Editorial – Issue 20
I am pleased to announce the publication of the anniversary issue of Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (digitalicons.org). This is our twentieth issue, celebrating a whole …
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Disguising the Internet? Website Design and Control in Russia
Research into the media and journalism in contemporary Russia usually focuses on coercion exerted on critical journalists and censorship of their publications. The present study aims to discuss and extend …
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Where in the World is Russian Media Theory?
This article renews questions surrounding Russian or Slavic media theory: namely, what, in Russian, are media and what work do they do in Russia? Why does there not exist, despite …
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Philosophy on the Early Russian Internet: 1994–2008
This essay looks at the development of the discipline of philosophy on the early Russian internet, from the mid 1990s until 2008. Rather than focus on a taxonomical approach to …
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The Art of Guarding the Russian Cloud: Infrastructural Labour in a Yandex Data Centre in Finland
This visual essay discusses digital labour in a Yandex data centre located in Finland. Drawing on a combination of visual ethnography, elicitation interviews and participant observation that took place in …
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Ten Years of Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media: Statements on the Field
Issue 20 celebrates ten years of Digital Icons. As an integral part of this celebratory issue we want to paint a broad picture of the changes Runet underwent in the …
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