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On the Internet, readers of Russian literature create online communities (fandoms), in which users experiment with classical literature and construct their own versions of source texts. Although each separate fandom is dedicated to a particular classical work, authors (ficwriters) compare different classical texts and construct a common artistic space based on those. The article deals with the content and boundaries of the online corpus of amateur works based on Russian classical literature. The research subject is fanfics in which artistic worlds of several classical works are combined (crossovers). There are distinguished two forms of modeling a common artistic space in fandoms dedicated to Russian classical literature: 1) through the character's outlook and transformation of the traditional loci; 2) through the narrator's outlook and creation of an unstable space. The first form involves separating space into 'public' and 'intimate'; the second form is based on the division of space into 'sacred' and 'ordinary'. To describe the connection of fanfics based on classical literature but published in different fandoms, we use the concept 'superfandom', which is a corpus of fanfics based on different classical works where texts are united by the types of transformation of original sources and by common strategies of readers' reception. This binary typology of space reflects the features of perception of Russian classical literature in communities originally created by popular literature fans. On the one hand, ficwriters regard classical literature as an object of honoring; on the other hand, they use the poetics of space from different classical sources to show their own artistic preferences, including acceptance or rejection of Russian classical literature.

Intro -- New Media and the Politics of Online Communities -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Concepts of Cyberspace and Cyberculture -- Electronic Kairos -- Authenticity Online: Using Webnography to Address Phenomenological Concerns -- PART II: Cyberculture, National Identity and Diaspora -- Stresses Upon An Emergent Imagined Community: Results and Insights from the Emirates Internet Project -- The Role of Online Communities in Social Networking among Polish Migrants in the United Kingdom -- Emerging Communication Practices and Immigrant Adolescents in their Developmental Process -- PART III: Fan Cultures Online -- The Darker Side of Slash Fanfiction on the Internet -- Virtual Friends: Experiences of an Online Fan Community -- Music Blogs, Music Scenes, Sub-Cultural Capital: Emerging Practices in Music Blogs -- PART IV: Cultures on Online Learning -- E-Learning 2.0 as Reciprocal Learning -- New Media Literacies of Future Mother Tongue Teachers -- PART V: Changing Identities in Cyberspace -- Cloakroom Communities and Cyberspace: Towards a Concept of 'Pseudo-Environmental' Niche -- Identity Representations through Machinima Creation -- Artistic Identity within Cyberspace: Issues go Global, Interdisciplinary Projects do Evolve - A Personal View -- PART VI: The Future Platforms -- Machinimation Tools and their Impact on Creativity -- Media Convergence and the Future of Online Platforms -- Gaming Potential of Augmented Reality -- PART VII: Controversial Issues in Cyberlife -- Election 2.0: How to Use Cyber Platforms to Win the US Presidential Elections - An Investigation into the Changing Communication Strategies of Election Candidates -- Click Here to Protest: Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Future of Social Mobilisation -- Cybertrauma and Technocultural Shock in Contemporary Media Culture.

Our Special Issue captures the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs' search for more stable governing models at crossroads of global, regional, and national challenges through systematic and integrated analyses of evolving and contested Arab visual and performing arts, including media (traditional and alternative), in revolutionary and unstable public spheres. This special issue examines the role of new media in the construction of online communities in the Arab world. It contributes to the understanding of how user-generated content empowers these new publics and the novel communities established by user comments on social media and news websites. Specifically, it explores these online communities and their perceptions of the role of user-generated content to contribute to politics, and potentially engage other citizens in the public debate.

The article is devoted to pressing issues related to the educational, cultural and enlightening functions of the virtual network communities of the Kola Sami. The results of an empirical study are presented, the purpose of which is a quantitative and qualitative characteristic of the scientific, educational, cultural and educational content of the Sami network resources. The study showed that the educational potential of online communities targeting Sami users is significantly inferior to the capabilities of resources created for a wider audience. Cultural and educational content is most diverse in communities created on the individual initiative of cyber activists. Most Sámi virtual communities are not well developed in terms of user interaction technologies. The factors of interacting destructive processes in online and offline spaces that impede the activities of communities are identified.

Machine generated contents note:1.Introduction --Why Italy, Why the M5S --Political Participation --What Does the Internet Change for Political Participation? --What Does the Internet Change for Political Organisation --What Does the Internet Change for Political Deliberation? --Citizen Users, Communities and Crowds --Outline of the Book --References --2.The Emergence of the Citizen User --Decline in Trust --Internet Users --References --3.Mobilisation and Elections --The Mobilisation of the Citizen User and the Creation of the M5S --Internet and legacy Media in the Electoral Trajectory of the M5S --The M5S in the Ideology Space --References --4.Online Communities and Online Crowds --The Media Ecology of the M5S Community --Participation on the M5S Media System --References --5.Online Discussion Within the M5S Community --Issues, Topics and Style on the Forum --Discussion Networks --References --6.The M5S Community and Citizen's Income --Mapping Documents in the Concept Space --The GMI Debate: Offline and Online --References --7.By the Crowd, for the People? --Internet-Enabled Organisation Beyond the M5S and Italy --Asymmetric Online Deliberation --Citizen User and Democracy --Crowd-Mediated Politics.

Machine generated contents note:1.Introduction --Why Italy, Why the M5S --Political Participation --What Does the Internet Change for Political Participation? --What Does the Internet Change for Political Organisation --What Does the Internet Change for Political Deliberation? --Citizen Users, Communities and Crowds --Outline of the Book --References --2.The Emergence of the Citizen User --Decline in Trust --Internet Users --References --3.Mobilisation and Elections --The Mobilisation of the Citizen User and the Creation of the M5S --Internet and legacy Media in the Electoral Trajectory of the M5S --The M5S in the Ideology Space --References --4.Online Communities and Online Crowds --The Media Ecology of the M5S Community --Participation on the M5S Media System --References --5.Online Discussion Within the M5S Community --Issues, Topics and Style on the Forum --Discussion Networks --References --6.The M5S Community and Citizen's Income --Mapping Documents in the Concept Space --The GMI Debate: Offline and Online --References --7.By the Crowd, for the People? --Internet-Enabled Organisation Beyond the M5S and Italy --Asymmetric Online Deliberation --Citizen User and Democracy --Crowd-Mediated Politics.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Why Italy, Why the M5S -- Political Participation -- What Does the Internet Change for Political Participation? -- What Does the Internet Change for Political Organisation? -- What Does the Internet Change for Political Deliberation? -- Citizen Users, Communities and Crowds -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Emergence of the Citizen User -- Decline in Trust -- What Is Trust and Why We Should Care -- Political Trust in Italy -- Beppe Grillo Internet Operation to Weaken Trust -- Internet Users -- Internet and Mobile Technologies -- Users: Mobilising and Organising -- Internet-Mediated Citizenship -- References -- Chapter 3: Mobilisation and Elections -- The Mobilisation of the Citizen User and the Creation of the M5S -- Beppe Grillo Before beppegrillo.it -- Blog -- Meetup -- V-Day -- Municipal Lists -- To the Five Star Movement -- Internet and Legacy Media in the Electoral Trajectory of the M5S -- Why the 2013 Result Was Unexpected -- The Diffusion of Meetups and the M5S Electoral Trajectory -- Two-Layered Architecture for Mobilisation and Communication -- Legacy Media in the 1994 and 2013 Campaigns -- The M5S in the Ideology Space -- The Left-Right Dimension and the Anti-Establishment Dimension in Italy -- The Electoral Programs of the M5S -- The M5S Ontology and Parent Ideology -- References -- Chapter 4: Online Communities and Online Crowds -- The Media Ecology of the M5S Community -- ICTs Diffusion in Italy -- Blog as Medium and Message -- From Blog to Community -- The Media System -- Participation on the M5S Media System -- Everyday Political Talk of Networked Users -- Measuring the Online Activity Within the M5S Community -- Where Users Enter the Media System -- Users' Copresence Across Platforms -- The Role of Gender.

This article discusses the texts posted in migrant groups in social networks, on forums and YouTube-channels. It is hypothesized that legalization in a host country becomes a common and crucial topic for migrant groups: the potential trajectories of users' moving to a city or a country, as well as the tactics of their integration into the host community, may depend on how legality is defined in a particular migrantgroup. Legalization is often defined by users as a meaningless, humiliating and tedious procedure, which is more of a ritual nature than of any practical significance, recalling the rite of passage. The article suggests that the ritual nature of the migrant legalization procedure leads to the fact that many of them are looking for ways to avoid it even at the initial stage of their migration process, using the Internet community as a tool to reduce the expenses associated with attaining legality. The selection of the material and its subsequent analysis was carried out with the help of digital ethnography, namely — online observation.

2019 Summer. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; The 2017 Women's March on Washington marked a significant moment in contemporary U.S. political history as hundreds of thousands of women gathered on the National Mall in an expression of embodied dissent. Key women's movement groups, Pantsuit Nation and the Pussyhat Project, operated as powerful collectives in the time leading up to the 2016 presidential election and the subsequent 2017 Women's March. Their transition from sites of rhetorical secrecy to embracing the strategic publicity of the 2017 Women's March illuminates how ego-function, reversed symbolism, and consciousness raising impact social movements in our digital age. To understand how social movement groups navigate rhetorical secrecy and strategic publicity, this thesis explores how the ego-functional responses of Pantsuit Nation and the Pussyhat Project led to the deployment of specific rhetorical tactics to cultivate collective identities. I argue that the transitionary process from rhetorical secrecy to rhetorical publicity allows collectives to legitimate and orient themselves as key political actors. This thesis also calls scholars to mindfully attend to the ramifications digital technologies have on our understandings of rhetorical strategies and structures, particularly as they pertain to contemporary social movements.

Despite the increasing citizen engagement with socio-political online communities, little is known about how such communities are affected by significant offline events. Thus, we investigate here the ways in which the collective identity of a far-right online community is affected by offline intergroup conflict. We examine over 14 years of online communication between members of Stormfront Downunder, the Australian sub-forum of the global white supremacist community Stormfront.org . We analyse members' language use and discourse before and after significant intergroup conflict in 2015, culminating in local racist riots in Sydney, Australia. We found that the riots were associated with significant changes in the collective beliefs of the community (as captured by members' most salient concerns and group norms), emotions and consensus within the community. Overall, the effects of the local riots were manifest in a reinvigorated sense of purpose for the far-right community with a stronger anti-Muslim agenda.