Russian-Cyberspace.org: Cultural Identity Performances on the Russian Internet
Workshop at the Lotman Institute for Russian and Soviet Culture (Bochum), 22nd March 2005

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Homepages, forums, weblogs, artistic projects – due to its interactivity the Internet offers vast possibilities for the performance of cultural identity. But is it appropriate to assume the existence of a specific Russian Internet? And what would its specifics be? How is it embedded into today’s Russian society? The workshop attempts to explore some of these multifaceted issues and is considered to contribute to a planned Publication on the same topic.

Speakers

		Henrike Schmidt (Bochum): Cultural Identity and (Counter)Public Spheres on the Russian Internet
			Homepage Henrike Schmidt
			Presentation

		Katy Teubener (Münster): Cultural Identity and (Counter)Public Spheres on the Russian Internet
			Homepage Katy Teubener
			Presentation

		Ekaterina Kratasjuk (Moscow): News for Choice?: Representations of Russian Society in the Mass Media (TV vs. Internet)
			Homepage Institute of European Cultures
			Presentation

		Evgenij Gornyj (London): Russian Live Journal. The Creative Evolution of a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon
			Homepage Evgenij Gornyj
			Presentation

		Olga Gorjunova (Moscow): Russian-Cyberspace: Artistic Activities on the Social and Political Arenas
			Project-Homepage DXLAB.org
			Presentation

		Natasha Konradova (Moscow): Forms of Cultural Self-Description: The Problem of Identity – a Study of Russian Literary Websites
			Homepage Natasha Konradova
			Presentation

		Roman Lejbov (Tartu): The Formation of Expert-Groups. A Scenario for the Development of the Russian Scientific Internet in the Humanities
			Project Homepage Ruthenia.ru
			Presentation

		Nils Zurawski (Hamburg): Transnational Identities on the Russian Internet. Virtual Ethnicity as an Analytical Concept
			Homepage Nils Zurawski
			Presentation