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Семантический анализ кавказских групп «ВКонтакте»
Many young people from the Caucasus (both from independent states and the republics of North Caucasus) live in respective diasporas in many cities all around Russian Federation as their parents moved there earlier or because they went to study in Russian universities. Social network sites provide them with powerful tools to form e-diasporas and engage in identity work, forging networked virtual communities with different identity labels. We study diaspora groups from the Caucasus on VKontakte (VK), Russian social network service most popular among young Internet users in the fSU - about 195 million accounts by December 2012. In particular we interested in groups and public pages that create virtual communities with local identities ("We are from Baku") or regional 'supra-ethnic' identities ("Men from Caucasus are cool" or "United Caucasus"). In this paper, we discuss the issues of ethnic relations using SNA of ethnic groups "Vkontakte" and preliminary results group posts topic analysis.