
Contents
Editors’ Foreword
Forum 14: The Internet and Academic Life
Maria Akhmetova, Andrei Alekseev, Igor Alimov, Yuri Berezkin, Michael Burawoy, Larisa Fialkova, Ivan Grinko, Katerina Guba, Vladimir Ilyin, Mikhail Krasikov, Roman Leibov, Mikhail Matlin, Natalia Mazur, Valentina Metalnikova, Irina Nazarova, Elena Nosenko-Shtein, Darya Radchenko, Ilya Utekhin, Anna Zhelnina, Tatiana Zolotova, Natalia Efimova
Articles
Zinaida Vasilyeva. Video-Mediated Communicative Interaction: An Analysis
Sergei Alymov. ‘Perestroika’ in the Russian Provinces
Political Action and the Internet: The Mass Protests in December 2011
Dmitry Gromov. Mass Protests in Moscow Through the Eyes of Anthropologists, Folklorists and Sociologists
Darya Radchenko, Dina Pisarevskaya, Irina Ksenofontova. The Logic of Virtual Protest
Anna Sokolova, Maria Golovina, Elizaveta Semirkhanova. The ‘Bandar-Log’ in Sakharov Prospect
Dmitry Gromov. ‘We Are Not the Opposition, We Are the People’
Mikhail Alekseevsky. Who Are All these People (the Ones with Placards)?
Andrei Moroz. Protest Folklore in December 2011
Maria Akhmetova. …And the Bandar-Log Have Come: Vladimir Putin’s Statement and the ‘Folk Placard’
Alexandra Arkhipova. Jokes about Putin and the Elections Ten Years On, or, Is There a Folklore of the ‘Snow Revolution’?
Reviews
Folk-ar t-net: novye gorizonty tvrorchestva. Ot traditsii — k virtualnosti. Sbornik statei. M.: Gosudarstvennyi respublikanskii tsentr russkogo folklora, 2007. 200 p.;
Internet i folklor: sbornik statei [The Internet and Folklore: Collected Articles]. M.: Gosudarstvennyi respublikanskii tsentr russkogo folklora, 2009. 320 p. (Dmitry Gromov)
Hyperlinks and Power Points: Public and Private in the Russian Internet. Control + Shift: Publichnoe i lichnoe v russkom internete. Sbornik statei [The Public and the Private in the Russian Internet. Collected Articles]. M: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2009. 336 p. (Darya Radchenko)