Editorial – Issue 21
In 2014 at the annual ASEEES convention, Stephen Hanson gave the presidential address; he argued that there was something worth exploring in the internally heterogenous regional cultural specificity in ‘the …
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Bodyminds Online: Digitally Mediated Selves in Regional Cultural Context
In this introductory article framing a special issue, we argue that embodiment matters for understanding social subjectivity that emerges through digital media in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. We offer the …
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On Making Presence: Blind Authors’ Digital Storytelling in Russia
This article argues that blind people’s digital storytelling in Russia constitutes a contemporary grassroots tool of unearthing their public presence. In writing and sharing their stories, they seek (and forge) …
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‘But We Are Always at Home’: Disability and Collective Identity Construction on Runet
The article analyses a Russian disability activism hashtag: ‘#AMyVsegdaDoma’ (‘But we are always at home’). The hashtag highlights the exclusion of disabled people from the material public sphere. Explicitly organised …
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Visuals and the Invisible in the ‘Forgotten’ War in Ukraine: Combating Clichés of War Photography through Social Media
Media coverage of war relies on military clichés, or tropes of war photography – tanks, soldiers, explosions, crying women, pitiable refugees – which make the situation immediately recognizable for the …
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Listening to Ethnic Identity Online: Digitally Mediated Finno-Ugric Music Traditions in St. Petersburg
What does it mean to listen to an ethnic identity online and what are the digital tools that ethnic minority groups use to become ‘the listened-to’ within the dominant society? …
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Rainbow Mary and the Perceived Threat of LGBTQ+ Bodies in Poland
Examining the powerful protest art piece Rainbow Mary [Tęczowa Madonna] by Elżbieta Podleśna, this piece considers the reasons for Polish homophobia and transphobia as expressed by recent events including the …
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‘Я – ГЕЙ! (I am gay!)’: Russian Coming Out Video Narratives on YouTube
In this paper I examine YouTube “coming out” videos posted by Russian LGBT YouTubers in order to understand the narrative features that they share, such as when someone first came …
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