[aaus-list] CfP: Post-Soviet Internet, New York 7.-9.5.10 (1.2.)

[Andreas Umland]

CALL FOR PAPERS: POST-SOVIET INTERNET

With this we want to make you aware of a conference, The Etiology and
Ecology of Post-Soviet Communication, which we have planned for the
weekend of May 7-8(-9) 2010 at the Harriman Institute of Columbia, in
New York City. The focus of the conference will be the development of
the internet in the post-Soviet space, first and foremost Russia,
though comparative work that goes beyond this geographical focus is
also of interest.

We anticipate panels on such questions as: emergence and evolution of
social networks; patterns of interlinking; the phenomenon of social
contagion in online communications; political clustering in the
blogosphere and beyond; public versus private identities;
doublethink, cynicism, coded language; the emergence of opinion
leaders in the blogosphere; freedom of the press on the internet;
forms and degrees of censorship, online activism/social movements on
the internet; dissenters and political activism; democracy to
autocracy in the Russian internet.

We would welcome one-page abstracts sent to

nmc.conference at gmail.com

by February 1, 2010.


Yours truly,

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#Cathy
Catharine Nepomnyashchy,

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#Alan
Alan Timberlake

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#Guobin
Guobin Yang (Project Leaders)

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#Eugene
Eugene Gorny

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#Florian
Florian Toepfl (Project Coordinators)