Call for Papers: The Russian Cyberspace Journal

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 /ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'    The Russian Cyberspace Journal invites contributions for its second issue From Comrades to Classmates:
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Social Networks on the Russian Internet The deadline for submissions is 1 July 2009.
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'At the beginning of 2009, the Communist party of the Russian Federation had approximately 150,000 members, while there were over 20 million users of Odnoklassniki.ru, a social networking site for former "classmates". Russia's dominant political party, "United Russia,"
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'commands some 2 million members; however this pales in comparison to the/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'18 million active members of the popular networking platform Vkontakte.ru. While political activity in party organizations is certainly different from the spontaneous, informal, and often apolitical participation in social networks on the web, these comparisons demand inspection. Over the coming decade, sociologists predict a general shift from formal to informal organization of social groups and communities.
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Undoubtedly, this shift will be shaped by contemporary networking technologies.
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'    The issue aims to examine the structure, taxonomy, function, and significance of social networks on the Russian Internet. What role do these new web-based forms of socializing play in contemporary Russia, particularly given the paradoxical stereotypes of Russian society as collectivistic on the one hand, and amorphous and apathetic on the other? Does social networking in Russia represent a cultural form specific to post-Soviet Russia, or is it only an unreconstructed and uncritical adaptation of "Western" net practices?
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'The Russian Cyberspace Journal seeks contributions that approach social networks as a critical component of politics, society, culture, education, and economics. We are interested in exploring a number of questions, including: Have new social networks replicated and/or replaced Soviet traditions of social mobilisation? What is the role of social networks in maintaining Russia's regional integrity and binding together the widely-dispersed Russian- speaking diaspora? What can we learn about post-millennial everyday practices-dating, business associations, public relations-from the operation of Russian social networks?
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'    Guidelines
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'    Text-based academic entries in English, German or Russian, and/or submissions in other genres, styles and form, reflecting the nature of the medium, by scholars, politicians, artists and cultural practitioners are welcome and will be considered for publication.
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'For more information, please visit
/span/ppa href='http://www.russian-cyberspace.com/forthcoming-issue_call-for-submissions.php?lng=English'span style='font-family:Times New Roman'http://www.russian-cyberspace.com/forthcoming-issue_call-for-submissions.php?lng=English/span/aspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'
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 /ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'    The Russian Cyberspace Journal is an online publication that appears twice per year. The issues are organized thematically, focusing on timely issues and topics related to the study of Russian, Eurasian and Central European new media. Articles from scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds as well as artists' contributions, interviews, book reviews, comments, and discussions are invited. The journal is published in three languages, English, German, and Russian. The journal is a multi-media platform, celebrating cyberspace as a variety of information flows. The journal editors and the advisory board are comprised of young but distinguished academics and net practitioners from across the globe.
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Source:
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Editorial team:
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Vlad Strukov (London)
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Robert Saunders (New York)
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam)
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk (Moscow)
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