Ten Years of Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media: Statements on the Field

Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media. 2020. No. 20. P. 65–86.

Lapina-Kratasyuk E., Chapman A., Goroshko O., Hofmann T., Howanitz G., Rajagopalan S., Rutten E., Saunders R., Schmidt H., Strukov V., Trubina E., Zvereva V.

Issue 20 celebrates ten years of Digital Icons. As an integral part of this celebratory issue we want to paint a broad picture of the changes Runet underwent in the last decade. In order to achieve this goal, we asked leading scholars in the field—among them most of the authors of Digital Icons 1—for short statements: Did Runet change in the past ten years, and if so, how? Has this change affected the academic or professional field in which you work? Did the field itself change? Have your methods and theories of study evolved? Based on the answers we received from Olena Goroshko, Tatjana Hofmann, Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk, Sudha Rajagopalan, Ellen Rutten, Robert A. Saunders, Henrike Schmidt, Elena Trubina and Vera Zvereva, we compiled a panorama of ten years of Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media.

Keywords: новые медиа, new media, Runet, Рунет