Benjamin Peters is a media scholar and author of How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet and editor of Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture. He holds the position of Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. More at benjaminpeters.org or @bjpeters.
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 … Read More