Dear colleagues,
Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (https://digitalicons.org/) has published a new special issue focused on Belarus, which I heartily invite you to check out. Below is the TOC.
Best,
Tatiana Klepikova (on behalf of the DI Editorial Team).
Editorial: Belarus in the Focus of Academic Research: A Conceptual Reset Robert Zalesky (pseudonym) and Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University)
Analogue Dictatorship against Digital Multitude Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University)
Features and Effects of the Digital Technologies in the Belarusian Protest Volha Davydzik and Antanina Stebur (independent scholars)
Strategy of Language Resistance in Telegram during the Belarusian Civic Movement (Summer 2020–Winter 2021) Anton Saifullayeu (University of Warsaw)
Telegram in Belarusian Protests of 2020: Affective Tool for Populist’s Uprisings Gleb Koran (Gothenburg University)
Ugly Repressions, Protest’s Beauty and Emotional Community on Belarusian Political Instagram Andrei Vazyanau (European Humanities University)
The Confluence of Television and Money Flows in Belarusian Authoritarianism Andrei Gornykh (European Humanitarian University)
‘C’mon, Turn Swan Lake on’: Memories of the 1990s at the Belarusian Protests of 2020 Ksenia Robbe (University of Groningen) and Andrei Zavadski (TU Dortmund University)
Beyond the ‘Telegram Revolution’: Understanding the Role of Social Media in Belarus Protests Volha Kananovich (Appalachian State University)
The Unintended Female Revolution? Hanna Stähle (independent scholar)
The Protest Art of Antanina Slabodchykava Sasha Razor (University of California, Santa Barbara)
A Religious Factor in Belarus’ Protest: Mediation of the Political Crisis by the Church Regina Elsner (Münster University)
Battleground ‘Lukamol’: The Belarusian Republican Youth Union between a Rock and a Hard Place Kristiina Silvan (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
‘Dissenting Belarus’ through the eyes of Belarusian documentary filmmakers Diana El (pseudonym, independent cultural journalist)