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Интернет-версии печатных СМИ: опыт классификации
The article discusses the phenomenon of interconnected glocal hospitality communities which have recently spread over the world in the context of the internet development and cultural globalization processes. It focuses on a typical community of users of CouchSurfi ng.org, a major social hospitality network in St. Petersburg. The author argues that, in the framework of this web service, there occurs a transformation of virtual groups of users localized in various spots of the globe into actual interconnected glocal communities which shape shared identities, norms, values, and practices among its members.
The article deals with the German youth language characteristic for Internet sites. The research is carried out on the material of German-speaking web resources: forums, chats, social networks, entertaining and game portals. Youth net-work lexicon is divided into some thematic groups, its peculiar features are analyzed.