caa a22 4500 445375930 CHVBK 20180317143002.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11212-011-9137-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11212-011-9137-z Schmidt Henrike Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany aut Digital'nye derevenščiki /digital villagers: Russian online projects from the countryside [Elektronische Daten] [Henrike Schmidt] The rapid growth of the Russian Internet offers great advantages, especially for geographical and cultural peripheries. Nevertheless, the locational inequality in Internet usage within the country has not yet been bridged. Meanwhile, some Russian villagers living in the countryside have started to ‘blog back' to the metropolitan centres. How is the Russian village represented in these accounts by digital'nye derevenščiki? What power relations are characteristic of villagers and townspeople, as they meet in online forums and blogs? The case studies presented in this essay show that, although the traditional dichotomist opposition between centre and periphery has undergone substantial redefinition, the significance of these concepts as value-loaded, culturally coded discursive entities still prevails. The manifestation of hybrid identities, explored in recent research on transnational diasporic communities, has not yet affected the rather static conceptions of core and periphery at work within Russian borders and on the Russian Internet. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Russian Internet nationallicence Russian village nationallicence Digital inequality nationallicence Virtual geography nationallicence Centre-periphery opposition nationallicence Russian bloggers nationallicence Studies in East European Thought Springer Netherlands 63/2(2011-05-01), 95-109 0925-9392 63:2<95 2011 63 11212 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-011-9137-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-011-9137-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schmidt Henrike Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies in East European Thought Springer Netherlands 63/2(2011-05-01), 95-109 0925-9392 63:2<95 2011 63 11212 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer