Chapter 1. Saara Ratilainen, Russian Digital Lifestyle Media and the Construction of Global Selves
Chapter 2. Brigit Beumers, Crossing Borders/Road Movies in Russia: The Road to Nowhere? Destinations in Recent Russian Cinema
Chapter 3. Galina Zvereva, Digital Storytelling on YouTube: The Geo-Political Factor in Russian Vernacular Regional Identities
Chapter 4. Andrei Tsygankov, Uses of Eurasia: the Kremlin, the Eurasian Union, and the Izborsky Club
Chapter 5. Marlène Laruelle, Digital Geopolitics Encapsulated. Geidar Dzhemal between Islamism, Occult Fascism and Eurasianism
Chapter 6. Sirke Mäkinen, Russia as an alternative model: Geopolitical Representations and Russia's Public Diplomacy-the Case of Rossotrudnichestvo
Chapter 7. Hanna Smith, Putin's Third Term and Russia as a Great Power
Chapter 8. Fabian Linde, Future Empire: State-Sponsored Eurasian Identity Promotion Among Russian Youth
Chapter 9. Per-Arne Bodin, Russian Geopolitical Discourse: On Pseudomorphosis, Phantom Pains and Simulacra
Chapter 10. Vlad Strukov, Digital Conservatism: Framing Patriotism in the Era of Global Journalism
Chapter 11. Ryhor Nizhnikau, Invisible Battlefield in Belarusian Media Space: Fighting "Russkiimir" from within?
Chapter 12. Alla Marchenko and Sergiy Kurbatov, Constructing the Enemy-Other in Social Media: Facebook as a Particular "Battlefield" During the Ukrainian Crisis
Chapter 13. Dirk Uffelmann, The Imagined Geolinguistics of Ukraine
Chapter 14. Greg Simons, Digital Eurasia: Post-Soviet Geopolitics in the Age of the New Media: Euromaidan and the Geopolitical Struggle for Influence on Ukraine via New Media
Chapter 15. Mikhail Suslov, The Russian World Concept in Online Debate during the Ukrainian Crisis
This bookfocuses 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.
Edited by Mikhail Suslov and Mark Bassin - Contributions by Mark Bassin; Brigit Beumers; Per-Arne Bodin; Sergiy Kurbatov; Marlene Laruelle; Fabian Linde; Sirke Mäkinen; Alla Marchenko; Ryhor Nizhnikau; Saara Ratilainen; Dr. Greg Simons; Hanna Smith; Vlad