Author: Anna A. Fedorova
Communicology. 2018. Vol.6. No.4
Anna Aleksandrovna Fedorova, postgraduate student of the department of sociology of the St. Petersburg state University, junior researcher in St. Petersburg branch of Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Address: 199034, Russia, St. Petersburg, University emb., 5. E-mail: an-f@list.ru.
Abstract. The article pinpoints the key research challenges regarding representation of Russian ethnic identity in the Internet, as well as the process of user’s cooperation in certain ethnic groups. Based on the current theoretical and methodological lag of virtual ethnicity researches in Russophone scientific community, the author analyzes the theoretical approaches to the definition of this concept and outlines the main directions of modern theoretical discussions in this particular problem field. In addition, the work provides the description of the main moral and ethical research problems in the landscape of virtual ethnicity, as well as on the major threat that awaits researcher whose scientific subjects include the ethnic identity in the World Wide Web.
Keywords: virtual ethnic identity, ethnic cooperation, digital traces, virtual landscape of ethnicity, social networks, ethics of Internet research
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For citation: Fedorova A.A. The Study of the Virtual Landscape of Russian Ethnic Identity in the Era of Web 2.0. Communicology (Russia). 2018. Vol. 6. No.4. P. 89-98. DOI 10.21453 / 2311-3065-2018-6-4-89-98.
References
Anderson B. (1991). Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
Behm-Morawitz E., Ta D. (2014). Cultivating virtual stereotypes: the impact of video game play on racial/ethnic stereotypes. Howard Journal of Communications. No.25 (1). P. 1-15
Buchanan E., Markham A. (2012). Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0). Chicago: Association of Internet Researchers.
Castells M. (1997). The Power of Identity. Oxford: Blackwell.
Diamandaki K. (2003). Virtual ethnicity and digital diasporas: Identity construction in cyberspace. Global media journal. No.2 (2). P. 26-40.
Eriksen T.H. (2007). Nationalism and the Internet. Nations and Nationalism. No.13 (1). P. 1-17.
Ess C. (2002). Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee. Chicago: Association of Internet Researchers.
Macfadyen L. (2006). Virtual ethnicity: the new digitization of place, body, language and memory. Electronic magazine of multicultural education. No.1.
Nakamura L. (2002). Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge.
O’Reilly T. (2005). What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Poster M. (1998). Virtual ethnicity: Tribal identity in an age of global communications. Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting CMC and community. London: Sage Publications. P. 184-211.
Saunders R. (2011). Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace: The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Thomas J. (1996). Introduction: A Debate about the Ethics of Fair Practices for Collecting Social Science Data in Cyberspace. The Information Society. No.12. P. 107–118.
Zimmer M. (2010). But the data is already public: on the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and Information Technology. No.12 (4). P. 313-325.
Ethics in Internet Research: what to read and what to do to make your research ethically flawless. In: The club of Internet and society fans [el. source]: http://clubforinternet.net/ethics (In Rus.).
Communicology. 2018. Vol.6. No.4
Anna Aleksandrovna Fedorova, postgraduate student of the department of sociology of the St. Petersburg state University, junior researcher in St. Petersburg branch of Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Address: 199034, Russia, St. Petersburg, University emb., 5. E-mail: an-f@list.ru.
Abstract. The article pinpoints the key research challenges regarding representation of Russian ethnic identity in the Internet, as well as the process of user’s cooperation in certain ethnic groups. Based on the current theoretical and methodological lag of virtual ethnicity researches in Russophone scientific community, the author analyzes the theoretical approaches to the definition of this concept and outlines the main directions of modern theoretical discussions in this particular problem field. In addition, the work provides the description of the main moral and ethical research problems in the landscape of virtual ethnicity, as well as on the major threat that awaits researcher whose scientific subjects include the ethnic identity in the World Wide Web.
Keywords: virtual ethnic identity, ethnic cooperation, digital traces, virtual landscape of ethnicity, social networks, ethics of Internet research
Text: PDF
For citation: Fedorova A.A. The Study of the Virtual Landscape of Russian Ethnic Identity in the Era of Web 2.0. Communicology (Russia). 2018. Vol. 6. No.4. P. 89-98. DOI 10.21453 / 2311-3065-2018-6-4-89-98.
References
Anderson B. (1991). Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
Behm-Morawitz E., Ta D. (2014). Cultivating virtual stereotypes: the impact of video game play on racial/ethnic stereotypes. Howard Journal of Communications. No.25 (1). P. 1-15
Buchanan E., Markham A. (2012). Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0). Chicago: Association of Internet Researchers.
Castells M. (1997). The Power of Identity. Oxford: Blackwell.
Diamandaki K. (2003). Virtual ethnicity and digital diasporas: Identity construction in cyberspace. Global media journal. No.2 (2). P. 26-40.
Eriksen T.H. (2007). Nationalism and the Internet. Nations and Nationalism. No.13 (1). P. 1-17.
Ess C. (2002). Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee. Chicago: Association of Internet Researchers.
Macfadyen L. (2006). Virtual ethnicity: the new digitization of place, body, language and memory. Electronic magazine of multicultural education. No.1.
Nakamura L. (2002). Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge.
O’Reilly T. (2005). What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Poster M. (1998). Virtual ethnicity: Tribal identity in an age of global communications. Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting CMC and community. London: Sage Publications. P. 184-211.
Saunders R. (2011). Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace: The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Thomas J. (1996). Introduction: A Debate about the Ethics of Fair Practices for Collecting Social Science Data in Cyberspace. The Information Society. No.12. P. 107–118.
Zimmer M. (2010). But the data is already public: on the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and Information Technology. No.12 (4). P. 313-325.
Ethics in Internet Research: what to read and what to do to make your research ethically flawless. In: The club of Internet and society fans [el. source]: http://clubforinternet.net/ethics (In Rus.).
