Eurasia 2.0 : Russian geopolitics in the age of new media /
edited by Mark Bassin and Mikhail Suslov.
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
- xxxiii, 340 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Russian digital lifestyle media and the construction of global selves / Saara Ratilainen -- Crossing borders/road movies in Russia : the road to nowhere? : destinations in recent Russian cinema / Brigit Beumers -- Digital storytelling on youtube : the geo-political factor in Russian vernacular regional identities / Galina Zvereva -- Uses of Eurasia : the Kremlin, the Eurasian Union, and the Izborsky Club / Andrei Tsygankov -- Digital geopolitics encapsulated : Geidar Dzhemal between Islamism, occult fascism and Eurasianism / Marlène Laruelle -- Russia as an alternative model : geopolitical representations and Russia's public diplomacy : the case of Rossotrudnichestvo / Sirke Mäkinen -- Putin's third term and Russia as a great power / Hanna Smith -- Future empire : state-sponsored Eurasian identity promotion among Russian youth / Fabian Linde -- Russian geopolitical discourse : on pseudomorphosis, phantom pains and simulacra / Per-Arne Bodin -- Digital conservatism : framing patriotism in the era of global journalism / Vlad Strukov -- Invisible battlefield in Belarusian media space fighting "Rsskiimir" from within? / Ryhor Nizhnikau -- Constructing the enemy-other in social media : Facebook as a particular "battlefield" during the Ukrainian crisis / Alla Marchenko and Sergiy Kurbatov -- The imagined geolinguistics of Ukraine / Dirk Uffelmann -- Digital Eurasia : post-Soviet geopolitics in the age of the new media : Euromaidan and the geopolitical struggle for influence on Ukraine via new media / Greg Simons -- The Russian world concept in online debate during the Ukrainian crisis / Mikhail Suslov.
This book focuses on the new phenomenon of digital geopolitics in the former Soviet Union. It considers how media serve as platforms for the contestation of geopolitical ideas and the articulation of new political identities. It explores new possibilities and threats associated with the digitalization of geopolitical knowledge and practice.
9781498521413 (cloth : alk. paper)
2016002165
Geopolitics--Russia (Federation) Geopolitics--Former Soviet republics. Digital media--Political aspects--Russia (Federation) Digital media--Political aspects--Former Soviet republics. Group identity--Russia (Federation) Group identity--Former Soviet republics. Geopolítica--Rusia.
Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--Ukraine. Ukraine--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation) Rusia--Relaciones exteriores.