Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

Daria Gritsenko is Assistant Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland, affiliated with the Aleksanteri Institute and the Helsinki Center for Digital Humanities (HELDIG). She is Co-Founder of Digital Russia Studies, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working at the intersection of ‘digital’ and ‘social’ in Russia and beyond.Mariëlle Wijermars is Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics at Maastricht University, Netherlands. She is Co-Founder of Digital Russia Studies and Editor of the journal Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media. She co-edited Freedom of Expression in Russia’s New Mediasphere (2020).Mikhail Kopotev is Academic Supervisor of the MA program in Language Technology at HSE University, Russia, and Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include Corpus Linguistics, quantitative analysis of big textual data, plagiarism detection, and computer-assisted language learning. He is the author of Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (2014) and a co-editor of Quantitative Approaches to the Russian Language (2018).

• 1. Digital Russia Studies: An Introduction.- 2. The digitalization of Russian politics and political participation.- 3. E-Government in Russia: Plans, Reality, and Future Outlook.- 4. Russia’s Digital Economy Program: An Effective Strategy for Digital Transformation?.- 5. Law and Digitization in Russia.- 6. Personal Data Protection in Russia.- 7. Cyber-Crime and Punishment: Security, Information War, and the future of RuNet.- 8. Digital activism in Russia: The evolution and forms of online participation in an authoritarian state.- 9. Digital Journalism: Toward a theory of journalistic practice in the twenty-first century.- 10. Digitalization of Russian education: Changing actors and spaces of governance.- 11. Shifting the norm: the case of academic plagiarism.- 12. Digitalization of religion in Russia: adjusting preaching to new formats, channels and platforms.- 13. Doing Gender Online: Digital Spaces for Identity Politics.- 14. Digitalization of consumption in Russia: Online platforms, regulations and consumer behavior.- 15. Digital Art: A sourcebook of ideas for conceptualising new practices, networks and modes of self-expression.- 16. From Samizdat to New Sincerity. Digital Literature on the Russian-language Internet.- 17. Run Runet Runaway: The Transformation of the Russian Internet as a Cultural-Historical Object.- 18. Corpora in text-based Russian studies.- 19. RuThes Thesaurus for Natural Language Processing.- 20. Social media based research of interpersonal and group communication in Russia.- 21. Digitizing Archives in Russia: Epistemic Sovereignty and Its Challenges in the Digital Age.- 22. Affordances of Digital Archives: A Case of Prozhito archive of personal diaries.- 23. Open Government Data in Russia.- 24. Topic modeling in Russia: current approaches and issues in methodology.- 25. Topic Modeling Russian History.- 26. Studying ideational change in Russian politics with topicmodels and word embeddings.- 27. Deep Learning for the Russian Language.- 28. Automatic Sentiment Analysis of Texts: Case of Russian.- 29. Social Network Analysis in Russian Literary Studies.- 30. Tweeting Russian politics: studying on-line political dynamics.- 31. The State of the Art: Surveying Digital Russian Art History.- 32. Geospatial data analysis in Russia’s geoweb.