Issue 1 (58)
| WEB-ETHNOGRAPHY AND CYBER-ETHNICITY | |||
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| Year | 2018 | Number | 1(58) |
| Pages | 100-108 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 39 | BBK | 63.500 |
| Authors | Golovnev Andrei V. Belorussova Svetlana Yu. Kisser Tatiana S. |
Topic | ETHNOHISTORY |
| Summary | The cyber-space is more than just the reflection of the real ethnic composition of society, its gives birth to a new cyber-ethnicity. Its study requires the use of the adequate web-ethnography which is not reduced to the use of a computer or other gadgets, but also involves physical observation of the ways in which virtual reality is being built into our everyday life. As much as possible it is necessary to study the real (off-line) and the virtual (on-line) ethnicity in their relationships and disparities — using real individuals and communities as the case studies. The most intensive cyberactivity is demonstrated by the communities, first of all the diasporas and the ethnic minorities, which try to compensate through the net the deficit of the real-life territorial proximity and communication. In fact, the Internet substitutes for one of the bases of ethnicity which was formerly known as the “unity of the territory”. The motivation for the representation and the estimable positioning of one's own culture in the web-environment gives rise to a kind of ethno-Renaissance (with the elements of ethno-competition). The Internet offers a convenient platform for the evolution of ethnicity at the expense of the individual ethno-projects. The described herein cases of the Nagaibak and the Germans demonstrate that the intensive cyber-activity is characteristic for the people who left their native regions and are trying to compensate for their real-life remoteness from them with the virtual activity. These people, estranged from their native communities, sometimes even play the role of the apparent ethnicity leaders, acting however not in the “distant emigration”, but in the momentarily and in a neighborly way accessible Web-environment. | ||
| Keywords | cyber-ethnicity, web-ethnography, space of communication, identity, Nagaibaks, Russian Germans | ||
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