Karina Alexanyan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communications at Columbia University, New York. Her doctoral research centres on the role of global communication technologies in cultural globalization, with a focus on Russian-language Internet users. She is currently working with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University on mapping the Russian language blogosphere. In 2008, with the support of Harvard University’s Berkman Center and Columbia’s Harriman Institute, she organized the “Russia Online: Mapping the Russian Language Blogosphere” conference at Columbia University. She is the recipient of the John N. Hazard (2009) and Pepsico (2006) Fellowships from the Harriman Institute at Columbia. Among her publications is “Blogging in Russia is not Russian Blogging” in International Blogging—Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics (2009).
