Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

Henrike Schmidt

Henrike Schmidt is private lecturer at the Peter Szondi-Institute for Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include theoretical issues of digital and networked culture and their significance for the societies of East and Central Europe; Russian and Bulgarian literature (with a special focus on intermediality and genre theory). Among her publications is the book Russian Literature on the Internet: Between Digital Folklore and Political Propaganda, published in German in 2011 by transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. She is currently working as Principal Investigator in the research project ‘The European Spa as a Transnational Public Space and Social Metaphor’ (funded by HERA Humanities in the European Research Area, www.theeuropeanspa.eu).

Ten Years of Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media: Statements on the Field

By Andrew Chapman, Olena Goroshko, Tatjana Hofmann, Gernot Howanitz, Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk, Sudha Rajagopalan, Ellen Rutten, Robert A. Saunders, Henrike Schmidt, Vlad Strukov, Elena Trubina and Vera Zvereva • Issue 20

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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Editorial – Issue 15

By Vlad Strukov, Henrike Schmidt and Orlin Spassov • Issue 15

The new issue of the journal consists of two parts. The first includes research essays that had been received through our regular submission system. The second is a cluster on …
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Eagles’ Bridge

By Henrike Schmidt • Issue 15

Editorial – Issue 13

By Orlin Spassov, Henrike Schmidt and Vlad Strukov • Issue 13

DI 13 opens with the ‘Bulgarian cluster’, presenting research and artistic insights into the digital and networked culture of Bulgaria. The submissions in this section are an outcome of an …
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From a Bird’s Eye Perspective: Aerial Drone Photography and Political Protest. А Case Study of the Bulgarian #resign Movement 2013

By Henrike Schmidt • Issue 13

Aerial drone photography has become popular throughout the first decade of the 21st century, with the technology getting ever more affordable and easy-to-use. It is employed for a variety …
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LitRes. A Critical Review of Russia’s e-Book Seller No1

By Henrike Schmidt • Issue 5

While in the US the electronic book sector has been prospering since the introduction of comfortable reading devices such as Amazons Kindle or Apples iPad, the Russian market for e-books …
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