Even if our heroes survive the season, their future looks bleak.
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Vasily Gatov
“Russian affairs” have became a hot topic taken up by writers who lack the proper expertise or necessary restraint
Continue reading...#quitseelangs
Philip Gleissner
If you say the word SEELANGS to a Slavist, they will most likely respond by rolling their eyes.
Continue reading...Is “fake news” fake news?
Eliot Borenstein
Behind the @RodionTweets Curtain: the Nuts and Bolts of Twitterifying Dostoevsky
Kristina McGuirk
At one point, Sarah Hudspith said she had to fight the urge to write “Sh*t! Got blood on my iPhone! #murderproblems”
Continue reading...Tweets in the Fog: Time and the Crime and Punishment End Game
Katherine Bowers
Regarding the Pain of Others: Tweeting Book V of Crime & Punishment
Jennifer Wilson
Diary of a Tweeter: On Golyadkin, Raskolnikov, and the Search for Empathy
Brian Armstrong
Tweets of a Ridiculous Man: Rethinking the Narrative Structure of Crime and Punishment through Twitter
Kate Holland
My biggest quandary was how to treat the conversation between Raskolnikov and Porfiry.
Continue reading...On Tweeting Part One of Crime and Punishment
Sarah Hudspith
Dinissa Duvanova tackles social media and political behavior in Ukraine
Anastassia Kostrioukova
On February 13, 2015, the Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series welcomed Dinissa Duvanova, an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University, to speak about her recent research on online social activism in Ukraine. The colloquium, titled Social Networks as a Barometer of Political Polarization, took on a collegial tone, often turning into a conversation between the presenter and the audience about the project itself as well as general problems concerning online data collection and analysis.
Russian Consumer Smackdown: Television vs. the Fridge
Olga Shevchenko
The inevitable refrain “We have seen worse!” implied that there was nothing about the current recession that Russian citizens hadn’t competently handled before.
Continue reading...Crimea and the Jewish Problem
Eliot Borenstein
When the words “Russia” “Ukraine” and “Jews” appear in the same English-language sentence, I prepare for the worst.
Continue reading...Digital Slavists, Unite?
Marijeta Bozovic
Marijeta Bozovic is an Assistant Professor of Russian & Eurasian Studies at Colgate University.
Dear colleagues and comrades,
This blog-post grows from a group discussion that began over Facebook, and includes input from Eliot Borenstein, Serguei Oushakine, Kevin Platt, Katie Holt, Bella Grigoryan, Maksim Hanukai, Rossen Djagalov, Jesse Labov, and Roman Utkin.
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