Want to know everything about #digitalisation in #Russia, or about how to use digital sources and methods for studying Russia? Look no further: The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies is now published in *open access*! palgrave.com/gp/book/978303…
32 chapters, over 600 pages, written by more than 40 contributors. This joint project with @DariaGritsenko and Mikhail Kopotev has been a massive undertaking, but I could not be more proud of the end result.
Here comes a list of the topics covered in the volume. In the introduction, @DariaGritsenko, Mikhail Kopotev and I argue for the contribution area studies can make to the study of digitalisation.
In the 2nd chapter, I examine how digitalization has changed political communication, political campaigning and voting in Russia, as well as digital tools for political participation (so-called civic technologies) and civic engagement. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
The 3rd chapter, by @DariaGritsenko and @DrZherebtsov, covers the plans, reality and future outlook of e-government in Russia link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Chapter four, by Anna Lowry, looks at the digitalization of Russian economy and in particular Russia's Digital Economy Program link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
In the next chapter, @MMuravyeva and @AlexanderGurkov explore law and digitalization in Russia link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
The sixth chapter, written by @AlexanderGurkov, tells you all you need to know about personal data protection in Russia link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Chapter seven - 'Cybercrime and Punishment: Security, Information War, and the Future of Runet' - examines the securitization of the internet in Russia, written by @lisas_research link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Next up, Markku Lonkila, Larisa Shpakovskaya and Philip Torchinsky cover the topic of digital activism link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Chapter nine, by @v_strukov, looks into digital journalism in Russia link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
The tenth chapter is dedicated to how digitalization is changing Russian education and was written by @NelliPiattoeva and Galina Gurova link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Chapter eleven: religion. Great overview provided by Victor Khroul link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Next up is digitalization and gender - a great chapter by Olga Andreevskikh and @MMuravyeva link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
No 13: Digitalization of consumption in Russia, on online platforms, regulations and consumer behavior, by Olga Gurova and Daria Morozova link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
In the fourteenth chapter, @v_strukov traces the evolution of digital art produced in the Russian Federation link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Henrike Schmidt introduces you to digital literature in Russia in chapter 15 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
In the closing chapter of the first part of the book, @pustovek and @poli_kolozaridi offer a framework for the examination of Runet as a constantly changing socio-technical object link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
The second half of the book is on digital sources and methods. First up: Mikhail Kopotev, @ArtoMustajoki and Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya on using corpora in text-based Russian Studies link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
In chapter 18, Natalia Loukachevitch and Boris Dobrov introduce you to the RuThes Thesaurus and its use for Natural Language Processing link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Interested in social media-based research of interpersonal and group communication in Russia? Have a look at the chapter by @OlessiaKoltsova, Alexander Porshnev and Yadviga Sinyavskaya link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
In chapter 20, @alexei_golubev uncovers the political economy of historical knowledge involved in the digitization of Russian archives link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Next: Ekaterina Kalinina's study of the Prozhito archive of personal diaries link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Olga Parkhimovich and @DariaGritsenko cover open government data in Russia, from the main sources of open data and availability of key datasets, to examples of projects and interactions with government agencies based on open data. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Moving on to methods: Svetlana Bodrunova looks at how topic modeling techniques have been developed and employed by the Russian scholars, both for Russian and other languages, in chapter 23 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Topic modeling as method for Russian historical research is discussed by @MilaOiva, including a practical walkthrough of steps link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Topic modeling too simple for you? Try adding word embeddings, just as Andrey Indukaev does to study ideational change in Russian politics link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Or consider deep learning, as explained in the chapter by Ekaterina Artemova that focuses on deep learning applications to processing the Russian language link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Chapter 27 is dedicated to computational tools to detect plagiarism by the legendary Dissernet collective (written by Mikhail Kopotev, Andrey Rostovtsev and Mikhail Sokolov) link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Interested in automated sentiment analysis? Natalia Loukachevitch's chapter has got you covered link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Using social network analysis for studying Russian plays and Tolstoy’s War and Peace? @umblaetterer and @DaniilSkorinkin
show you how it's done #digitalhumanities link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
show you how it's done #digitalhumanities link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Chapter 30 demonstrates how social network analysis can be applied to study Russia’s hybrid politics and society, by @DrZherebtsov and Sergei Goussev link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Has #digitalhumanities revolutionised the study of Russian art yet? Just ask Reeta E. Kangas link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Last but certainly not least: Mykola Makhortykh tells you all there is to know about geospatial data analysis in Russia’s geoweb in chapter 32 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
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