Nomadising in the online space. Representation of the Evenk culture on VKontakte | Sibirskie Istoricheskie Issledovaniia – Siberian Historical Research. 2014. № 2.

Nomadising in the online space. Representation of the Evenk culture on VKontakte

The Internet has become an inevitable part of social life. Some researchers even prefer to use a term "online habitat" referring to everyday people's activity on the web. Over the last decade, in Russia there has been a significant growth in the number of ethnically-oriented online communities of the indigenous peoples of the North as a result of the Internet penetration into the most remote settlements (though the most active members of them are still constituted mainly by urban population). Their participants discuss a wide range of questions concerning their culture and language. The author believes that such online communities make it possible for their members to construct more effectively new forms of cultural authenticity and, therefore, relatively quickly spread them among the wide audience. This article is devoted to one of those communities, a group named "The Evenks" on VKontakte. It considers how the group's participants represent the contemporary Evenk culture by using information technologies. However, the main problem is that an idea of the use of the Internet as a means of promotion of the Evenk culture comes into contradiction with the widely-spread view on technologies as a threat to "traditionality", traditional way of life, and even maintenance of the Evenk language. Discussions of the community's members surrounding this problem, their attempts to find the way out of it, as well as their thoughts on the Evenk culture's future constitute the main focus of the article. The material was collected by the author though participant observation, interview, questionnaire survey and content-analysis during her "fieldwork" in the online community in 2013-2014.

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антропология интернет-сообществ, культурная аутентичность, конструктивизм, информационные технологии, эвенки, Evenks, Information Technologies, Cultural Authenticity, Constructivism, Cyber Anthropology

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Mamontova Nadezhda Aleksandrovna	University of Helsinki (Finland)	nadezhda.mamontova@helsinki.fi

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