Russian Cyberspace is a consortium of scholars concerned with Russian and Eastern European new media studies. The network represents scholars from various disciplines (political science, cultural and media studies, literary studies, linguistics, international relations, popular culture studies, and studies in visual culture).
Russian Cyberspace aims to explore a variety of existing and emerging social, cultural, and political phenomena on the Russian-speaking Internet, both in and outside of Russia. Our main points of interest are net politics, social networking, media identities, net culture, and literature. Russia Cyberspace activities also include events and conferences, as well as maintaining a blog, publishing an online journal, and other research projects
The Russian Cyberspace Blog is intended to enhance online analytical discussion of Russian Internet culture. In Russian, German and English, new media specialists regularly post on all things related to Runet, with a particular interest in scholarly inquiries. The blog is a digital forum set to facilitate the exchange of analytical thoughts and questions about the Russian Internet. Entries cover linguistics and mass media, as well as cultural, historical, sociological, political, literary, and artistic developments. The bloggers share theoretical musings, distribute calls for papers and conference announcements, and discuss recent events. Comments and questions from the blog's readers are especially encouraged.
The Russian Cyberspace Journal is an online publication that appears twice per year. The issues are organized thematically, focusing on timely issues and topics related to the study of Russian, Eurasian and Central European new media. Articles from scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds as well as artists’ contributions, interviews, book reviews, comments, and discussions are invited. The journal is published in three languages, English, German, and Russian. The journal is a multi-media platform, celebrating cyberspace as a variety of information flows. The journal editors and the advisory board are comprised of young but distinguished academics and net practitioners from across the globe.
The Russian Cyberspace Research Project was initiated in 2004 as an interdisciplinary research project, initially funded by Volkswagen Foundation and German Research Foundation DFG. Since January 2008, Russian-Cyberspace.org's activities have expanded, and now include a group of scholars from Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, the UK, and the United States. The Russian Cyberspace Research Project aims to encourage academic work in the field of Russian new media studies and provides a research platform for scholars from various disciplines and countries. We wish to share the results of our research with a broader public sphere, especially through cooperation with broadcasting and print media, art networks, policy forums, and public institutions.