The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies.

• Author: Gritsenko, Daria.
• TeilnehmendeR: Wijermars, Mariëlle.; Kopotev, Mikhail.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (620 pages)

Table of Contents

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Digital Russia Studies: An Introduction -- 1.1 Area Studies Go Digital -- 1.2 Studying Digital Russia -- 1.3 Digital Sources and Methods -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part I: Studying Digital Russia -- Chapter 2: The Digitalization of Russian Politics and Political Participation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Open Government -- 2.3 Political Communication -- 2.4 Political Campaigning -- 2.5 Voting -- 2.6 Civic Tech and Civic Engagement -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: E-Government in Russia: Plans, Reality, and Future Outlook -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Digitalization and Government-Why and How? -- 3.2.1 Motivations for e-Government Uptake -- 3.2.2 Stages of e-Government Development -- 3.3 Russian Government's Digitalization Story -- 3.3.1 Towards an e-Government (2002-2009) -- 3.3.2 Building e-Government (2011-2015) -- 3.3.3 Beyond the e-Government-Government as a Platform (2016-Now) -- 3.4 Regional and Local Dimension of e-Government -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: Russia's Digital Economy Program: An Effective Strategy for Digital Transformation? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Putting "Digital" in Perspective: Theories of Technological Change -- 4.3 Russia on the Global Digital Market -- 4.4 Analysis of the Digital Economy Program: Definitions, Goals, and Indicators -- 4.4.1 Definition of the Digital Economy -- 4.4.2 Goals of the Programs -- 4.4.3 Levels of the Digital Economy -- 4.4.4 Cross-Cutting Technologies -- 4.5 Russia's Digital Economy Program: Management System -- 4.5.1 Multiple Decision Centers -- 4.5.2 A Single System of Rules -- 4.5.3 A Spontaneous Order? -- 4.6 Criticism of the Program and Weaknesses of the Government's Digitalization Strategy.

4.6.1 Imitation and Copying of Western Models -- 4.6.2 Emphasis on Services to the Detriment of Production -- 4.6.3 Preservation of Technological Dependence -- 4.6.4 Lack of Scientific Support -- 4.6.5 Lack of Reliable ICT Infrastructure -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Law and Digitization in Russia -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Open Government Project and Digitalization of Law -- 5.3 E-justice: Digitalization and Legal Procedure -- 5.4 Law and Digital Economy: Blockchain and Crowdfunding -- 5.5 Cyberlaw and Regulation of Runet -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References -- Legal Sources -- Chapter 6: Personal Data Protection in Russia -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Ground Rules -- 6.2.1 Legal Framework -- 6.2.2 Enforcing Authorities -- 6.2.3 Main Categories of Data Protection Legislation -- 6.2.4 Transfer Outside of Russia -- 6.2.5 Territorial Scope of Application -- 6.3 Localization Requirement -- 6.3.1 Subjects of the Obligation -- 6.3.2 Registry of Infringers -- 6.3.3 Amplification of Fines for Infringement -- 6.4 Yarovaya Law -- 6.4.1 Storing Requirement -- 6.4.2 Encryption Keys -- 6.5 Sovereign Runet -- 6.5.1 Russian Informational Security -- 6.5.2 Runet Law -- 6.6 A New Interpretation of Personal Data -- 6.7 Conclusion -- References -- Legal Sources -- Chapter 7: Cybercrime and Punishment: Security, Information War, and the Future of Runet -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Freedom of Speech vs. the Governmental Control of the Runet -- 7.3 Surveillance -- 7.4 Cyber Warfare vs. Information Warfare -- 7.5 Internet Sovereignty -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Digital Activism in Russia: The Evolution and Forms of Online Participation in an Authoritarian State -- 8.1 Introduction: Evolution of Online Activism in Russia -- 8.2 Theorizing Online Activism -- 8.2.1 Defining Online Activism -- 8.2.2 Types of Online Activism.

8.2.3 Online Activism as Connective Action -- 8.3 Online Activism in Today's Russia -- 8.3.1 Empirical Data on Russian Activism -- 8.3.2 Communicative Online Activism: Alexei Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation -- 8.3.3 Technoactivism: The Example of Telegram -- 8.3.3.1 Telegram's Legal Battle Against the Russian Security Service -- 8.3.3.2 Technological Resistance by Telegram -- 8.3.4 Non-contentious Forms of Online Activism -- 8.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9: Digital Journalism: Toward a Theory of Journalistic Practice in the Twenty-First Century -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 "Alternative" Journalism -- 9.3 All Journalism Is Digital Journalism -- 9.4 Historical Overview of Russian and Russophone Digital Journalism -- 9.5 Typological Overview of Russian and Russophone Digital Journalism -- References -- Chapter 10: Digitalization of Russian Education: Changing Actors and Spaces of Governance -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Policy Context -- 10.3 The Rise of New Actors and Actor Assemblages -- 10.4 Datafication Extending Spaces of Governance -- 10.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Digitalization of Religion in Russia: Adjusting Preaching to New Formats, Channels and Platforms -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Russian Religious Landscape -- 11.3 Digitalization and Religion: Normative Aspects -- 11.4 Religious Responses to the Challenge of Digitalization -- 11.5 Sacred and Profane: Digital Remapping -- 11.6 Challenges of Digitalization in Religious Perspective -- 11.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Doing Gender Online: Digital Spaces for Identity Politics -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Constructing Gender Online -- 12.3 Digital Services for (wo)men: Creating Gender-Specific Spaces -- 12.4 Women's and Queer Online Activism -- 12.5 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 13: Digitalization of Consumption in Russia: Online Platforms, Regulations and Consumer Behavior -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 E-commerce, M-commerce and Online Shopping -- 13.2.1 E-commerce, M-commerce -- 13.2.1.1 Russian E-commerce Retailers -- 13.2.1.2 New Retail Platforms -- 13.2.2 The Profile of Online Consumers -- 13.2.3 Online Cross-Border Shopping -- 13.2.3.1 Regulation of the Online Cross-Border Shopping -- 13.3 Online Exchanges: Sharing Economy and Collaborative Consumption -- 13.3.1 Types of Sharing Economy -- 13.3.2 Participants of Sharing Economy -- 13.3.3 Drivers and Barriers of Sharing Economy -- 13.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: Digital Art: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Conceptualizing New Practices, Networks and Modes of Self-Expression -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Re-structuring the Image:4 Olga Tobreluts and the Digital Collage (the 1980s and the 1990s) -- 14.3 Re-wiring the East: Olia Lialina and net.art (the 1990s) -- 14.4 Mini and Maxi: Global Visions from Oleg Kuvaev and AES+F (the 2000s and 2010s) -- 14.5 The Digital Archive: Cyland and Cyfest (the 2000s and the 2010s) -- References -- Chapter 15: From Samizdat to New Sincerity. Digital Literature on the Russian-Language Internet -- 15.1 Introduction. The Hybrid Nature of Digital Literature -- 15.2 Literary Practices/Literary Facts on the Runet: Definitions and Approaches -- 15.3 The Russian-Language Internet (Runet): Horizontal Versus Vertical Communication Patterns -- 15.4 Literary Practices on the Runet: Libraries and Life-Writing -- 15.4.1 Digitized Literature: Forming the Canon from Below -- 15.4.2 Hypertext Digressions and Media Criticism -- 15.4.3 Bottom-Up Creativity: Amateur Literature, Fan Fiction, kreatiff -- 15.4.4 Blogging: Non-literariness and New Sincerity -- 15.4.5 Social Networks: Life-Writing, Public Expression and "Prosumer Capitalism".

15.5 Fields of Research: Toward Mixed Methods -- 15.6 Conclusions: Content Outplays Code -- References -- Chapter 16: Run Runet Runaway: The Transformation of the Russian Internet as a Cultural-Historical Object -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Runet as an Object: Theoretical and Historical Approaches -- 16.3 Runet as a Runaway Object -- 16.4 The Vectors of Runet Development: Defining Runet as an Object in a Cultural-Historical Context -- 16.5 The History of Runet Through Five Vectors -- 16.5.1 The Technological Vector: From Enthusiasts to Corporations -- 16.5.2 The Cultural Vector: From Alternative to Mainstream -- 16.5.3 The Media Vector: From Alternative Media to State Control -- 16.5.4 The User Vector: From Elites to Everyday Usage -- 16.5.5 The Political Vector: From Democratic Promise to Digital Sovereignty -- 16.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Digital Sources and Methods -- Chapter 17: Corpora in Text-Based Russian Studies -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 The Web as a Corpus -- 17.3 Electronic Libraries -- 17.4 Linguistic Corpora2 -- 17.4.1 The Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru) -- 17.4.1.1 Case Study: Tracking Collective Memory Through "Decade Constructions"3 -- 17.4.2 Integrum (www.integrumworld.com) -- 17.4.2.1 Case Study: Political Buzzwords in Russian4 -- 17.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18: RuThes Thesaurus for Natural Language Processing -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Thesauri in NLP an IR -- 18.2.1 WordNet Thesaurus and Wordnets -- 18.2.2 Information Retrieval Thesauri -- 18.3 RuThes Structure, Units, and Relations -- 18.3.1 RuThes General Structure -- 18.3.2 RuThes Units -- 18.3.3 RuThes Relations -- 18.4 Description of Social and Political Concepts in RuThes -- 18.5 RuThes as a Source for Russian WordNet -- 18.6 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 19: Social Media-based Research of Interpersonal and Group Communication in Russia.