043-7633

Mariëlle Wijermars

Mariëlle Wijermars is a postdoctoral researcher at the Russian Media Lab, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. She holds a PhD from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Her recent publications include Memory Politics beyond the Political Domain: Historical Legitimation of the Power Vertical in Contemporary Russian Television (Problems of Post-Communism 2016); The Making of a Political Myth: Stability Po-Stolypinski”’ (The Ideology and Politics Journal, 2015); ‘Forget Memory. Aleksei Navalnyi’s LiveJournal and the Memory Discourse of the Protest Movement (2011-2012)’ (with Hanna Stähle, Digital Icons, 2014).

Latest Posts | By Mariëlle Wijermars
Re-framing Women and Technology in Global Digital Spaces

Re-framing Women and Technology in Global Digital Spaces

This introductory essay outlines the main theoretical and contextual frameworks of the special issue. It argues that the focus on women and technology advances the gender studies agenda of the …
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Editorial – Issue 19

Editorial – Issue 19

This is the first special issue of Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (digitalicons.org) devoted entirely to a feminist perspective on digital media and communication technologies. In …
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Project ‘1917 –Free History’: Reliving the Russian Revolution in the Digital Age

Project ‘1917 –Free History’: Reliving the Russian Revolution in the Digital Age

The article examines Project ‘1917 – Free History,’ an innovative and ambitious online initiative that enables its followers to relive the Russian Revolution in real time. Presenting archival materials in …
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Forget Memory: Aleksei Naval’nyi’s LiveJournal and the Memory Discourse of the Protest Movement (2011-2012)

The article explores the online memory discourse of the Russian protest movement of 2011-2012 through an investigation of the LiveJournal blog of Aleksei Naval’nyi. Based on a combination of quantitative …
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