Book chapter
Виртуальные сообщества жителей многоквартирных домов в социальной сети vk.com
In this paper we explore the main patterns of communication of apartment buildings’ residents in St. Petersburg on social networking site “VK”. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), we discovered discussion topics in online groups created by residents for their houses. We find that online communication in these groups has instrumental character and is aimed at solving common problems of residents. Apart from that, co-membership analysis showed that participants of groups created for fighting with in-fill constructions are more involved in various citywide activities than participants of groups created for solving internal problems of house (e.g. unsatisfactory work of the management company or leaking ceilings).
The 2013 Social Media Guidebook explores the potential and the challenges of social media and the right to freedom of expression as new media develop. The autors address contemporary issues affecting journalism and media in general. For journalists, consultants, regulatory officials and undergraduate and graduate students.
This part is focused on Russian social media, especially: Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki and Mail.ru - MoiMir, which are the first ones on russian social media market and the most popular in Russia.
Author shows business models and monetization of those web-sites.
This article investigates technologies of media coverage of election campaign in the USA in 2012 in order to discover new tactics and their effect on political contest of the candidates. With the help of comparative analysis of previously implemented technologies and empirical generalization of the data, received during investigation of survey results, the study aims at answering the question: what technologies of media coverage are preferred nowadays in the USA and what the results of their implementations are. While investigating the study of Gallop and Pew Research Center data was carried out. As a result the following conclusions were made: the trust of American citizens in traditional media has decreased dramatically for the last years. This circumstance caused the increase of popularity of new media. Modern technologies of media coverage in the Internet in the USA is considered as a means of the development of democracy and civil society, motivation of individual to participate in political activities if the society, a new means for realization of free speech and widening the access to information for citizens. The article presents the analysis of implementation of new communication technologies by candidates in the presidential elections in 2012 in the USA. The analysis showed that despite the negative type of information, presented by new media, the volume of this information is the only point that matters. The distribution of even negative information about the candidate contributes to his popularization among American people.
The article considers the phenomenon of nostalgia for the late Soviet times. The author presents the results of his observations over the nostalgia segment of the Russian blogosphere. The article is based on the concepts of the past, collective memory and nostalgia, which have been worked out by M. Halbwachs, D. Lowenthal and S. Boym.
The article derives from the results of ethnographic research conducted by the author in 2003- 2010 and draws on fi eldwork data and focused biographical interviews (2007-2010) with technical specialists working in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk, and Rostov-on-Don. The goal of the article is to take the area known as data recovery for a case study and illustrate the active part that user communities play in maintaining computerized technologies, developing innovations, and shaping technological service markets.
We consider blogs not just as a kind of mass media resource, but as a source of collectively produced opinions that is of significant interest to the researcher. In particular, the question of the possibility of studying the everyday attribution of responsibility and blame in a situation of a terrorist attack by analyzing blog posts.
The 2013 Social Media Guidebook explores the potential and the challenges of social media and the right to freedom of expression as new media develop. The autors address contemporary issues affecting journalism and media in general. For journalists, consultants, regulatory officials and undergraduate and graduate students.